What is the latest version of Modal?

The current shipped version of Modal is 2025.

How much does Modal cost?

Modal has no published flat entry price. Per-second GPU billing, $30 free

What AI model does Modal use?

Modal runs primarily on bring your own.

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Modal

Name: Modal
Author: Modal Labs

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Serverless GPU compute for Python-native AI workloads.

Current version

2025

Entry cost

Per-second GPU billing, $30 free

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The short answers

What is the latest version of Modal?: The current shipped version of Modal is 2025.
How much does Modal cost?: Modal has no published flat entry price. Per-second GPU billing, $30 free
What AI model does Modal use?: Modal runs primarily on bring your own.

Source: Modal Labs (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

Serverless GPUs
Cold-start optimisation
Volumes

Pricing

Per-second GPU billing, $30 free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

bring your own
Provider undisclosed
disclosed

Context window

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Public API

Multi-model routing

Stack signals

gVisor
Rust scheduler

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

bring your ownProvider undisclosed · 1 product
- Modal

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/modal

APA

Tomorrow. (2026). Modal — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/modal

BibTeX

@misc{tomorrow-tools-modal,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Modal — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/modal}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}