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Modal alternatives

At 100 H100 hours a month, Modal costs $434.93 a month. 1 GPU cloud platform costs less, from $199 (Runpod). The closest match, Runpod, covers 92% of what Modal does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.

What Modal does

Core: GPU instances, Serverless GPU functions, Dedicated model endpoints, Serverless backend functions.

Important: H200 and Blackwell GPUs, Agent code sandboxes, Batch jobs and queues, Bring your own container, Persistent volumes, API, CLI and SDKs (partly), Autoscaling, Workers and cron jobs, AI app tooling.

Also has: Low-cost 24 GB GPUs (partly), Multi-GPU nodes and clusters (partly), Public model and app hub (partly), Managed fine-tuning (partly), Hosted notebooks and IDEs (partly), Sandbox snapshots and long sessions (partly), Spot and reserved discounts (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly), Compliance and data residency, Static site hosting (partly), Full-stack framework support (partly), Git push deploys (partly), Preview deployments (partly), Always-on app servers (partly), Global multi-region compute (partly), Root-access virtual servers (partly), Templates and add-on marketplace (partly), SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance (partly).

Alternatives to Modal at 100 H100 hours a month, best match first

  • Runpod: $199/mo Cheapest H100 is Community Cloud; Secure is $289/mo (Pay-as-you-go Pods, Community Cloud: 1x H100 PCIe 80 GB at $1.99/hr for 100 hours a month, with no plan fee or credit.). It covers 92% of Modal; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes (partly), Batch jobs and queues (partly), Compliance and data residency (partly). Free plan: none. Last price hike: Sep 2026.
  • Hugging Face: $450/mo Ref: 1x H100 on Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hr (Free account, no subscription; 1x H100 80GB on Inference Endpoints, billed hourly.). It covers 72% of Modal; missing or partial: GPU instances (partly), Serverless GPU functions (partly), Agent code sandboxes (partly), Batch jobs and queues (partly), Persistent volumes (partly). Free plan: Free Hub sign-up; CPU Basic Spaces and ZeroGPU quota at no charge (no plan card on the page)..
  • Replicate: $549/mo Usage-based; no plan fee. Endpoint assumes L40S (Pay-as-you-go, 1x Nvidia H100 GPU at $5.49/hr). It covers 53% of Modal; missing or partial: GPU instances, H200 and Blackwell GPUs (partly), Agent code sandboxes, Batch jobs and queues (partly), Bring your own container (partly). Free plan: none.
  • E2B: not offered. It covers 37% of Modal; missing or partial: GPU instances, Serverless GPU functions, Dedicated model endpoints, H200 and Blackwell GPUs, Batch jobs and queues (partly). Free plan: Hobby: $0/mo with 20 concurrent sandboxes, 1-hour sessions, 10 GiB storage and a one-time $100 credit (the page does not say what follows the credit).. Last price hike: Jan 2026.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Modal

  • Vercel (Hosting): covers 43% of Modal; missing or partial: GPU instances, Serverless GPU functions, Dedicated model endpoints (partly), H200 and Blackwell GPUs, Batch jobs and queues (partly)
  • Cloudflare Workers (Hosting): covers 40% of Modal; missing or partial: GPU instances, Serverless GPU functions, Dedicated model endpoints (partly), H200 and Blackwell GPUs, Agent code sandboxes (partly)

Prices at every size

  • Modal: 100 H100 hours a month $434.93/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $715.62/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month $207.96/mo (Net of $30/mo Starter credit; preemptible list rates)
  • Runpod: 100 H100 hours a month $199/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $116.80/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Cheapest H100 is Community Cloud; Secure is $289/mo)
  • Hugging Face: 100 H100 hours a month $450/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $584/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Ref: 1x H100 on Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hr)
  • Replicate: 100 H100 hours a month $549/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $2,562.30/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Usage-based; no plan fee. Endpoint assumes L40S)
  • E2B: 100 H100 hours a month not offered, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint not offered, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month $165.60/mo (CPU-only sandboxes: no H100 or GPU endpoint offered)

Prices are USD per month at on-demand, non-interruptible rates for three fixed workloads: 100 hours on one H100 80 GB GPU, one 24 GB-class GPU serving a model 24/7 (730 hours), and 1,000 hours of 2 vCPU / 4 GB agent sandboxes. They include required plan fees and separately billed CPU and RAM, net of recurring monthly credits; a dash means the product does not do that job.

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