Operator · United States
Modal
US serverless compute platform: Python-defined functions, sandboxes and endpoints run in containers on NVIDIA GPUs, billed per second for GPU, CPU and memory separately.
GPU types11with a current offer
Current offers3339 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from—per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price—cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries823 named regions
Trust Score v0.175/100
- Company & track record47
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals55
- Security & compliance73
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
47 / 100
| Founding year published | not disclosedmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | United Statesmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | not disclosedmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Private; raised over 466M USD (General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux, Amplify, Creandum). Offices New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, Londonmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacitymodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 23 regions or countriesmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)modal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | metered from 1 Oct 2026: 0.04 USD/GiB beyond 1 TiB (Starter), 10 TiB (Team), 100 TiB (Enterprise) per billing cyclemodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Not applicable (serverless, scales to zero); containers are billed while alive; Volumes billed at 0.09 USD/GiB-month beyond 1 TiB freemodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | shared/NAT; static IP proxy on Team plan and abovemodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
55 / 100
| Status page | https://status.modal.com/modal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | not disclosedmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | Status page 90-day: Functions 100%, Sandboxes 99.989%, Web Functions 99.982%modal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
73 / 100
| SOC 2 | Type IImodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 8 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | not disclosedmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | BAA on Enterprise planmodal.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Prices by GPU · 11 GPU types with a current offerWhat Modal charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | no on-demand | $3.17 | — | 1 | serverless | H100 prices |
| A100 80GB | no on-demand | $1.92 | — | 1 | serverless | A100 80GB prices |
| H200 | no on-demand | $4.80 | — | 1 | serverless | H200 prices |
| RTX PRO 6000 | no on-demand | $2.15 | — | 1 | serverless | RTX PRO 6000 prices |
| L40S | no on-demand | $1.24 | — | 1 | serverless | L40S prices |
| B200 | no on-demand | $7.50 | — | 1 | serverless | B200 prices |
| B300 | no on-demand | $8.99 | — | 1 | serverless | B300 prices |
| T4 | no on-demand | $0.49 | — | 1 | serverless | T4 prices |
| L4 | no on-demand | $0.80 | — | 1 | serverless | L4 prices |
| A100 40GB | no on-demand | $1.83 | — | 1 | serverless | A100 40GB prices |
| A10 | no on-demand | $1.35 | — | 1 | serverless | A10 prices |
All offers · 39 readings on fileEvery Modal offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4 | 1× T4 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $0.59 | $0.59 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 1× L4 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $0.80 | $0.80 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A10 | 1× A10 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $1.10 | $1.10 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 1× L40S | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $1.95 | $1.95 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $2.10 | $2.10 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $2.50 | $2.50 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 1× RTX PRO 6000 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $3.03 | $3.03 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 1× H100 SXM | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $3.95 | $3.95 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H200 | 1× H200 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $4.54 | $4.54 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B200 | 1× B200 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $6.25 | $6.25 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B300 | 1× B300 | Serverless | — | Stock unknown | $7.10 | $7.10 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
11 fresh offers · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per second
- Minimum charge
- No minimum usage-time increments; CPU and memory billed on the higher of request or usage, minimum 0.125 core per container
- Stopped instance
- Not applicable (serverless, scales to zero); containers are billed while alive; Volumes billed at 0.09 USD/GiB-month beyond 1 TiB free
- Egress
- metered from 1 Oct 2026: 0.04 USD/GiB beyond 1 TiB (Starter), 10 TiB (Team), 100 TiB (Enterprise) per billing cycle
- Public IPv4
- shared/NAT; static IP proxy on Team plan and above
- Billing model
- postpaid invoice
- Minimum deposit
- not published
- Free credits
- 30 USD/month free compute on Starter (0 USD plan), 100 USD/month on Team (250 USD/month plan); startup credit grants; up to 10k USD for academics
Account
- Payment
- card · crypto (not published)
- Sign-up
- email, card
- Identity check
- card verification
- Support
- community slack, email
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- not published
- Status page
- status.modal.com ↗
- Published uptime
- Status page 90-day: Functions 100%, Sandboxes 99.989%, Web Functions 99.982%
Infrastructure
- Regions
23 named regions in 8 countries
