Modal is a powerful serverless platform with GPUs and sandboxes. orkestr is a sandbox product that keeps everything in the EU and bills what the sandbox actually uses.
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| orkestr | Modal | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Modal Labs, Inc. (Delaware, US) |
| Where sandboxes run | EU only: Germany, Finland, France | Any region by default; EU pinning at 1.15x-1.75x |
| Data at rest | EU only: files, snapshots, logs | Logs, snapshots and volumes stored in the US |
| Isolation | A VM per sandbox, own kernel, on every tier | gVisor by default, VM runtime available |
| Billing basis | Actual on-CPU time and working-set RAM, per second | Higher of requested or used, per second |
| Rates | €0.045/vCPU-h, €0.015/GiB-h at full use | $0.1419/core-h (2 vCPU), $0.0240/GiB-h |
| Plan fee | None, pay as you go | $0 Starter (3 seats), $250/mo Team |
| Free credit | €5 credit with no card, €25 with a card | $30/month on Starter, card required |
| Session length | Up to 24 h per call; pause to keep longer | Up to 24 h |
| Egress | Included | $0.04/GiB from October 2026, 1 TiB included on Starter |
| GPUs | None | Yes, T4 to B300 |
| SDKs and tools | Python, JS, REST, CLI, MCP | Python; JS and Go in beta |
Modal prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Modal lets you pin a sandbox to an EU region, at a 1.15x surcharge for a broad region and 1.75x for a narrow one. Its own data-residency guide is clear about what that covers: application logs are stored in the United States, snapshots are stored in the United States regardless of where workloads run, durable storage for images and volumes is in the US, and sandbox create and terminate requests go through its control plane in us-east.
On orkestr there is nothing to pin. The sandbox, its files, its snapshots, its logs and the control plane all run in the EU, operated by an EU company.
Modal is a full serverless platform: functions, GPUs, autoscaling, queues, and sandboxes as one part of it. Sandboxes carry their own price list, about three times the rate of its regular functions, billed on whichever is higher of what you request and what you use.
orkestr sandboxes bill on what is actually used: real on-CPU time and working-set memory. When your agent waits on a model response, the sandbox costs close to nothing.
An AI agent product running 2,000 sandbox sessions a month, each 2 vCPU / 4 GB for 10 minutes (about 333 sandbox-hours), plus 20 GB of persistent storage, one developer.
Modal in USD, orkestr in EUR, both excl. VAT. We applied Modal's broad-region multiplier to its sandbox rate; Modal does not say whether "base pricing" means the sandbox or the function rate. Without region pinning the same workload is about $49 after credit, and with a narrow EU region about $109. Modal volumes are stored in the US, so EU-resident storage needs your own bucket. orkestr's figure is a ceiling for sandboxes running flat out.
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€5 of sandbox credit on sign-up, no credit card. Point the same agent at both and compare the bill.