What is the difference between GMI Cloud and Modal?

GMI Cloud and Modal are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: GMI Cloud or Modal?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between GMI Cloud and Modal?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 12 different GPU models across both GMI Cloud and Modal, with 0 models available from both providers.

GMI Cloud vs Modal

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between GMI Cloud and Modal. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

GMI Cloud

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

GMI Cloud GPUs

Modal GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $2.05/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 12Both available: 3GMI Cloud: 4Modal: 11

Showing 12 of 12 GPUs

Last updated: 9/24/2026, 8:34:33 AM

GPU Model ↑	GMI Cloud Price	Modal Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $1.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$2.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $2.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$2.50/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $2.50/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$4.00/hr★ Best	$6.25/hr	↓$2.25(36.0%)	GMI Cloud Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $4.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $6.25/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$2.25(36.0%) GMI Cloud Modal
GB200 384GB VRAM • GMI Cloud	$8.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	GMI Cloud
GB200 384GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $8.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Not Available GMI Cloud
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$2.00/hr★ Best	$3.95/hr	↓$1.95(49.4%)	GMI Cloud Modal
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $2.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $3.95/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.95(49.4%) GMI Cloud Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$2.60/hr★ Best	$4.54/hr	↓$1.94(42.7%)	GMI Cloud Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $2.60/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $4.54/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.94(42.7%) GMI Cloud Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$7.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $7.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
L4 24GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$0.80/hr★ Best	—	Modal
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $0.80/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
L40S 48GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$1.95/hr★ Best	—	Modal
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $1.95/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$3.03/hr★ Best	—	Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $3.03/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$0.59/hr★ Best	—	Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $0.59/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal

A10 24GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $1.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$2.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $2.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$2.50/hr★ Best	—	Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $2.50/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$4.00/hr★ Best	$6.25/hr	↓$2.25(36.0%)	GMI Cloud Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $4.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $6.25/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$2.25(36.0%) GMI Cloud Modal
GB200 384GB VRAM • GMI Cloud	$8.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	GMI Cloud
GB200 384GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $8.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Not Available GMI Cloud
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$2.00/hr★ Best	$3.95/hr	↓$1.95(49.4%)	GMI Cloud Modal
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $2.00/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $3.95/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.95(49.4%) GMI Cloud Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • GMI CloudModal	$2.60/hr★ Best	$4.54/hr	↓$1.94(42.7%)	GMI Cloud Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • GMI Cloud $2.60/hour Updated: 9/23/2026 ★Best Price Modal $4.54/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.94(42.7%) GMI Cloud Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$7.10/hr★ Best	—	Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $7.10/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
L4 24GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$0.80/hr★ Best	—	Modal
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $0.80/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
L40S 48GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$1.95/hr★ Best	—	Modal
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $1.95/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$3.03/hr★ Best	—	Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $3.03/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal	Not Available	$0.59/hr★ Best	—	Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Not Available Modal $0.59/hour Updated: 9/24/2026 ★Best Price Modal

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 64Both available: 0GMI Cloud: 64Modal: 0

Showing 15 of 64 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 9/24/2026, 8:34:33 AM

Model ↑	GMI Cloud	Modal	Input Diff ↕
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek	$0.570 in $2.29 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	$0.290 in $1.14 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.209 in $0.310 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	$0.091 in $0.182 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision DeepSeek	$0.440 in $1.32 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$0.957 in $1.91 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	$0.225 in $0.900 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3 Flash Google	$0.500 in $3.00 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google	$0.250 in $1.50 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google	$2.00 in $12.00 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google	$1.50 in $9.00 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google	$0.300 in $2.50 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	$1.50 in $7.50 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google	$0.750 in $3.75 out	Not available	—
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google	$0.750 in $3.75 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

GMI Cloud

Serverless Inference
OpenAI-compatible endpoints for LLM and multimodal models with request batching and scaling to zero
Dedicated GPU Compute
Managed Kubernetes clusters, container instances, and bare-metal servers with RDMA-ready networking
Blackwell Capacity
GB200 available and GB300 on pre-order alongside H100, H200, and B200 systems
Studio and AgentBox
Visual workflow builder for multi-step model pipelines plus a marketplace for publishing and using AI agents
Reserved + On-Demand
Both hourly on-demand capacity and longer-term committed reservations are published

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Serverless GPUs
Run Python functions on NVIDIA GPUs without provisioning instances; cold starts in seconds
Per-Second Billing
Pay for actual GPU runtime at sub-minute granularity, with scale-to-zero by default
Container-Native
Define environments in code, with automatic image building and caching
Wide GPU Catalog
From T4 and L4 through A100, L40S, H100, H200 and B200

Pros & Cons

GMI Cloud

Advantages

Transparent published per-GPU hourly rates
Access to current Blackwell-generation systems
OpenAI-compatible inference API alongside dedicated GPU clusters

Considerations

Smaller global footprint than hyperscalers
Newer entrant relative to long-established providers
Published GPU catalog covers only datacenter-class parts, with no lower-tier options such as L4 or L40S

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Advantages

Serverless model removes idle-instance costs
Per-second billing across the full GPU range
Strong fit for inference, batch jobs and ML pipelines

Considerations

Long-running, fixed-instance training is not the primary use case
Cold starts and storage limits require some application design
No bare-metal access; workloads run inside Modal's runtime

Compute Services

GMI Cloud

Modal

Pricing Options

GMI Cloud

On-Demand Containers

Hourly billing for self-serve GPU containers

Reserved Private Cloud

Discounted longer-term reservations of dedicated GPU clusters

Serverless Inference

Per-token billing for LLM endpoints and per-request billing for image and video models

Modal

Per-Second GPU Billing

Charged per second of GPU runtime, with scale-to-zero when idle

Free Tier

Monthly free credits for experimentation and personal projects

Team and Enterprise Plans

Volume commitments and enterprise support for production deployments

Getting Started

GMI Cloud

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for the GMI Cloud console
2
Pick a GPU and region
Select an on-demand container, bare-metal cluster, or inference endpoint
3
Deploy your workload
Launch via the console or programmatically through the GMI API

Modal

Get Started

1
Install the SDK
Run `pip install modal` and authenticate via the CLI
2
Define a function
Decorate a Python function with the desired GPU and image specification
3
Run or deploy
Invoke locally or deploy as a long-lived endpoint or scheduled job

Support & Global Availability

GMI Cloud

Global Regions

Data centers in North America and Asia, with region-aware pricing and unified billing

Support

Documentation, self-service console, Discord community, and enterprise support via sales

Modal

Global Regions

Multi-region availability across North America and Europe

Support

Documentation, community forum, and enterprise support for paid plans