About
Modal is a serverless AI infrastructure platform for running inference, training, batch processing, sandboxes, notebooks, and other Python workloads. It provides sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, GPU and CPU compute, built-in storage, logging, metrics, secrets, and multi-cloud capacity scheduling.
The platform is aimed at developers and ML teams that want to deploy code without managing servers or container orchestration. The pricing page shows a Starter plan with $30 per month in free compute credits, 3 workspace seats, 100 containers, 10 GPU concurrency, limited crons and web endpoints, and 1 day of log retention; higher tiers add more seats, credits, and limits.
- $30 monthly compute credits
- 3 workspace seats included
- 100 containers on Starter
- 10 GPU concurrency limit
- 1 day log retention
- Limited crons and web endpoints
- Region selection on Starter
Free Tier Value
Starter is $0 + compute, and the free tier gives $30/month in compute credits plus the same core starter limits (3 seats, 100 containers, 10 GPU concurrency, limited crons/endpoints, metrics/logs, region selection). Since the free tier is essentially the Starter plan with the recurring compute allowance included, its practical value is about $30/month; relative to the $250 Team plan, that is only ~12% of Team, so the free tier is generous but still clearly capped. The credit-card friction is low because the plan is usable without paying, but the quotas keep it well below a paid team tier.
What's included in the free tier
- $30 / month free compute credits.
- Up to 3 workspace seats.
- 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency.
- Limited crons and web endpoints.
- Real-time metrics and logs.
- Region selection.
See Modal pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- workspace seats
- 3
- included compute credits
- $30/month
- containers
- 100
- GPU concurrency
- 10
- crons
- limited
- web endpoints
- limited
- 3 workspace seats included
- $30 / month free compute credits
- 100 containers
- 10 GPU concurrency
- Limited crons and web endpoints
- Real-time metrics and logs
- Region selection
Team
- workspace seats
- unlimited
- included compute credits
- $100/month
- containers
- 1000
- GPU concurrency
- 50
- Unlimited seats
- $100 / month free credits
- 1000 containers
- 50 GPU concurrency
- Unlimited crons and web endpoints
- Custom domains
- Static IP proxy
- Deployment rollbacks
Enterprise
- workspace seats
- unlimited
- Volume-based discounts
- Unlimited seats
- Higher GPU concurrency
- Embedded ML engineering services
- Support via private Slack
- Audit logs
- Okta SSO
- HIPAA
Pricing extracted from Modal's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
