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Modal pricing (2026)

What Modal costs, summarised from its own pricing materials. Every figure below links to the vendor's source.

Pricing summary

Starter is $0 base + $30/mo of free compute credits; Team is $250/mo base + $100/mo credits; Enterprise is custom. Usage is per-second (e.g. H100 GPU at $0.001097/s, CPU at $0.0000131/core/s).

Vendor pricing page ↗ · accessed 2026-07-01

Hosting model
Fully managed, multi-cloud serverless with a proprietary container runtime and scheduler that autoscales from zero to 1000+ GPUs.source ↗
Open source (free to self-host)
Nosource ↗

The vendor's pricing text references a free tier or $0 option — see the exact wording above.

How Modal pricing compares

Peer platforms, each figure sourced or marked unverified — factual only, no ranking implied

PlatformPricing
Modal

Hosting

Starter is $0 base + $30/mo of free compute credits; Team is $250/mo base + $100/mo credits; Enterprise is custom. Usage is per-second (e.g. H100 GPU at $0.001097/s, CPU at $0.0000131/core/s).source ↗
E2B

Hosting

Hobby (free) includes a one-time $100 usage credit, up to 1-hour sessions, and 20 concurrent sandboxes. Pro is $150/mo + usage (24-hour sessions, up to 100 concurrent). Usage is per-second (e.g. 1 vCPU at $0.000014/s).source ↗
Fly.io Machines

Hosting

Usage-based, billed per second while running (e.g. shared-cpu-1x/256MB roughly $2/mo; performance-1x/2GB roughly $32/mo). Volumes are $0.15/GB-month and egress varies by region. No standing free tier is advertised.source ↗
Cloudflare Agents

Framework

No separate charge for the SDK — you pay for underlying Workers and Durable Objects. Workers has a free tier (100k req/day) and a paid plan from $5/mo; Durable Objects bills requests, duration, and (from Jan 2026) SQLite storage.source ↗

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