Modal
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Modal, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Modal's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Team | $250 a month | $100 / month free credits · unlimited seats · 5000 containers · 50 GPU concurrency · unlimited Scheduled Functions · custom domains · static IP proxy · deployment rollbacks · environment-level budgets · 10 TiB / month free network egress · + compute / month |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Volume-based discounts · unlimited seats · higher GPU concurrency · embedded ML engineering services · environment-level budgets · private Slack support · audit logs · Okta SSO · HIPAA · 100 TiB / month free network egress · Custom compute |
| Starter | — | $30 / month free credits · 3 workspace seats · 100 containers · 10 GPU concurrency · limited Scheduled and Web Functions · 1 TiB / month free network egress · + compute / month |
The facts
Each one read from Modal's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Autoscaling
- Modal instantly autoscale ups and downs based on request volume and scales to zero when there are no inputs.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Batch jobs
- Modal runs large-scale batch jobs on thousands of containers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Compute primitives
- Modal provides Functions, Sandboxes, and Servers for serverless compute, isolated code execution, and low-latency HTTP workloads.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Data privacy
- Modal says it will never access or use customer source code, Function inputs or outputs, or data stored in Images and Volumes.checked 1 Oct 2026
- GPU capacity
- Modal pools hardware across multiple clouds to optimize GPU availability and cost.checked 1 Oct 2026
- HIPAA
- Modal services can be used for HIPAA-compliant workloads with an Enterprise-plan Business Associate Agreement, while Volumes v1, Images except Filesystem and Directory Snapshots, Memory Snapshots, and user code are out of scope.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Inference
- Modal deploys autoscaling inference endpoints on GPUs.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Modal Datadog integration exports audit logs, Function logs, and container metrics to Datadog.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Python is the primary language, and JavaScript/TypeScript and Go can call Modal Functions, run Sandboxes, and manage resources.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security
- Modal has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Slack
- Modal offers a beta Slack integration with alerts for failed scheduled runs, crash-looping containers, resource limits, budgets, and credits.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Starter and Team plans include access to Modal Community Slack, while Enterprise adds private Slack support and embedded ML engineering services.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Target users
- Modal customers use it for generative AI inference, LLM fine-tuning, computational biotech, and media processing.checked 1 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Modal is a cloud function platform for executing Python code in the cloud in seconds.checked 1 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2021checked 28 Sep 2026
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