Modal drops Notebooks from its Sandbox pricing section and product footer

WHY IT MATTERS

Removing a product from pricing-page real estate is often an early signal before a bigger consolidation, bundling, deprecation or a rename, rather than the end state itself. Watch whether Notebooks disappears further from Modal's product surface in the weeks following this pricing-page cleanup, or whether it resurfaces folded into Functions or Sandboxes pricing instead.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Second feature-removal move since tracking began in Jan 2024 (prior: Jan 1, 2026)
• 7 pricing changes in the last 90 days; previous change was 21 days ago (Oct 5, 2026)
• Feature removals made just 3.7% of the 2,028 market-wide changes tracked in 180 days
• Included-usage FAQ now lists only Functions and Sandboxes, with Notebooks removed

THEIR RATIONALE

Modal doesn't explain the change on the page itself, but pulling Notebooks out of both the section heading and the footer's product list, while narrowing the included-usage FAQ to Functions and Sandboxes, suggests a step back from marketing Notebooks as a separately billed product rather than just a wording tweak. It fits Modal's broader habit of editing page structure and terminology, it swapped Okta SSO wording for SAML SSO on Sep 11 and rebranded plan features on May 18, more often than it runs price changes.

THE SIGNAL

Modal doesn't remove features often: this is only its second feature-removal move since tracking began in Jan 2024, after personalized integration help was dropped from the Enterprise plan on Jan 1, 2026. The pattern itself is rare market-wide too: feature removals made up just 76 of 2,028 changes tracked in the last 180 days (3.7%), with no clear leader, Beehiiv and Supermetrics each show only 2 mentions apiece, so this reads as Modal tidying its own page rather than following a trend.

IN CONTEXT

Modal doesn't remove features often: this is only its second feature-removal move since tracking began in Jan 2024, after personalized integration help was dropped from the Enterprise plan on Jan 1, 2026. It comes 21 days after Modal added a $0.04/GiB network egress fee on Oct 5, part of a steady cadence, 7 changes in the last 90 days. The pattern itself is rare market-wide too: feature removals made up just 76 of 2,028 changes tracked in the last 180 days (3.7%), with no clear leader, Beehiiv and Supermetrics each show only 2 mentions apiece, so this reads as Modal tidying its own page rather than following a trend. Dropping Notebooks from the pricing section heading and footer, with the included-usage FAQ now covering only Functions and Sandboxes, looks like a step toward treating Notebooks as a lower-priority or folded-in product rather than a core billed product.