Modal cuts region surcharge floor to 1.15x, easing cross-region compute costs
What happened
Between the Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Region selection surcharge dropped from 1.5-1.75x to 1.15-1.75x base compute prices, lowering the minimum premium for choosing a specific region across Starter, Team, and Enterprise plans. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 15, 2026) lists Team at $250, Compute resources at $1.10 NVIDIA A10G instance hour + $1.95 L40S GPU hour and Sandbox + Notebooks compute at $2.40 per 100 GiB-Hour + $14.19 per 100 core-hours.
This weekly roll-up includes the change Pulse first recorded in a shorter period: "Modal slashes region surcharge floor from 1.5x to 1.15x across all tiers" (Day 246, 2026, saved Sep 3, 2026). It is the same change, not a new one. Before that, Modal's previous recorded change was "Modal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans" (Aug 10, 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.
- ChangedStarter, Team, EnterprisePrice
Before1.5-1.75x
After1.15-1.75x base compute prices
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, Team, Enterprise | Price | 1.5-1.75x | 1.15-1.75x base compute 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 Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where "1.5-1.75x" becomes "1.15-1.75x base compute prices".
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 14, 2026ImprovementModal renames Enterprise SSO from Okta to standards-based SAML
- Sep 12, 2026PackagingModal adds included token usage row, renames free credits to free compute
- Sep 11, 2026ImprovementModal swaps Okta SSO for SAML SSO in Enterprise audit logs bullet
- Sep 8, 2026Price decreaseModal cuts region surcharge floor to 1.15x, easing cross-region compute costs This change
- Sep 3, 2026Price decreaseModal slashes region surcharge floor from 1.5x to 1.15x across all tiers
- Aug 10, 2026ImprovementModal: Added Environment-level budgets to Team and Enterprise plans
- Aug 4, 2026PackagingModal: 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 Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026 Modal's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Starter, Team, Enterprise: 1.5-1.75x → 1.15-1.75x base compute prices (changed).
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026?
Starter, Team, Enterprise price: 1.5-1.75x → 1.15-1.75x base compute prices, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Modal change its pricing?
This weekly roll-up includes the change Pulse first recorded in Day 246, 2026 (saved Sep 3, 2026), not a new one; 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.