Modal vs Northflank Sandboxes
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Northflank Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Northflank Sandboxesnorthflank
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Northflank Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need GDPR.
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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