Modal Pricing

Modal's lowest paid plan starts at $30 per month, with 5 tiers in total. Pricing reflects what was published on 2026-05-03 — see the live Modal pricing page for the most current terms.

Modal does not advertise a free tier on its public pricing page as of 2026-05-03. A free trial may be available on request via the sales team.

Modal's pricing page positions itself as: "Pricing as magical as our product — With Modal, you always pay for what you use and nothing more. You never pay for idle resources — just actual compute time, by the CPU cycle.". For the strict definition of agent-buyable PPU — a per-task purchase that an AI agent can complete without an annual commitment — see the agent-readiness scorecard.

Yes. Every advertised Modal tier is self-serve via card checkout, with no sales call required.

Yes — Modal's API documentation is publicly accessible at https://modal.com/docs. An AI agent or developer can inspect the integration surface without authentication.

xpay scored Modal 53 / 100 on its Agent-Ready SaaS Index, which places it in the Partially Agent-Ready band. Modal publishes a pricing page with 5 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. For the full 6-step purchase simulation and the one-line fix that would lift this listing into the next band, see the linked scorecard.

In the AI Inference category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists multiple alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Modal to compare with 3 nearest peers, or browse the full AI Inference category from the index.