Modal H100 pricing

Serverless GPUs billed per second with genuine scale-to-zero. The hourly rate is high because you never pay for idle — for bursty inference that inverts the comparison.

List prices checked

By Modal · GPU cloud

Rate card

What Modal charges, by billing axis.

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Source: Modal pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Modal H100 billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$2,884/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $3.95/hr (H100 80GB)$2,884

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$5,767/mo

  • 1,460 GPU-hours at $3.95/hr (H100 80GB)$5,767

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$2,884/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $3.95/hr (H100 80GB)$2,884

Modal H100 vs the alternatives

The closest GPU cloud providers on price, with the difference on gpu cloud's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs Modal H100Compare
Replicate H100$5.041.3× dearerHead to head
Lambda H100$2.491.6× cheaperHead to head
CoreWeave H100$2.311.7× cheaperHead to head
Paperspace H100$2.241.8× cheaperHead to head
RunPod H100$1.992× cheaperHead to head
Hyperstack H100$1.902.1× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Modal H100 cost in 2026?
Modal H100 charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Modal's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Modal H100 have a free tier?
No. Modal H100 bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
Are these Modal H100 prices current?
They were checked against Modal's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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