Modal vs Google Cloud

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 ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $11.06

   worked out from $88.49 an hour for an a3-highgpu-8g with eight H100s

   • $11.06, against $3.95

   Source: cloud.google.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 ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $3.67

   worked out from $29.38708 an hour for an a2-highgpu-8g with eight A100s

   • $3.67, against $2.10

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

3. Round 3What it costs to get your data outModal wins
   Modal8/10

   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 ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $0.12 per GiB to start

   premium-tier internet egress to North America after the first GiB

   • $0.12 per GiB to start, against 1 TiB free, then $0.04 per GiB

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

4. Round 4Free credit to startGoogle Cloud wins
   Modal5/10

   $30 a month

   free credit on the Starter plan, every month

   • $30 a month, against $300

   Source: modal.com ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   $300

   welcome credit, spend within 90 days

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

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

   Billed by the second

   with nothing charged for idle time

   Source: modal.com ↗

   Google Cloud7/10

   Per-second after the first minute

   vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a one-minute minimum, then per second

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

6. Round 6The cheapest L4Google Cloud wins
   Modal5/10

   $0.80/hr ($0.000222/sec)

   serverless pay-per-second GPU pricing

   • $0.80/hr ($0.000222/sec), against $0.71/hr (g2-standard-4)

   Source: modal.com ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   $0.71/hr (g2-standard-4)

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the published sources say.

7. Round 7What storage costs per monthModal wins
   Modal8/10

   $0.09/GiB-mo (Volumes)

   serverless pay-per-second GPU pricing

   Source: modal.com ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   • $0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD), against $0.09/GiB-mo (Volumes)

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Modal wins this round on what the published sources say.

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Overall score

6.4

Best

6.0

Price

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The cheapest H100

6.6

5.0

The cheapest A100

6.2

5.0

What it costs to get your data out

6.6

5.3

How cheap you can start

6.0

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How many places it runs

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7.0

Head-to-head findings

The cheapest H100

$3.95

$11.06

The cheapest A100

$2.10

$3.67

What it costs to get your data out

1 TiB free, then $0.04 per GiB

$0.12 per GiB to start

How many places it runs

—

43 regions

How cheap you can start

$0.59

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What customers say on Trustpilot

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1.4 out of 5

How precisely you are billed

Billed by the second

Per-second after the first minute

What storage costs per month

$0.09/GiB-mo (Volumes)

$0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)

Record

Head-to-head record

3–2

0–7

Head-to-heads won

60 %

0 %

Rounds won

35 %

24 %

Pros

Cons

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

• $11.06, against $1.99
• $3.67, against $1.19
• $0.12 per GiB to start, against No egress fees
• 1.4 out of 5, against 3.8 out of 5

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