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modal.com · Model hosting and inference
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Serverless GPU compute metered by the second, sold as a monthly platform fee plus whatever the containers actually burn.

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Entry paid plan$0 a month on Starter — the plan carries no fee at all, and $30 of monthly compute is included before anything is billed. The first plan with a monthly fee is Team at $250.
Free tierYes
CategoryModel hosting and inference

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 13 criteria comparedSources last checked

Modal pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$0 a month on Starter — the plan carries no fee at all, and $30 of monthly compute is included before anything is billed source ↗
Pricing model
A platform fee plus metered compute, and the fee buys a compute allowance rather than access source ↗
What the free plan includes
Get started with $30 / month free compute Get Started source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Modal pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Bursty, self-deployed inference where the bill should follow the work. Compute meters per second and per CPU core — a physical core is $0.0000131 per core-second with a 0.125-core minimum — and the H100 hour is $3.95, the cheapest of the four here that publishes one.

Consider something else if…

You want a large GPU named with its memory before committing, or support without an Enterprise contract. The page lists B200 and B300 but states VRAM only for the A100 rows, so the ceiling is unpublished; SOC 2, HIPAA, RBAC and SSO are all Enterprise.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Modal pricing

5 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree credit — $30 of compute a month on Starter, recurring rather than one-off
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What the free plan includesGet started with $30 / month free compute Get Started
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Entry paid plan$0 a month on Starter — the plan carries no fee at all, and $30 of monthly compute is included before anything is billed. The first plan with a monthly fee is Team at $250.
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Pricing modelA platform fee plus metered compute, and the fee buys a compute allowance rather than access. Starter is $0 a month and includes $30 of compute; Team is $250 a month and includes $100. Compute is billed per second on top of both.
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Auth

1 criteria
Audit logsPer Enterprise contract (see Audit logs )
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GPU

3 criteria
H100 SXM, per GPU-hour$3.95 per hour for an Nvidia H100 SXM5, published as $0.001097 per second. Modal's own worked example on the same page prices a fleet at $3.95 per GPU-hour.
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Cheapest GPU, per hour$0.59 per hour for an Nvidia T4, published as $0.000164 per second — the cheapest GPU on the resource table.
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Billing granularityPer second, and per CPU core rather than per instance: a physical core is $0.0000131 per core per second with a minimum of 0.125 cores.
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Support

1 criteria
Support on entry paid planA community Slack on the lower plans; private Slack support and embedded ML engineering services are Enterprise. Support is a plan feature here rather than something every tier carries.
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Compliance

3 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 compliance is listed as an Enterprise-plan feature on the pricing page, alongside HIPAA compatibility, audit logs, RBAC and SSO. No report or certificate is linked from the page itself.
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HIPAAHIPAA compatibility is listed as an Enterprise-plan feature, grouped with SOC 2 and audit logs. The page says compatibility rather than a signed BAA.
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Encryption at restAll user data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
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Modal pricing questions

How much does Modal cost?

$0 a month on Starter — the plan carries no fee at all, and $30 of monthly compute is included before anything is billed. The first plan with a monthly fee is Team at $250.

Plans and Pricing — Modal · read

How does Modal charge?

A platform fee plus metered compute, and the fee buys a compute allowance rather than access. Starter is $0 a month and includes $30 of compute; Team is $250 a month and includes $100. Compute is billed per second on top of both.

Plans and Pricing — Modal · read

Does Modal have a free tier?

Yes. Get started with $30 / month free compute Get Started.

Plan Pricing | Modal · read

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