Modal vs Sandock
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 24 hours.
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What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Sandock
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Sandock: Container
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Sandock: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Sandocksandock
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Sandock: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Sandock: Not listed
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Sandock: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Sandock: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: Up to 150
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Sandock: Container
- GPU
- Modal:
- Sandock: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Sandock: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
- Sandock: MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Sandock
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Sandock: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Sandock: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Sandock: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You want to start without paying.
Sandock fits when
- You use MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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