us (us-east · us-central · us-south · us-west) (United States) · eu (eu-west · eu-north · eu-south) (European Economic Area) · ap (ap-northeast · ap-southeast · ap-south · ap-melbourne) (Asia-Pacific) · jp (Japan) · au (Australia) · uk (United Kingdom) · ca (Canada) · me (Middle East) · sa (South America) · af (Africa) · mx (Mexico) · routing us-east (United States) · routing us-west (United States) · routing eu-west (Ireland) · routing ap-south (India)- Countries
- United States, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, India
- Platform
- API, CLI, serverless, Jupyter, custom Docker images, persistent volumes, snapshots, spot or interruptibleSDK: python; JavaScript and Go SDKs in betaKubernetes: noInterconnect: RDMA 3200 Gbps (6400 Gbps B300) via RoCE, InfiniBand or EFA in multi-node clustersClusters: @modal.clustered multi-node up to 256 devices, full 8-GPU nodes only; multi-node training noted as private beta in GPU guide
- Storage
- volume · 0.09 USD/GiB-month · 1 TiB/month includedephemeral · billed via memory: disk request raises memory request at 20:1 · Default disk quota 512 GiB, max 3 TiB
- Migration out
- Code is written against the Modal Python SDK (decorators, Volumes, Dicts, Queues), so moving off requires rewriting orchestration. Container images are standard (from_registry, Dockerfile) and Volume data can be downloaded with the CLI; egress charges apply beyond the allowance.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- not published
- HIPAA
- BAA on Enterprise plan
- GDPR / DPA
- not published
- Other
- Stripe (PCI Level 1) processes cards; gVisor isolation; private HackerOne bug bounty
- Legal entity
- not published
- Funding
- Private; raised over 466M USD (General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux, Amplify, Creandum). Offices New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, London
Read on the provider's own pages · 12 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Modal, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Per-second billing with scale to zero and no minimum time increment
- 11 NVIDIA GPU types including B300, B200, H200 and RTX PRO 6000
- Up to 8 GPUs per container and multi-node clusters up to 256 GPUs with 3200-6400 Gbps RDMA
- 30 USD/month free compute on the free Starter plan
- SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise
- Python SDK defines image, hardware and scaling in code; region selection across US, EU, APAC, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia and more
Weaknesses
- GPU rate excludes CPU and RAM, which are metered separately
- H100 at 3.9492 USD/GPU-h before CPU/RAM, and 1.15x to 1.75x more if a region is pinned
- GPU Functions cannot be made non-preemptible; all GPU work is subject to preemption
- Egress metered from 1 Oct 2026 at 0.04 USD/GiB beyond the plan allowance
- Postpaid card billing; invoice and bank transfer only for Enterprise with commitment
- No SSH-accessible VM; workloads must fit the Modal function/sandbox container model
Ideal for
- Python teams running spiky inference that benefits from scale-to-zero
- Batch jobs and code sandboxes that need thousands of short-lived containers
- Startups and researchers using free monthly credits or grants
Not published
- A100 80GB form factor (SXM or PCIe) not published
- VRAM for B300, B200, H100, RTX PRO 6000, A10, L4, T4 not stated on pages read
- Formal SLA not found
- Founding year, legal entity and HQ not stated on pages read
- Crypto and PayPal not documented
- Volume discounts and committed rates are Enterprise contact-sales
Observations
Per-second and per-hour GPU prices visible without account (toggle)
Region multipliers (1.15x-1.75x) and non-preemptible 3x multiplier shown in plan comparison table
FAQ answers are not rendered in the page HTML
Pages read
- modal.com/pricing — GPU per-second and per-hour rates, CPU/memory, volumes, plans, region and non-preemptible multipliers
- modal.com/docs/guide/gpu — GPU list, max GPUs per container, SXM, auto-upgrades, payment method required
- modal.com/docs/guide/billing — Monthly postpaid billing, Stripe, Enterprise invoicing and bank transfer
- modal.com/docs/guide/network-egress-billing — Egress pricing from 1 Oct 2026
- modal.com/docs/guide/resources — Default requests, request vs usage billing, disk
- modal.com/docs/guide/region-selection — Regions, multipliers, routing regions
- modal.com/docs/guide/preemption — GPU functions always preemptible
- modal.com/docs/guide/multi-node-clusters — RDMA bandwidth, 256 devices
- modal.com/docs/guide/security — SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, Stripe
- modal.com/company — Funding, offices
- status.modal.com/ — Status page uptime
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2088132/000208813226000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml — Headquarters
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How does Modal bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Minimum charge: No minimum usage-time increments; CPU and memory billed on the higher of request or usage, minimum 0.125 core per container Stopped instance: Not applicable (serverless, scales to zero); containers are billed while alive; Volumes billed at 0.09 USD/GiB-month beyond 1 TiB free
How trustworthy is Modal?
Its Trust Score is 75/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency. Weaker on company & track record, reliability signals. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Modal's data centres?
23 named regions in 8 countries: United States, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, India.
How do you pay Modal, and are there credits?
Payment by card, crypto. Free credits: 30 USD/month free compute on Starter (0 USD plan), 100 USD/month on Team (250 USD/month plan); startup credit grants; up to 10k USD for academics. Identity check: card verification.