Yes, Modal has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes $30 / month free compute credits, up to 3 workspace seats, and 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency.
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
This free tier includes $30 in compute credits each month, so the recurring value is the credit amount itself rather than a paid-plan equivalent. It also has real usable limits - 3 seats, 100 containers, and 10 GPU concurrency - so it feels like a solid starter tier, but a credit card is still required to create the account and the higher-end Team plan adds much larger quotas and unlimited seats.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- $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
- containers
- 100
- GPU concurrency
- 10
- log retention
- 1 day
- deployed crons
- 5
- region selection
- 1.5 - 1.75x base prices
- 3 workspace seats included
- 100 containers
- 10 GPU concurrency
- Scheduled and Web Functions (limited)
- Real-time metrics and logs
- Region selection
- SOC 2 compliance
- Access to Modal Community Slack
Team
- workspace seats
- Unlimited
- containers
- 5000
- GPU concurrency
- 50
- log retention
- 30 days
- deployed crons
- Unlimited
- deployment rollbacks
- Custom
- Unlimited seats
- 100 / month free credits
- 5000 containers
- 50 GPU concurrency
- Unlimited Scheduled Functions
- Custom domains
- Static IP proxy
- Deployment rollbacks
Enterprise
- workspace seats
- Unlimited
- GPU concurrency
- Higher
- support
- Private Slack
- security
- Audit logs, Okta SSO, HIPAA
- Volume-based discounts
- Unlimited seats
- Higher GPU concurrency
- Embedded ML engineering services
- Environment-level budgets
- Support via private Slack
- Audit logs
- Okta SSO and HIPAA
Pricing extracted from Modal's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Modal free forever?
Yes. Modal has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Modal's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Modal's cheapest paid plan is Team at $250 / month.
