Modal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans
What happened
Between the Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Environment-level budgets (per-environment spend controls) added to Team and Enterprise plans; not available on Starter. In detail: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans (spend controls per environment, own docs page). Not available on Starter plan. 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 6 days after Modal's previous change, "Modal: Team plan container limit increased 1000→5000" (Aug 4, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Modal adds Nvidia B300 GPU tier at $0.001972/sec, above B200" (Jul 13, 2026), "Modal: New Volumes storage pricing + lower Cloud Marketplace multiplier" (Jul 3, 2026) and "Modal rebrands plan features as Scheduled and Web Functions" (May 19, 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.
- Team, Enterprise, Starter · FeatureAdded
BeforeNo Environment-level budgets
AfterEnvironment-level budgets
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team, Enterprise, Starter | Feature | No Environment-level budgets | Environment-level budgets | 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 Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Environment-level budgets now appears.
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- 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
- Aug 10, 2026improvedModal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans · this change
- 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
- May 19, 2026packagingModal rebrands plan features as Scheduled and Web Functions
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Together AIAug 4Together AI: HGX H100 GPU price increase + Kimi K3 & Inkling Small models added
- 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 August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature added.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026?
Team, Enterprise, Starter feature: No Environment-level budgets → Environment-level budgets, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 10, 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: Team plan container limit increased 1000→5000" on Aug 4, 2026; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.