DataCrunch vs Modal
- GPUs
- 11 11
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.65/hr $0.59/hr
- Price wins
- 5/8 3/8
DataCrunch is cheaper on 5 of the 8 GPUs both rent, Modal on 3.
GPU cloud renting on-demand instances and dedicated clusters by the hour from datacenters in Europe.
Best for: On-demand instances and dedicated clusters
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 8 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | DataCrunch | Modal | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $6.92/hr | $6.25/hr | 11% |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $8.62/hr | $7.10/hr | 21% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.63/hr | $3.95/hr | 9% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $4.73/hr | $4.54/hr | 4% |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | $2.00/hr | $3.03/hr | 51% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.54/hr | $1.95/hr | 26% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $1.79/hr | $2.50/hr | 40% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB | $1.29/hr | $2.10/hr | 62% |
Prices last checked: DataCrunch 1 Oct 2026, Modal 1 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on DataCrunch 3
Only on Modal 3
Company facts
| Fact | DataCrunch | Modal |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Helsinki, Finland |  New York City, United States |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| GPUs priced | 11 | 11 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPU 288GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | n/a | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes |
| Pricing models | n/a | Pay-per-second, no commitments |
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Questions
- What is the difference between DataCrunch and Modal?
- DataCrunch: GPU cloud renting on-demand instances and dedicated clusters by the hour from datacenters in Europe. Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
- Is DataCrunch cheaper than Modal?
- DataCrunch is cheaper on 5 of the 8 GPUs both rent, Modal on 3.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on DataCrunch and Modal?
- DataCrunch charges $6.92 per GPU-hour and Modal charges $6.25 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both DataCrunch and Modal?
- 8 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, NVIDIA L40S 48GB.
- 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.
