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Lambda vs Modal

What each costs, whether there's a free plan, and what each is best for, from prices checked on their own sites.

Lambda and Modal at a glance
Fact	Lambda	Modal
From	$2.29/hr	$1.10/hr
Free plan	No · No	Yes · $30/month of free credits on the Starter plan
Best for	GPU cloud focused on NVIDIA data-centre GPUs for training and inference.	Serverless GPUs for Python: pay per second while your code runs.
Checked	Oct 17, 2026	Oct 17, 2026
Website	Visit	Visit

The difference in short

Lambda plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
B200 180GB SXM6 (1x instance)	$6.99/hr	B200 SXM6 · 26 vCPU · 360 GB RAM	Per GPU, 1x configuration (26 vCPU, 360 GiB RAM, 2.75 TiB SSD). Cheaper per GPU in bigger configs: 2x $6.89, 4x $6.79, 8x $6.69 (8x instance = 208 vCPU, 2900 GiB RAM). RAM is shown in GiB.
H100 80GB SXM (1x instance)	$4.29/hr	H100 SXM · 26 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU, 1x configuration (26 vCPU, 225 GiB RAM, 2.75 TiB SSD). 2x $4.19, 4x $4.09 per GPU.
H100 80GB SXM (8x instance)	$3.99/hr	H100 SXM · 26 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU in an 8-GPU instance. vCPU and RAM are the exact per-GPU share of the instance totals (208 vCPU / 8, 1800 GiB / 8). 22 TiB SSD per instance.
H100 80GB PCIe (1x instance)	$3.29/hr	H100 PCIe · 26 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU, 1x configuration only (26 vCPU, 225 GiB RAM, 1 TiB SSD).
A100 80GB SXM (8x instance)	$2.79/hr	A100 SXM · 30 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU in an 8-GPU instance; the 80GB A100 appears only in the 8x tab. vCPU and RAM are the exact per-GPU share of 240 vCPU / 1800 GiB. A100 40GB (SXM or PCIe) is $1.99/GPU/hr.
GH200 96GB (1x instance)	$2.29/hr	64 vCPU · 432 GB RAM	Per GPU, 1x configuration (64 vCPU, 432 GiB RAM, 4 TiB SSD).

Modal plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
B200	$6.25/hr	—	Published only per second: $0.001736/sec. Hourly = x3600, exact arithmetic. GPU price only; CPU and memory billed separately. VRAM not stated on the pricing page.
H200 SXM	$4.54/hr	—	Published $0.001261/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. GPU only. VRAM not stated on the pricing page.
H100 SXM5	$3.95/hr	—	Published $0.001097/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. GPU only. H100 is 80GB, but the pricing page does not state VRAM.
A100 80GB	$2.50/hr	—	Published $0.000694/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. A100 40GB is $0.000583/sec = $2.0988/hr.
L40S	$1.95/hr	—	Published $0.000542/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. L40S is 48GB, but the pricing page does not state VRAM.
A10	$1.10/hr	—	Published $0.000306/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. Also listed: L4 $0.000222/sec ($0.7992/hr), T4 $0.000164/sec ($0.5904/hr), RTX PRO 6000 $0.000842/sec ($3.0312/hr), B300 $0.001972/sec ($7.0992/hr).

Cheapest first where the prices compare.

Which is cheaper, Lambda or Modal?

Modal costs less to start: $1.10/hr against $2.29/hr for Lambda. Prices checked Oct 17, 2026 on each company's own site.

Do Lambda and Modal have a free plan?

Lambda: No, we found no free plan or trial for Lambda. Modal: Yes. $30/month of free credits on the Starter plan.

What else should I compare with Lambda and Modal?

Other GPU cloud options we've checked: RunPod ($0.34/hr), TensorDock ($0.35/hr), Vast.ai ($0.49/hr), DigitalOcean GPU Droplets ($0.76/hr).

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