Modal vs Spheron
7 GPUs in common. Modal is cheaper on 3, Spheron on 4; on average Spheron is 8% below Modal.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Modal | Spheron | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $7.10 | $10.21 | Modal −30% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $6.25 | $9.36 | Modal −33% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.54 | $4.79 | Modal −5% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.95 | $2.64 | Spheron −33% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $3.03 | $2.27 | Spheron −25% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $2.50 | $1.43 | Spheron −43% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $1.95 | $0.96 | Spheron −51% | $1.47 |
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Questions
Is Modal or Spheron cheaper?
On the 7 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Modal is cheaper on 3 and Spheron on 4. On average Spheron is 8% 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, L4, T4; Spheron alone prices MI300X, GH200, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 4090, RTX 5090. They are different kinds of provider — Modal is a neocloud, Spheron 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. Spheron: 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.