Deno Sandbox vs Modal
Deno Sandbox costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Deno Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 30 minutes. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Deno Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 30 minutes
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Deno Sandbox
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Modal: $0.024012
- Paid plan from
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Modal: Per second
- Max session
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Deno Sandboxdeno
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Deno Sandbox:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Deno Sandbox
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.150
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.300
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.600
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Deno Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 30 minutes.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
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