AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Modal
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Modal: $0.024012
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need pause and resume.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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