Modal vs AWS

Round by round

1. Round 1The cheapest H100Modal wins
   Modal8/10

   $3.95

   H100 at $0.001097 a second, about $3.95 an hour

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS5/10

   $6.88

   p5.48xlarge $55.04/hr for 8x H100 = $6.88 per GPU-hour, on-demand, US East

   • $5.19, against $3.95

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

2. Round 2The cheapest A100Modal wins
   Modal8/10

   $2.10

   A100 40GB at $0.000583 a second, about $2.10 an hour

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS5/10

   $2.74

   worked out from $21.958 an hour for a p4d.24xlarge with eight A100s

   • $2.74, against $2.10

   Source: instances.vantage.sh ↗

   Modal wins this round on independent review-site data, not on its own claims.

3. Round 3The cheapest H200Modal wins
   Modal8/10

   $4.54

   H200 at $0.001261 a second

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS5/10

   Not stated

   Claimed '$47.76/hr = $5.97/GPU' unverifiable; no such price published.

   • $5.97, against $4.54

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

4. Round 4What it costs to get your data outTie
   Modal7/10

   1 TiB free, then $0.04 per GiB

   network egress is billed from 1 October 2026; the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a cycle

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS7/10

   First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB

   data transfer out to the internet

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

5. Round 5How precisely you are billedTie
   Modal7/10

   Billed by the second

   with nothing charged for idle time

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS7/10

   Per-second, 60-second minimum

   on-demand instances are billed by the hour or second

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

6. Round 6The cheapest L4Modal wins
   Modal8/10

   $0.80/hr ($0.000222/sec)

   serverless pay-per-second GPU pricing

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS5/10

   $0.80/hr (g6.xlarge)

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   • $0.80/hr (g6.xlarge), against $0.80/hr ($0.000222/sec)

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the published sources say.

7. Round 7The cheapest L40SAWS wins
   Modal5/10

   $1.95/hr ($0.000542/sec)

   serverless pay-per-second GPU pricing

   • $1.95/hr ($0.000542/sec), against $1.86/hr (g6e.xlarge)

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS8/10

   $1.86/hr (g6e.xlarge)

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on what the published sources say.

8. Round 8The cheapest A10AWS wins
   Modal5/10

   $1.10/hr ($0.000306/sec)

   serverless pay-per-second GPU pricing

   • $1.10/hr ($0.000306/sec), against $1.01/hr (g5.xlarge, A10G)

   Source: modal.com ↗

   AWS8/10

   $1.01/hr (g5.xlarge, A10G)

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on what the published sources say.

Side by side

Modal

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AWS

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Overall score

6.4

Best

6.3

Price

See price

See price

The cheapest H100

6.6

6.3

The cheapest A100

6.2

6.1

What it costs to get your data out

6.6

6.1

How cheap you can start

6.0

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How many places it runs

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6.2

Head-to-head findings

The cheapest H100

$3.95

$6.88

The cheapest A100

$2.10

$2.74

What it costs to get your data out

1 TiB free, then $0.04 per GiB

First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB

How many places it runs

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39

How cheap you can start

$0.59

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What customers say on Trustpilot

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1.3 out of 5

How precisely you are billed

Billed by the second

Per-second, 60-second minimum

What storage costs per month

$0.09/GiB-mo (Volumes)

$0.08/GB-mo (EBS gp3)

Record

Head-to-head record

3–2

3–4

Head-to-heads won

60 %

43 %

Rounds won

35 %

37 %

Pros

• AWS Regions
• worked out from $41.528 an hour for a p5.48xlarge with eight H100s, US regions
• worked out from $47.76 an hour for a p5e.48xlarge with eight H200s

Cons

• $3.95, against $1.99
• $2.10, against $1.19
• $4.54, against $3.59
• $6.25, against $5.98

• $5.19, against $1.99
• $2.74, against $1.19
• $5.97, against $3.59
• First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB, against No egress fees

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