Modal Reduces Startup Credit Grant from $50k to $25k for Early-Stage Startups
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded 6 changes: Personalized integration help removed from Enterprise plan feature list; Startup credit grant reduced from $50k to $25k for early-stage startups; Non-preemptible execution feature added across all tiers with 3x base pricing; Embedded ML engineering services added to Enterprise plan; Enterprise plan GPU concurrency description changed from 'Custom GPU concurrency' to 'Higher GPU concurrency'; Enterprise plan terminology updated: 'Volume-based pricing' changed to 'Volume-based discounts'. Pulse files it as a pricing change (feature removed, discount change, feature added, feature change) with a downward 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 Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators" (Q3 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.
- Enterprise · FeatureRemoved
BeforePersonalized integration help
AfterNo Personalized integration help
- — · Discount−50%$50k$25k
- — · FeatureAddedNo across all tiersacross all tiers
- Enterprise · FeatureAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterEmbedded ML engineering services
- Enterprise · FeatureRewordedCustom GPU concurrencyHigher GPU concurrency
- Enterprise · FeatureFeature change
Enterprise plan terminology updated: 'Volume-based pricing' changed to 'Volume-based discounts'
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Feature | Personalized integration help | No Personalized integration help | Removed |
| — | Discount | $50k | $25k | −50% |
| — | Feature | No across all tiers | across all tiers | Added |
| Enterprise | Feature | Not listed | Embedded ML engineering services | Added |
| Enterprise | Feature | Custom GPU concurrency | Higher GPU concurrency | Reworded |
| Enterprise | Feature | Enterprise plan terminology updated: 'Volume-based pricing' changed to 'Volume-based discounts' | Feature change | |
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 Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the change is marked on the page, where the Personalized integration help no longer appears.
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- May 5, 2026packagingModal caps region pricing at 1.75x, down from 2.5x multiplier
- 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 · this change
- Q3 2025packagingModal Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators
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 January 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: feature removed, discount change, feature added, feature change.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026?
Enterprise feature: Personalized integration help → No Personalized integration help, removed; discount: $50k → $25k (−50%); feature: No across all tiers → across all tiers, added; Enterprise feature: Not listed → Embedded ML engineering services, added; Enterprise feature: Custom GPU concurrency → Higher GPU concurrency, reworded; Enterprise plan terminology updated: 'Volume-based pricing' changed to 'Volume-based discounts'. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; 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 Restructures Credit Grants for Startups and Academics, Enhancing Support for Emerging Innovators" in Q3 2025; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.