Modal launches Endpoint Candidates to evaluate and promote inference endpoints

Modal has released Endpoint Candidates, generally available for all workspaces, letting users stage alternative deployments for Dedicated Endpoints that mirror a sample of production traffic while Modal runs the infrastructure. Users can inspect latency and throughput metrics, run benchmarks, and test output quality via each Candidate's own URL, then promote it to production from the dashboard. Mirrored requests are best-effort and billed at standard Modal compute pricing.