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AWS vs Salad

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What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 190+ countries
  • Consumer cards from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Four priority levels trade interruption risk against cost
  • SOC 2 Type I compliant, containers isolated by hypervisor
  • No charge while your container downloads and starts

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 /mo 1 TB
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 /mo Network Load Balancer
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 /mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Salad Salad
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Serverless 25M Executions

Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per second while an instance runs, and charges nothing while a container group allocates or pulls its image.

GPU container groups are priced per GPU per hour at one of four priority levels, vCPU and RAM included. CPU-only groups bill per vCPU and per GB. Credits are prepaid, with volume discounts of 2-10%.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) H200(1) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) B200(1) L40S(24) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
View all 18 GPUs →
Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060(4) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2)
View all 35 GPUs →

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Salad offer:

Service AWS Salad
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Amazon Web Services AWS
aws.amazon.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.