What's free
$30/month recurring credit (Starter plan)
Rate limits
Starter: 100 containers + 10 GPU concurrency, 5 crons, 1-day log retention
The catch
Corrected from a previously listed "$5-30/month" range; this is a recurring monthly credit, not a one-time trial. Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API
Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-07-30 Updated OpenAI compatibility
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub