CoreWeave vs Modal
- GPUs
- 9 11
- Cheapest GPU
- $1.25/hr $0.59/hr
- Price wins
- 0/5 5/5
Modal is cheaper on all 5 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 2 more GPUs.
GPU cloud built for large AI workloads, with InfiniBand-connected clusters sold on demand and on reserved contracts.
Best for: Large training clusters on fast networking
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 5 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | CoreWeave | Modal | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $8.60/hr | $6.25/hr | 38% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.16/hr | $3.95/hr | 56% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $6.30/hr | $4.54/hr | 39% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $2.25/hr | $1.95/hr | 15% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $2.70/hr | $2.50/hr | 8% |
Prices last checked: CoreWeave 23 Oct 2026, Modal 1 Oct 2026.
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Only on CoreWeave 4
Company facts
| Fact | CoreWeave | Modal |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  United States | New York City, United States |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2017 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 9 | 11 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPU 186GB | 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 CoreWeave and Modal?
- CoreWeave: GPU cloud built for large AI workloads, with InfiniBand-connected clusters sold on demand and on reserved contracts. Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
- Is CoreWeave cheaper than Modal?
- Modal is cheaper on all 5 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 2 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on CoreWeave and Modal?
- CoreWeave charges $8.60 per GPU-hour and Modal charges $6.25 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both CoreWeave and Modal?
- 5 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, 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.
