Modal vs Superserve
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Superserve
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Superserve
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Superserve: No limit
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Superserve: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Superservesuperserve
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Superserve: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Superserve: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Superserve: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Superserve: No limit
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- Superserve: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Superserve:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Superserve: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Superserve:
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Superserve
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Superserve: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Superserve: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Superserve: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
Superserve fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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