Modal vs Upstash Box
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.
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Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Upstash Box: Included
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Upstash Box: Container
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- Modal:
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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.
Upstash Box fits when
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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