diff --git a/pkg/provider/aws/aws.go b/pkg/provider/aws/aws.go
index 80f7cce..c50e8a3 100644
--- a/pkg/provider/aws/aws.go
+++ b/pkg/provider/aws/aws.go
@@ -749,16 +749,12 @@ func (p *Provider) ClassifyProvisionError(err error, accelerator, region string)
 const awsAMIRootGiB = 30
 
 // awsMaxDiskGiB is the most user space a Pod may ask for: gp3's 16 TiB volume cap less the OS
-// base. Refused at launch and unpriced above it, so it never reaches rootVolume's int32.
+// base. Refused at launch, so it never reaches rootVolume's int32.
 const awsMaxDiskGiB = 16*1024 - awsAMIRootGiB
 
 // PricePerHour overrides catalog.Base to add the root volume, which EBS bills by provisioned
 // size apart from the instance. It prices the size sdkClient.rootVolume launches.
 func (p *Provider) PricePerHour(req provider.PriceRequest) (float64, error) {
-	if req.DiskGiB > awsMaxDiskGiB {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("aws: %d GiB disk exceeds the %d GiB a root volume can add: %w",
-			req.DiskGiB, awsMaxDiskGiB, provider.ErrNoPrice)
-	}
 	rate, err := p.Base.PricePerHour(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, err
diff --git a/pkg/provider/aws/aws_test.go b/pkg/provider/aws/aws_test.go
index 4137678..ceea8d2 100644
--- a/pkg/provider/aws/aws_test.go
+++ b/pkg/provider/aws/aws_test.go
@@ -1091,10 +1091,6 @@ func TestPricePerHour_AddsRootVolume(t *testing.T) {
 	if !errors.Is(err, provider.ErrNoPrice) {
 		t.Fatalf("PricePerHour(unknown accelerator) err = %v, want ErrNoPrice", err)
 	}
-	req.DiskGiB = awsMaxDiskGiB + 1
-	if _, err = p.PricePerHour(req); !errors.Is(err, provider.ErrNoPrice) {
-		t.Fatalf("PricePerHour(above awsMaxDiskGiB) err = %v, want ErrNoPrice", err)
-	}
 }
 
 func TestProvision_SizesDiskFromEphemeralStorage(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/provider/modal/modal.go b/pkg/provider/modal/modal.go
index 995700a..4470fbe 100644
--- a/pkg/provider/modal/modal.go
+++ b/pkg/provider/modal/modal.go
@@ -413,13 +413,8 @@ const modalFreeDiskGiB = 512
 // would be read as free. A GPU sandbox in that state still prices, understating by those
 // same defaults, which is immaterial beside the accelerator.
 //
-// Disk adds nothing up to modalFreeDiskGiB; above it is ErrNoPrice, since such a Pod is
-// never launched (see sandboxSpecFromPod).
+// Disk adds nothing: Pods asking for more than modalFreeDiskGiB are never launched.
 func (p *Provider) PricePerHour(req provider.PriceRequest) (float64, error) {
-	if req.DiskGiB > modalFreeDiskGiB {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("modal: %d GiB disk exceeds the unbilled %d GiB: %w",
-			req.DiskGiB, modalFreeDiskGiB, provider.ErrNoPrice)
-	}
 	metered := data.ModalCPUCostPerHour(req.CPUCores) + data.ModalMemoryCostPerHour(req.MemoryMiB)
 
 	if req.AcceleratorType == "" {
diff --git a/pkg/provider/modal/modal_test.go b/pkg/provider/modal/modal_test.go
index eacc966..fe8d5ec 100644
--- a/pkg/provider/modal/modal_test.go
+++ b/pkg/provider/modal/modal_test.go
@@ -2028,10 +2028,6 @@ func TestPricePerHour_NoPrice(t *testing.T) {
 			AcceleratorType: "TPU-v4", Count: 1,
 			CapacityType: nebulav1alpha1.CapacityOnDemand, CPUCores: 4, MemoryMiB: 8192,
 		},
-		"disk above the unbilled quota": {
-			AcceleratorType: "H100", Count: 1, CapacityType: nebulav1alpha1.CapacityOnDemand,
-			CPUCores: 4, MemoryMiB: 8192, DiskGiB: modalFreeDiskGiB + 1,
-		},
 	} {
 		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			got, err := p.PricePerHour(req)