Modal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan
What happened
Between the Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: New Network Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB added to resource costs, with included monthly egress per plan; Plans now include free monthly network egress: Starter 1 TiB, Team 10 TiB, Enterprise 100 TiB; Enterprise security bullet changed from 'SAML SSO' to 'Okta SSO' alongside audit logs and HIPAA. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on, feature change, feature added). 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.
It lands 23 days after Modal's previous change, "Modal adds included token usage row, renames free credits to free compute" (Sep 12, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Modal swaps Okta SSO for SAML SSO in Enterprise audit logs bullet" (Sep 11, 2026), "Modal slashes region surcharge floor from 1.5x to 1.15x across all tiers" (Sep 3, 2026) and "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 and Lambda Labs also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- AddedNetwork Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiBAdd-on
BeforeNot listed
AfterNetwork Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB
- RewordedEnterpriseFeatureSAML SSOOkta SSO
- AddedStarter, Team, EnterpriseFeature
BeforeNot listed
Afterfree monthly network egress
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB | Add-on | Not listed | Network Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB | Added |
| Enterprise | Feature | SAML SSO | Okta SSO | Reworded |
| Starter, Team, Enterprise | Feature | Not listed | free monthly network egress | 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 Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Network Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB now appears.
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full historyDates are the day each change was detected, Eastern time.
- Nov 13, 2026ImprovementModal adds Inkling 2 Small at $0.30/$1.00 per 1M tokens, $0.03 cached
- Oct 26, 2026ImprovementModal drops Notebooks from Sandbox pricing, bills at 3x non-preemptible rates
- Oct 26, 2026PackagingModal drops Notebooks from its Sandbox pricing section and product footer
- Oct 4, 2026PackagingModal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan This change
- 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
- 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
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Together AIOct 5Together AI adds Tev1 4B Experimental at $0.04 input with free output
- Lambda LabsJul 27Lambda Labs gates HGX B200 clusters behind sales, keeps $9.86–$8.87/hr rates
- Together AIOct 2Together AI adds Tev1 4B Experimental at $0.04 input with free output tokens
- Together AISep 25Together AI reveals NVIDIA HGX B300 pricing at $9.99/GPU/hr, $4.99 preemptible
- Together AISep 23Together AI cuts Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.8 Flash inference prices by 40%
Questions about this change
Did Modal raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on, feature change, feature added.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC?
Add-on added: Network Egress usage charge of $0.04/GiB; Enterprise feature: SAML SSO → Okta SSO, reworded; Starter, Team, Enterprise feature added: free monthly network egress. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Modal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 6 other pricing-page changes for Modal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Modal adds included token usage row, renames free credits to free compute" on Sep 12, 2026; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.