Amazon Web Services vs Modal
- GPUs
- 14 11
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.53/hr $0.59/hr
- Price wins
- 2/9 7/9
Modal is cheaper on 7 of the 9 GPUs both rent, Amazon Web Services on 2. Amazon Web Services carries 3 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services.
Best for: Teams already building on AWS services
Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
Best for: Serverless inference and batch jobs
Price by GPU
The 9 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Modal | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $14.24/hr | $6.25/hr | 128% |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $17.80/hr | $7.10/hr | 151% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.88/hr | $3.95/hr | 74% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $7.91/hr | $4.54/hr | 74% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.86/hr | $1.95/hr | 5% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $3.43/hr | $2.50/hr | 37% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB | $2.74/hr | $2.10/hr | 31% |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.80/hr | $0.80/hr | 1% |
| NVIDIA T4 16GB | $0.53/hr | $0.59/hr | 12% |
Prices last checked: Amazon Web Services 1 Oct 2026, Modal 1 Oct 2026.
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Company facts
| Fact | Amazon Web Services | Modal |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Seattle, WA | New York City, United States |
| Type | Hyperscaler | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2006 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 14 | 11 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | n/a | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes |
| Pricing models | n/a | Pay-per-second, no commitments |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Amazon Web Services and Modal?
- Amazon Web Services: Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services. Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
- Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than Modal?
- Modal is cheaper on 7 of the 9 GPUs both rent, Amazon Web Services on 2. Amazon Web Services carries 3 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Amazon Web Services and Modal?
- Amazon Web Services charges $14.24 per GPU-hour and Modal charges $6.25 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Amazon Web Services and Modal?
- 9 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
