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 17 Sept 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.

Lambda 1x NVIDIA A10 vs Modal Nvidia A10.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

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

$1.29/GPU-hr

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

1x A10 · 24 GB each · $0.0538/GB-hr

Lambda ↗

Modalwins 2 rounds

Nvidia A10

$1.10/GPU-hr

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

1x A10 · 24 GB each · $0.0459/GB-hr · Serverless

Modal ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.29/GPU-hr

$1.10/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0538/GB-hr

$0.0459/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

24 GB

GPUs per instance

1x A10

vCPU

not stated

RAM

226 GB

not stated

Included storage

1.3 TB

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

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 spotnot published vs not published

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

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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 17 Sept 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 17 Sept 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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