Modal Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators
What happened
Between the Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded 4 changes: Credit grants restructured: separated into 'Credit grants for startups' (up to $50k) and 'Credit grants for academics' (up to $10k), replacing previous unified '$50k for startups and academic researchers'; Cloud marketplace support expanded from AWS only to include Azure, GCP, and OCI in addition to AWS; Modal Sandbox + Notebooks Pricing introduced with premium CPU pricing: $0.00003942/core/sec (3x standard rate) and $0.00000672/GiB/sec (3x standard memory rate); GPU model renamed from 'Nvidia A10G' to 'Nvidia A10' (pricing unchanged at $0.000306/sec). Pulse files it as a packaging change (freemium change, feature change, new add-on, plan renamed) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists Team at $250, Compute resources at $1.1 NVIDIA A10G instance hour + $1.95 L40S GPU hour and Sandbox + Notebooks compute at $2.4 per 100 GiB-Hour + $14.19 per 100 core-hours.
Modal's previous recorded change was "Modal Introduces Nvidia H200 GPU Compute Option at Competitive $0.001261/sec" (Q2 2025). Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Huggingface also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Free tierFreemium change
Credit grants restructured: separated into 'Credit grants for startups' (up to $50k) and 'Credit grants for academics' (up to $10k), replacing previous unified '$50k for startups and academic researchers'
- — · FeatureChangedAWS onlyinclude Azure
- CPU · Add-onAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterModal Sandbox + Notebooks Pricing
- — · PlanRewordedNvidia A10GNvidia A10
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Free tier | — | $50k | Freemium change |
| — | Feature | AWS only | include Azure | Changed |
| CPU | Add-on | Not listed | Modal Sandbox + Notebooks Pricing | Added |
| — | Plan | Nvidia A10G | Nvidia A10 | Reworded |
Values as written on Modal's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Modal's pricing page (modal.com) from Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "AWS only" becomes "include Azure".
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 13, 2026improvedModal spotlights GLM-5.1 with new pricing page banner and quick-start link
- Mar 10, 2026packagingModal adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPU at $0.000842/sec
- Q4 2025packagingModal Reduces Startup Credit Grant from $50k to $25k for Early-Stage Startups
- Q3 2025packagingModal Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators · this change
- Q2 2025improvedModal Introduces Nvidia H200 GPU Compute Option at Competitive $0.001261/sec
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- HuggingfaceJan 14Huggingface Introduces Cost-Effective AWS NVIDIA H100 Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hour, Reducing Prices from GCP's $10.00/hour
- HuggingfaceJan 14Huggingface Announces Major Price Drop: 4x Nvidia A10G-large Spaces Hardware Reduced by 54% to $5.00/hour
- HuggingfaceJan 14Huggingface Reduces GCP NVIDIA A100 Inference Endpoint Prices by 40% to $3.60/hour, Delivering Significant Cost Savings
- HuggingfaceJan 14Huggingface Introduces New Team Plan and Upgrades PRO Features Amid Significant Price Decrease for A100 Hardware
- HuggingfaceJan 14Huggingface Introduces 8x Nvidia H100 GPU Option for Spaces Hardware, Significantly Enhancing Compute Capacity
Questions about this change
Did Modal raise prices in October 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: freemium change, feature change, new add-on, plan renamed.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025?
Credit grants restructured: separated into 'Credit grants for startups' (up to $50k) and 'Credit grants for academics' (up to $10k), replacing previous unified '$50k for startups and academic researchers'; feature: AWS only → include Azure, changed; CPU add-on: Not listed → Modal Sandbox + Notebooks Pricing, added; plan: Nvidia A10G → Nvidia A10, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Modal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Modal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Modal Introduces Nvidia H200 GPU Compute Option at Competitive $0.001261/sec" in Q2 2025; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.