Packaging change·Jul 4 → Oct 5, 2025·Q3 2025·Cloud & DevOps

Modal Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators

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What changed

Freemium 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'

Feature change

Cloud marketplace support expanded from AWS only to include Azure, GCP, and OCI in addition to AWS

New add-on

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)

Plan renamed

GPU model renamed from 'Nvidia A10G' to 'Nvidia A10' (pricing unchanged at $0.000306/sec)

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