Modal vs Runloop
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Runloop: $0.634
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 want the lower list price: $0.238 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need HIPAA and GDPR.
Runloop fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the larger free credit: $50 against $30.
- You need pause and resume.
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