Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10 vs Modal Nvidia A10

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The same A10 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. Modal Nvidia A10 takes 2 of 4 rounds against Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.10/GPU-hr against $1.29/GPU-hr.

Lambda

1x NVIDIA A10

1x A10 · 24 GB · 5.4¢/GB-hr

$1.29/GPU-hr

$1.29/hr for the machine · $217 a week

ModalWins 2 rounds

Nvidia A10

1x A10 · 24 GB · 4.6¢/GB-hr

$1.10/GPU-hr

$1.10/hr for the machine · $185 a weekServerless

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.29/GPU-hr

$1.10/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

5.4¢/GB-hr

4.6¢/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

24 GB

24 GB

GPUs per instance

1x A10

1x A10

vCPU

30

not published

RAM

226 GB

not published

Included storage

1.3 TB

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

none listed

none listed

What a run costs on each

  • An hour of the machine$1.29/hr vs $1.10/hr
  • A day$31 vs $26
  • A week$217 vs $185
  • A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price

Lambda, then Modal, at the published rate with no commitment discount.

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Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10 or Modal Nvidia A10?
Modal Nvidia A10, at $1.10/GPU-hr against $1.29/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $1.10/hr against $1.29/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?
Both add up to 24 GB across the instance, at 24 GB and 24 GB a board.
What would a week cost?
$217 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10 and $185 for Modal Nvidia A10, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
What does the hourly price leave out?
Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10: disk 1.3 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. Modal Nvidia A10: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 1 Nov 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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