InstaVM vs Modal
InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
InstaVM
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
InstaVMinstavm
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- InstaVM: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- InstaVM:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- InstaVM:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
InstaVM
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.083
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.166
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: $0.331
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
InstaVM fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- 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: $50 against $30.
- You need pause and resume.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You need HIPAA and GDPR.
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