# Modal

Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.


Source: https://www.findhost.app/modal/
Last checked against the provider: 2026-08-01

## Record

### Links

- home: https://modal.com
- pricing: https://modal.com/pricing
- status: https://status.modal.com/
- terms: https://modal.com/legal/terms
- docs: https://modal.com/docs/guide

### Identity

- founded: unknown
- headcount: unknown
- favorite: unknown
- ownership: vc-backed
- parent: unknown
- status: active

### Classification

- category: serverless
- whoManagesOs: self-managed
- infraContract: unknown
- runsOn: unknown
- cdnFrom: unknown
- useCases: ai-app, data-pipeline, background-jobs, api
- audience: startup, enterprise, education, solo
- wikidata: unknown

### Tech stack

- runtimes: python, docker
- software: unknown
- specialisation: unknown
- sshAccess: unknown
- managedDatabases: unknown
- gpuCapacity: instances
- persistentStorage: unknown
- backupsIncluded: unknown

### Deployment

- deployMethods: unknown

### Pricing

- pricingModel: usage-based
- priceFrom: sm
- entryPrice: unknown
- priceTo: xl
- currencies: USD
- billingPeriods: monthly
- billingTiming: arrears
- exitWithin: a-quarter
- renewalMultiple: unknown
- freeTier: permanent
- contractMinimum: unknown

### Regions and law

- regions: US, CA, MX, IE, GB, IN, JP, AU
- hqCountry: US
- gdprDpa: unknown

### Other features

- energyClaim: unknown
- certifications: unknown
- greenWebId: unknown
- domainRegistration: unknown
- dnsHosting: unknown
- emailHosting: unknown
- cdnIncluded: unknown
- testDomain: unknown
- collaboration: unknown
- staging: unknown

### Support

- supportChannels: unknown
- supportHours: unknown
- supportTiering: unknown

### Automation

- mcpServer: unknown
- cliTool: official
- apiAvailable: public
- iacSupport: unknown

### Sources

- regions: https://modal.com/docs/guide/region-selection (read 2026-08-01)
- priceFrom: https://modal.com/pricing (read 2026-08-02)
- priceTo: https://modal.com/pricing (read 2026-08-02)
- currencies: https://modal.com/pricing (read 2026-08-02)
- billingPeriods: https://modal.com/legal/terms (read 2026-08-02)
- billingTiming: https://modal.com/legal/terms (read 2026-08-02)
- exitWithin: https://modal.com/legal/terms (read 2026-08-02)
- freeTier: https://modal.com/pricing (read 2026-08-01)
- pricingModel: https://modal.com/pricing (read 2026-08-01)

## Notes

Modal turns a Python function into a remote container. Decorate it, describe the image and the hardware it needs in the same file, and the platform provisions the machine, runs the code and tears it down again — billed by the second, with nothing charged while idle. The same mechanism covers model inference, sandboxes, training runs, notebooks and batch processing.

Plans are a free starter tier with a monthly credit allowance and a small seat limit, a paid team tier with a larger allowance and unlimited seats, and a quoted enterprise tier. Compute is metered per second: CPU by the core, memory by the gibibyte, GPUs by the card.

## Worth knowing

Python is the interface, not one option among several. There is no general web-application runtime and no long-lived server — this is a compute platform that happens to serve HTTP, and an ordinary website would be working against the grain of it.

Container and GPU concurrency are capped per plan, so scale is a commercial tier as much as a technical one.

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