Daytona vs Modal
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Daytona fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $200 against $30.
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