Modal added a $0.04/GiB egress fee above free monthly allowances
Network egress is billed at $0.04 per GiB above the monthly free allowance: 1 TiB (Starter), 10 TiB (Team) and 100 TiB (Enterprise).
What changed
- Price increase, Oct 5, 2026
- Before: No per-GiB egress fee logged (tracker lists it as new)
- After: $0.04/GiB above 1 TiB (Starter), 10 TiB (Team), 100 TiB (Enterprise) per month
- Existing customers: Not logged beyond Starter gaining 1 TiB/mo of free egress in the same change
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.