Pricing

You pay only for the resources you use, billed per second.

Resource	Hourly rate	Per-second rate
H100	$2.95 / GPU	$0.000819 / GPU
A100	$1.95 / GPU	$0.000542 / GPU
vCPU	$0.051 / vCPU	$0.0000142 / vCPU
Memory	$0.016 / GiB	$0.00000444 / GiB
Storage	$0.00012 / GiB	$0.0000000333 / GiB

Rates are in USD. Per-second rates are rounded for display.

Cost comparison

The rates below compare each provider’s published pay-as-you-go sandbox pricing as of August 27, 2026.

Resource	Thunder	Modal	Daytona
H100 GPU (per GPU-hour)	$2.95	$3.95	$3.95
vCPU (per vCPU-hour)	$0.051	$0.0710	$0.0504
Memory (per GiB-hour)	$0.016	$0.0240	$0.0162
Sandbox storage (per GiB-hour)	$0.00012	Included	$0.000108 after 5 GiB

See the published Modal pricing and Daytona pricing for current rates.

Representative monthly costs

Each scenario assumes one H100 GPU per sandbox and that every sandbox runs for the listed number of hours during the month. For example, 100 sandboxes running for 200 hours each equals 20,000 total sandbox-hours.

Scenario, sandbox specification, and monthly usage	Thunder	Modal	Daytona
Development 1 H100, 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, 50 GiB storage 100 sandboxes × 200 hours	$68.3K	$92.4K	$88.3K
Team 1 H100, 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 200 GiB storage 300 sandboxes × 400 hours	$467K	$634K	$587K
Production 1 H100, 16 vCPU, 64 GiB RAM, 200 GiB storage 1,000 sandboxes × 600 hours	$2.89M	$3.97M	$3.49M

How the estimates are calculated

For Thunder and Daytona, monthly cost is sandbox count × hours × (H100 rate + vCPU × vCPU rate + RAM × memory rate + billable storage × storage rate).For Modal, monthly cost is sandbox count × hours × (H100 rate + vCPU × vCPU rate + RAM × memory rate) because Sandbox storage is included.

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