BoxCompute vs Modal
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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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