Blaxel vs Modal
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Modal: Per second
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Blaxelblaxel
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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