Modal vs Morph

Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Morph costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Morph runs full VMs.

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Modal

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$30 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

Morph

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Modal
Morph
vCPU, per hour
Modal: $0.070956
Morph: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Modal: $0.024012
Morph: Included
Billing
Modal: Per second
Morph: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Modal: gVisor
Morph: Full VM
SDKs
Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Modal: $0.070956
Morph: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Modal: $0.024012
Morph: Included
Storage
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
Free tier
Modal: $30 credit every month
Morph: Not listed
Paid plan from
Modal: Pay as you go
Morph: Pay as you go
Billing
Modal: Per second
Morph: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Modal: 24 hours
Morph: Not listed
Idle stop
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Up to 128

Platform

Isolation
Modal: gVisor
Morph: Full VM
GPU
Modal:
Morph: Not listed
Snapshots
Modal:
Morph:
Pause and resume
Modal: Not listed
Morph:

Developer

SDKs
Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Morph: Not listed

Trust

License
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
BYOC
Modal: Not listed
Morph: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Modal
Morph
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Modal: $0.119
Morph: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Modal: $0.238
Morph: $0.100
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Modal: $0.476
Morph: $0.200

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Modal fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

Morph fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.100 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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