Modal vs StateSet Sandbox
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, LangChain
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Modal:
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, LangChain
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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 LangChain.
- You want the larger free credit: $30 against $25.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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