Modal added a $0.09/GiB-month charge for Volumes above 1 TiB
Volumes storage is billed at $0.09 per GiB per month above 1 TiB free. The tracker lists it as a new charge; earlier Volumes pricing is not logged.
What changed
- Price increase, Jul 3, 2026
- Before: No Volumes storage charge logged (tracker lists it as new)
- After: $0.09/GiB/month above 1 TiB free
- Existing customers: Not logged
Cheaper alternatives to Modal
At 100 H100 hours a month, Modal costs $434.93/mo. 1 GPU cloud platform costs less:
- Runpod: $199/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.), covers 92% of Modal; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes (partly), Batch jobs and queues (partly), Compliance and data residency (partly)
Modal alternatives: 4 GPU cloud platforms compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for Modal: Modal.