AgentBay vs Modal

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Modal

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$30 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

AgentBay
Modal
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Modal: $0.070956
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Modal: $0.024012
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Modal: $30 credit every month
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Modal: gVisor
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Modal: Claude Agent SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Modal: $0.070956
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Modal: $0.024012
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Modal: Not listed
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Modal: $30 credit every month
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Modal: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Modal: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal: 24 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Modal: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Modal: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Modal: gVisor
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal:
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Modal: Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Modal: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Modal
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Modal: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Modal: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Modal: $0.476

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Modal fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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