Agent Sandbox vs Modal
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Agent Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Agent Sandbox
Modal
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Agent Sandbox
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $30 against $10.
- You need snapshots.
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