Modal vs Namespace Devboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.
Updated
Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Namespace Devboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Namespace Devboxesnamespace
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Namespace Devboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need SOC 2.
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