Modal Nvidia L4 vs RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud
Prices checked
The same L4 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Modal Nvidia L4. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.59/GPU-hr against $0.80/GPU-hr.
ModalNvidia L4
1x L4 · 24 GB · 3.3¢/GB-hr
$0.80/GPU-hr$0.80/hr for the machine · $134 a weekServerless
RunPodWins 2 roundsL4 · Secure Cloud
1x L4 · 24 GB · 2.5¢/GB-hr
$0.59/GPU-hr$0.59/hr for the machine · $99 a week
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$0.80/GPU-hr
$0.59/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
3.3¢/GB-hr
2.5¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
24 GB
24 GB
GPUs per instance
1x L4
1x L4
vCPU
not published
12
RAM
not published
50 GB
Included storage
none · volumes extra
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$0.80/hr vs $0.59/hr
- A day$19 vs $14
- A week$134 vs $99
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
Modal, then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount.
Go further
Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
- $0.59/GPU-hr $0.49/GPU-hr
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Modal Nvidia L4 or RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud?
- RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud, at $0.59/GPU-hr against $0.80/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.59/hr against $0.80/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?
- $134 for Modal Nvidia L4 and $99 for RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud, 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?
- Modal Nvidia L4: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod L4 · Secure Cloud: 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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