Amazon Web Services vs Modal
8 GPUs in common. Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0, Modal on 8; on average Modal is 41% below Amazon Web Services.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Modal | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $14.24 | $6.25 | Modal −56% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $7.91 | $4.54 | Modal −43% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $6.88 | $3.95 | Modal −43% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $3.43 | $2.50 | Modal −27% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.39 | $1.95 | Modal −42% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $2.74 | $2.10 | Modal −24% | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $1.60 | $0.80 | Modal −50% | $0.80 |
| NVIDIA T4 | $0.98 | $0.59 | Modal −40% | $0.59 |
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Questions
Is Amazon Web Services or Modal cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0 and Modal on 8. On average Modal is 41% cheaper than Amazon Web Services across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Amazon Web Services alone prices V100 32GB, V100 16GB, A10G; Modal alone prices B300, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, A10. They are different kinds of provider — Amazon Web Services is a hyperscaler, Modal a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Amazon Web Services: Public on-demand price list for Linux, us-east-1. Instance price divided by GPU count. Modal: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.