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What Modal really costs at your usage

Modal priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — no free tier — paid from day one. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 500 H100-class GPU-hours/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Modal ranks first for these inputs at 50% fit and a StackSays-estimated $1975.00/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

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GPU-hours / month (H100-80GB class)busy compute hours, not wall-clock; on a VM vendor (Lambda) this becomes provisioned hoursBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the GPU cloud layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Modalfit 50% · est $1,975.00+/mo

Per-second serverless containers with the widest published GPU menu (T4 through B300)

Modalfit 50%

$1,975.00+/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 500 H100-class GPU-hours/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the GPU cloud slot, Modal leads at 50% fit and $1975.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: batteries included (Bundles per-second billing, recurring free credits — fewer services to glue at team size 1); scale-to-zero (Serverless — you pay busy time only, idle costs nothing).

Honest weak spot of the pick: ~$1975/mo is 3950% of your $50/mo budget — over it.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Modal scores 50%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$1975/mo is 3950% of your $50/mo budget — over it-30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles per-second billing, recurring free credits — fewer services to glue at team size 1+12

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Standard containers move easily, but queueing/autoscale config is platform-specific+0.4

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool+8

Scale-to-zero (weight 10, our estimate) — Serverless — you pay busy time only, idle costs nothing+10

Total (lines sum exactly)0.4

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(0.4 + 64) / 128 = 50%

How the $1,975.00+/mo estimate is calculated

H100 GPU-hours overage — 500hours over 0hours included × $3.95/hours$1,975.00

Note — $0.001097/sec = $3.95/hour (our ×3600 conversion); CPU ($0.0000131/core-sec) and memory ($0.00000222/GiB-sec) metered ON TOP — effective cost runs higher; A100-80GB $2.50/hr, T4 $0.59/hr$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$1,975.00

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$1,975.00/mo · H100 80GB serverless

Free-tier statusNo free tier — paid from the first unit

Biggest unpriced/uncertain variable$0.001097/sec = $3.95/hour (our ×3600 conversion); CPU ($0.0000131/core-sec) and memory ($0.00000222/GiB-sec) metered ON TOP — effective cost runs higher; A100-80GB $2.50/hr, T4 $0.59/hr

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Modal	No free tier	Pay-as-you-go — $0.001097/sec = $3.95/hour (our ×3600 conversion); CPU ($0.0000131/core-sec) and memory ($0.00000222/GiB-sec) metered ON TOP — effective cost runs higher; A100-80GB $2.50/hr, T4 $0.59/hr	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Modal	Modal pricing	2026-07-17

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