Modal vs Oblien Workspace
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Oblien Workspace
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit card
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Oblien Workspace
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Oblien Workspace: No
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Oblien Workspace: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Oblien Workspaceoblien
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Oblien Workspace: No
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Oblien Workspace:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Oblien Workspace: MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Oblien Workspace
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Oblien Workspace: $0.046
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Oblien Workspace: $0.092
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Oblien Workspace: $0.184
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 or Claude Code.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Oblien Workspace fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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