Modal vs Sesterce
- GPUs
- 11 3
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.59/hr $0.76/hr
- Price wins
- 0/3 3/3
Sesterce is cheaper on all 3 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 8 more GPUs.
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
Sells GPU cloud and AI factory capacity on demand, reserved or spot, plus colocation, hosted in Europe.
Best for: Reserved and spot GPU capacity
Price by GPU
The 3 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Modal | Sesterce | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.95/hr | $1.83/hr | 116% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.95/hr | $0.76/hr | 157% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $2.50/hr | $1.49/hr | 68% |
Prices last checked: Modal 1 Oct 2026, Sesterce 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Modal 8
Only on Sesterce 0
Every GPU Sesterce rents is also on the other side.
Company facts
| Fact | Modal | Sesterce |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  New York City, United States |  France |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Regions | n/a | 3 |
| GPUs priced | 11 | 3 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB |
| Services | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes | GPU cloud, AI factories, colocation |
| Pricing models | Pay-per-second, no commitments | On-demand, reserved, spot |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Modal and Sesterce?
- Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments. Sesterce: Sells GPU cloud and AI factory capacity on demand, reserved or spot, plus colocation, hosted in Europe.
- Is Modal cheaper than Sesterce?
- Sesterce is cheaper on all 3 GPUs both rent. Modal carries 8 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on Modal and Sesterce?
- Modal charges $3.95 per GPU-hour and Sesterce charges $1.83 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Modal and Sesterce?
- 3 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, 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.
