Daytona vs Modal
- GPUs
- 8 11
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.99/hr $0.59/hr
- Price wins
- 1/5 0/5
Daytona is cheaper on 1 of the 5 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 3 more GPUs.
Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum.
Best for: Agent sandboxes and short GPU jobs
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 | Daytona | Modal | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $6.25/hr | $6.25/hr | Level |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $6.25/hr | $7.10/hr | 14% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.95/hr | $3.95/hr | Level |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $4.54/hr | $4.54/hr | Level |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | $3.03/hr | $3.03/hr | Level |
Prices last checked: Daytona 1 Oct 2026, Modal 1 Oct 2026.
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Company facts
| Fact | Daytona | Modal |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  New York, United States | New York City, United States |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2023 | n/a |
| Regions | 5 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 8 | 11 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI355X OAM | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | GPU sandboxes, LLM inference and serving, fine-tuning and training, model evaluations, AI agent code execution, snapshots, persistent volumes, REST API, CLI, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go and Java | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes |
| Pricing models | On-demand, Spot (preemptible), Reserved (enterprise, on request), per-second billing, no minimum commitment | Pay-per-second, no commitments |
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Questions
- What is the difference between Daytona and Modal?
- Daytona: Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum. Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
- Is Daytona cheaper than Modal?
- Daytona is cheaper on 1 of the 5 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 3 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Daytona and Modal?
- Daytona charges $6.25 per GPU-hour and Modal charges $6.25 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Daytona and Modal?
- 5 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.
- 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.
