Modal vs RunPod Secure Cloud
8 GPUs in common. Modal is cheaper on 3, RunPod Secure Cloud on 5; on average RunPod Secure Cloud is 17% below Modal.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Modal | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $7.10 | $7.89 | Modal −10% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $6.25 | $6.79 | Modal −8% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.54 | $4.59 | Modal −1% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.95 | $3.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −12% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $3.03 | $2.14 | RunPod Secure Cloud −29% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $2.50 | $1.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −36% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $1.95 | $1.09 | RunPod Secure Cloud −44% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.80 | $0.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −39% | $0.80 |
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Questions
Is Modal or RunPod Secure Cloud cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Modal is cheaper on 3 and RunPod Secure Cloud on 5. On average RunPod Secure Cloud is 17% cheaper than Modal across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Modal alone prices A100 40GB, A10, T4; RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, MI300X, RTX 5090, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, A40, RTX A5000, RTX A4000.
Where do these prices come from?
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. RunPod Secure Cloud: Public GPU-type listing. Secure Cloud is RunPod's own datacentre capacity, quoted per GPU-hour. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.