Modal slashes region surcharge floor from 1.5x to 1.15x across all tiers
What happened
Between the Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Region selection surcharge multiplier's lower bound was cut from 1.5x to 1.15x base prices, reducing the minimum premium for choosing a specific region across Starter, Team, and Enterprise. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 26, 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.
It lands 23 days after Modal's previous change, "Modal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans" (Aug 10, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Modal: Team plan container limit increased 1000→5000" (Aug 4, 2026), "Modal adds Nvidia B300 GPU tier at $0.001972/sec, above B200" (Jul 13, 2026) and "Modal: New Volumes storage pricing + lower Cloud Marketplace multiplier" (Jul 3, 2026). Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Together AI, Lambda Labs, Paper, Huggingface and Anyscale also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Starter, Team, Enterprise · PriceChanged1.5x1.15x base prices
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, Team, Enterprise | Price | 1.5x | 1.15x base prices | Changed |
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 Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where "1.5x" becomes "1.15x base prices".
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 12, 2026packagingModal adds included token usage row, renames free credits to free compute
- Sep 11, 2026improvedModal swaps Okta SSO for SAML SSO in Enterprise audit logs bullet
- Sep 8, 2026decreaseModal cuts region surcharge floor to 1.15x, easing cross-region compute costs
- Sep 3, 2026decreaseModal slashes region surcharge floor from 1.5x to 1.15x across all tiers · this change
- Aug 10, 2026improvedModal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans
- Aug 4, 2026improvedModal: Team plan container limit increased 1000→5000
- Jul 13, 2026packagingModal adds Nvidia B300 GPU tier at $0.001972/sec, above B200
- Jul 3, 2026packagingModal: New Volumes storage pricing + lower Cloud Marketplace multiplier
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Together AISep 1Together AI adds Qwen3.8 Flash at $0.15/1M tokens, drops Gemma 3n E4B
- Lambda LabsJul 27Lambda Labs gates HGX B200 clusters behind sales, keeps $9.86–$8.87/hr rates
- PaperJul 6Paper: removed "collaboration files" from Free and Pro plan lists
- HuggingfaceJul 3Enterprise SCIM provisioning & Team SSO OIDC added + 2 more changes
- AnyscaleJun 15Anyscale pulls H100/H200 GPU prices, pushes enterprise sales
Questions about this change
Did Modal raise prices in September 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026 Modal's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Starter, Team, Enterprise: 1.5x → 1.15x base prices (changed).
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026?
Starter, Team, Enterprise price: 1.5x → 1.15x base prices, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Modal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Modal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Modal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans" on Aug 10, 2026; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.