Modal vs Spheron
Modal and Spheron do not currently list any of the same GPUs with verified on-demand pricing, so there is no direct price head-to-head today. The table below shows what each offers, verified 2026-08-22. Platform facts come from each provider's own documentation.
Modal
Price per GPU, side by side (2026-08-22)
| GPU (on-demand $/hr) | Modal | Spheron | Price diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4090 | not offered | $0.77 | – |
| RTX 5090 | not offered | $0.86 | – |
| L40S | not offered | $0.96 | – |
| A100 | not offered | $1.43 | – |
| RTX PRO 6000 | not offered | $2.31 | – |
| H100 | not offered | $2.64 | – |
| H200 | not offered | $4.79 | – |
Cheapest verified on-demand rate per side from today's snapshot; highlighted = cheaper. Price diff is the absolute and percent saving on the cheaper side (named), relative to the higher price; – means one side does not offer that GPU on-demand. Spot/marketplace tiers shown on the individual pages.
Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering.How we collect and rank prices.
Platform facts
| Modal | Spheron | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing increment | per-second | not published |
| Egress | not published | not published |
| Storage /GB-mo | not published | not published |
| Spot offered | yes | yes |
| Reserved offered | no | no |
| Notebook support | one-click Jupyter | templates |
From each provider's documentation, verified 2026-07-07; sources on the fees matrix and enterprise matrix.
FAQ
Every GPU Modal lists with on-demand pricing is also available on Spheron. Spheron lists 7 that Modal does not: RTX 4090, RTX 5090, L40S, A100, RTX PRO 6000, H100 and 1 more.
Prices render from the live dataset each build. More: the screener · price movers · methodology.