GPU.ai vs Modal
8 GPUs in common. GPU.ai is cheaper on 7, Modal on 1; on average Modal is 72% above GPU.ai.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | GPU.ai | Modal | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $7.78 | $6.25 | Modal −20% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.69 | $3.95 | GPU.ai −7% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 | $4.54 | GPU.ai −21% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.84 | $3.03 | GPU.ai −39% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.21 | $2.50 | GPU.ai −52% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $0.89 | $2.10 | GPU.ai −58% | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.80 | $1.95 | GPU.ai −59% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.38 | $0.80 | GPU.ai −52% | $0.80 |
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Questions
Is GPU.ai or Modal cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, GPU.ai is cheaper on 7 and Modal on 1. On average Modal is 72% more expensive than GPU.ai across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
GPU.ai alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, L40, RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 4090, A40, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, RTX A5000; Modal alone prices B300, A10, T4. They are different kinds of provider — GPU.ai is a marketplace, Modal a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
GPU.ai: 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. 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.