Modal vs RunPod Community Cloud
9 GPUs in common. Modal is cheaper on 0, RunPod Community Cloud on 9; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 34% below Modal.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Modal | RunPod Community Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $7.10 | $6.94 | RunPod Community Cloud −2% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $6.25 | $5.98 | RunPod Community Cloud −4% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.54 | $3.59 | RunPod Community Cloud −21% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.95 | $2.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −32% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $3.03 | $1.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −44% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $2.50 | $1.29 | RunPod Community Cloud −48% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $2.10 | $1.00 | RunPod Community Cloud −52% | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $1.95 | $0.79 | RunPod Community Cloud −60% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.80 | $0.44 | RunPod Community Cloud −45% | $0.80 |
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Questions
Is Modal or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?
On the 9 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Modal is cheaper on 0 and RunPod Community Cloud on 9. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 34% 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 A10, T4; RunPod Community Cloud alone prices H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 5090, H200 NVL, MI300X, RTX 5080, A40, RTX 4090, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, V100 16GB, RTX A4000, RTX A5000. They are different kinds of provider — Modal is a neocloud, RunPod Community Cloud a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.
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 Community Cloud: Third-party hosts renting through RunPod. Quoted per GPU-hour; a listing may have no hosts behind it. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.