Modal drops Notebooks from Sandbox pricing, bills at 3x non-preemptible rates
What happened
Between the Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026 captures of Modal's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Notebooks dropped from the Sandbox pricing section: heading 'Sandbox + Notebooks pricing' became 'Sandbox pricing', and included-usage FAQ no longer lists Notebooks; Sandboxes now stated as billed at non-preemptible rates of 3x list price; CPU and Memory rows relabelled non-preemptible, displayed per-second rates unchanged. Pulse files it as a product change (feature change, feature removed) with a downward direction. The current page 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 21 days after Modal's previous change, "Modal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan" (Oct 5, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Modal drops Notebooks from its Sandbox pricing section and product footer" (Oct 26, 2026), "Modal renames Enterprise SSO from Okta to standards-based SAML" (Sep 14, 2026) and "Modal adds included token usage row, renames free credits to free compute" (Sep 12, 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 change
Sandboxes now stated as billed at non-preemptible rates of 3x list price; CPU and Memory rows relabelled non-preemptible, displayed per-second rates unchanged
- Sandbox · FeatureReworded
BeforeSandbox + Notebooks pricing
AfterSandbox pricing
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | Sandboxes now stated as billed at non-preemptible rates of 3x list price; CPU and Memory rows relabelled non-preemptible, displayed per-second rates unchanged | Feature change | |
| Sandbox | Feature | Sandbox + Notebooks pricing | Sandbox pricing | Reworded |
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 Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where "Sandbox + Notebooks pricing" becomes "Sandbox pricing".
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Modal, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 26, 2026packagingModal drops Notebooks from its Sandbox pricing section and product footer
- Oct 26, 2026packagingModal drops Notebooks from Sandbox pricing, bills at 3x non-preemptible rates · this change
- Oct 5, 2026packagingModal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan
- Sep 14, 2026improvedModal 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, 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
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Together AIOct 26Together AI: Four serverless inference models dropped from the pricing list: Gemma 4 31B, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Llama…
- HuggingfaceOct 16Huggingface adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPUs to Spaces from $2.75/hr
- Together AIOct 20Together AI adds NVIDIA B200 post-training at $11/GPU/hr, $9 launch promo
- Together AIOct 19Together AI ends free Muse Spark Open promo; $1.25/$4.25 pricing now applies
- Together AIOct 19Together AI lists Muse Spark Open, Reflection Beam, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Questions about this change
Did Modal raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature change, feature removed.
What changed on Modal's pricing page between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026?
Sandboxes now stated as billed at non-preemptible rates of 3x list price; CPU and Memory rows relabelled non-preemptible, displayed per-second rates unchanged; Sandbox feature: Sandbox + Notebooks pricing → Sandbox pricing, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Modal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 9 other pricing-page changes for Modal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Modal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan" on Oct 5, 2026; Modal has been tracked since 2023-11-14.