Modal vs Sandbox0
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Sandbox0
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Sandbox0: No limit
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Sandbox0sandbox0
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Free
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Sandbox0: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Sandbox0: No limit
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- GPU
- Modal:
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Sandbox0:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Sandbox0
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Sandbox0: $0.030
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Sandbox0: $0.060
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Sandbox0: $0.120
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 a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
Sandbox0 fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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