Modal spotlights GLM-5.1 with new pricing page banner and quick-start link
What happened
Between the Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 13, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: GLM-5.1 is now available to try on Modal, announced via a new banner at the top of the pricing page with a direct link to get started. Pulse files it as a product change (feature added) 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.
It lands 34 days after Modal's previous change, "Modal adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPU at $0.000842/sec" (Mar 10, 2026). Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Together AI and Huggingface also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · FeatureFeature added
GLM-5.1 is now available to try on Modal, announced via a new banner at the top of the pricing page with a direct link to get started.
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | GLM-5.1 is now available to try on Modal, announced via a new banner at the top of the pricing page with a direct link to get started. | Feature added | |
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 Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 13, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page.
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- May 19, 2026packagingModal rebrands plan features as Scheduled and Web Functions
- May 11, 2026improvedModal quietly removes $25k cap on startup compute credit grants
- 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 · this change
- Mar 10, 2026packagingModal adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPU at $0.000842/sec
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Together AIApr 13Together AI adds 11 models including Gemma 4 and raises GLM-5 prices up to 40%
- HuggingfaceApr 3Huggingface Launches Data Storage Pricing Starting at $12/TB/mo
- Together AIApr 9Together AI hikes reserved GPU rates up to 30% and drops three AI models
- Together AIApr 7Together AI hikes DeepSeek-V3.1 output price, slashes Mistral Small 3 rates
- Together AIApr 6Together AI cuts DeepSeek-V3.1 prices 26%, raises GPU cluster rates
Questions about this change
Did Modal raise prices in April 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 13, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature added.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 13, 2026?
GLM-5.1 is now available to try on Modal, announced via a new banner at the top of the pricing page with a direct link to get started. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 13, 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 adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPU at $0.000842/sec" on Mar 10, 2026; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.