exe.dev vs Modal
exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
Updated
exe.dev
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
exe.dev
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- exe.dev: $0.0525
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- exe.dev: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- exe.dev: $15 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- exe.dev: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
- Isolation
- exe.dev: Full VM
- Modal: gVisor
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- exe.dev: $0.0525
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- exe.dev: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- exe.dev: $15 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- exe.dev: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- exe.dev: Full VM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- exe.dev: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- exe.dev: Enterprise plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
exe.dev
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- exe.dev: $0.053
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- exe.dev: $0.105
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- exe.dev: $0.210
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
exe.dev fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
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