Modal pricing

Modal starts at $0/mo and has a free tier, with self-serve signup.

Last checked 2026-08-25. Verify on the vendor's own page before you commit spend.

Plans

The Starter plan at $0 + compute / month covers $30 / month free credits, 3 workspace seats, 100 containers + 10 GPU concurrency, which is where an agent would start. The top plan (Enterprise) is quoted rather than listed, so anything at that volume goes through a person.

Can an agent buy this on its own?

A price is only half the question. The other half is whether software can get from landing on the site to making a paid call without a person, which is what the AgentReady measures under adopt.

For Modal, it can create an account itself; no sales call stands in the way; the signup flow is one an agent can actually complete.

Against that, credentials must be minted by hand in a dashboard. Each of those is a point where an unattended run stops and waits for a human.

That works out to 65/100 on adopt, against 55/100 overall.

What you are paying for

Modal provides a serverless cloud for engineers and researchers who want to build compute-intensive applications without thinking about infrastructure. It is an AI infrastructure platform that developers love, offering sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, and a developer experience that feels local. The platform is engineered for inference, training, batch processing, and sandboxes.

Next

Modal's full agent-readiness profile breaks down all 41 signals. Alternatives to Modal ranks what else does the same job.

An agent can fetch this as data: GET /v1/pricing?domain=modal.com