What is Modal?
Serverless cloud platform for running inference, training, batch processing, and sandboxes with sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, and integrated observability.
Modal pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based: pay for GPU/CPU time by the second. No charges for idle resources. Starting plans $0 (Starter) or $250/month (Team).
Starter
FreeBuilt for small teams and independent developers
- containers
- 100
- gpu_concurrency
- 10
- workspace_seats
- 3
- free_credits_monthly
- $30/month
- $30/month free credits
- 3 workspace seats
- 100 containers
- 10 GPU concurrency
- Scheduled and Web Functions (limited)
- Real-time metrics and logs
- Region selection
Team
Built for startups and larger organizations
- cron_jobs
- unlimited
- containers
- 5000
- gpu_concurrency
- 50
- free_credits_monthly
- $100/month
- Unlimited seats
- 5000 containers
- 50 GPU concurrency
- Unlimited Scheduled Functions
- Custom domains
- Static IP proxy
- Deployment rollbacks
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations prioritizing security, support, and scale
- Volume-based discounts
- Unlimited seats
- Higher GPU concurrency
- Embedded ML engineering services
- Support via private Slack
- Audit logs
- Okta SSO
- HIPAA compliance
What Modal does
The capabilities that matter for serverless & edge platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Execution substrate
- Container
- Language / runtime breadth
- Python
- Runs at global edge PoPs
- ✓
- Scale to zero
- ✓
- Cold-start profile
- Low
- Max execution duration
- -
- Event source breadth
- HTTP, cron/scheduled
- HTTP endpoint trigger
- ✓
- Cron / scheduled invocations
- ✓
- Durable state / workflow primitive
- ✓
- Bring-your-own runtime / container
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
- ✓
- CLI + IaC / framework support
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- AWS Marketplace
- GCP Marketplace
Modal alternatives
Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Vercel FunctionsRun server-side code without managing serverslow · 49%
- Deno DeployOne simple platform for all your JavaScript and TypeScript applicationslow · 45%
- Cloudflare WorkersDeploy serverless functions globally in secondslow · 30%
- Serverless FrameworkDeploy APIs, scheduled tasks, workflows and event-driven apps to AWS Lambda easilymedium · 50%
- Vercel Edge Runtimemedium · 55%
- FissionOpen Source Kubernetes-native Serverless Frameworklow · 24%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Modal, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 50 | 22.00 | 1100.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 12.00 | 1099.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 16.00 | 219.5 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","triggers":"HTTP, cron/scheduled","languages":"Python","cold_start":"low","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"durable_state":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"custom_runtime":true,"scheduled_cron":true,"edge_distributed":true,"runtime_substrate":"container","observability_builtin":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |