How much does Modal cost?

Modal publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Modal have a free plan?

Yes. The Starter tier costs nothing and covers 3 seats, 100 containers, 10 gpu concurrency. Paying starts at $250/month for Team.

What is the difference between Starter and Team on Modal?

Team costs $250/month against Free, and adds unlimited seats, 5,000 containers, 50 gpu concurrency, unlimited cron jobs.

Is the Enterprise plan on Modal worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom seats, containers, and gpu concurrency. It costs On request against $250/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which ai tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside Modal have a free tier: Rev, AutoGen, Vellum.

Does Modal charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Modal prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Modal against before paying?

The closest ai tools in this directory are Avathon, C3 AI Suite, Rev, Veritone. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Modal covering price, platforms and features.

AI · pricing

Modal pricing

Modal publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Modal pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Modal plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Modal pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter	Free	5	Entry tier
Team	$250/month	5	+$250/month, 5 more features
Enterprise	On request	1	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Starter

Free

The entry tier. It covers 3 seats, 100 containers, 10 gpu concurrency, 5 deployed cron jobs, 30 usd/month free credits.

Team

$250/month

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Unlimited seats
5,000 containers
50 GPU concurrency
Unlimited cron jobs
100 USD/month free credits

Enterprise

On request

Over Team, this tier adds:

Custom seats, containers, and GPU concurrency

Where Modal stops being free

Starter, Free

3 seats
100 containers
10 GPU concurrency
5 deployed cron jobs
30 USD/month free credits

Team, $250/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited seats
5,000 containers
50 GPU concurrency
Unlimited cron jobs
100 USD/month free credits

What the product covers

The full Modal feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Serverless GPUs
Python functions
Auto-scaling
Fast cold starts

Integrations

Python SDK
GitHub Actions
Cloud storage

Platform

Cloud support
Api support

People bring Modal in for running serverless gpu workloads for model inference and training, executing python functions on cloud compute without managing servers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Modal are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in AI

Too few ai tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Modal entry price against other AI tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Modal (this page)	Free	usage-based	-
Avathon	On request	quote	-	vs Modal
C3 AI Suite	On request	quote	-	vs Modal
Rev	Free	Per minute for human work, per seat per month for AI	-	vs Modal
Veritone	On request	quote	-	vs Modal
Verbit	$24/month	Per month by transcription hours	-	vs Modal
LatchBio	On request	quote	-	vs Modal

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Modal badges page.

Before you pay for Modal

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Modal runs on cloud, api, and is published by Modal Labs of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Modal review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools.

Modal pricing on the vendor's own site

Modal pricing questions

How much does Modal cost?: Modal publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Modal have a free plan?: Yes. The Starter tier costs nothing and covers 3 seats, 100 containers, 10 gpu concurrency. Paying starts at $250/month for Team.
What is the difference between Starter and Team on Modal?: Team costs $250/month against Free, and adds unlimited seats, 5,000 containers, 50 gpu concurrency, unlimited cron jobs.
Is the Enterprise plan on Modal worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom seats, containers, and gpu concurrency. It costs On request against $250/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which ai tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside Modal have a free tier: Rev, AutoGen, Vellum.
What am I actually paying for with Modal?: The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running serverless gpu workloads for model inference and training, executing python functions on cloud compute without managing servers.
Does Modal charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Modal prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Modal against before paying?: The closest ai tools in this directory are Avathon, C3 AI Suite, Rev, Veritone. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Modal covering price, platforms and features.