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Civo vs Salad

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What's good about...

Civo logo Civo

  • Kubernetes clusters deploy in under 90 seconds
  • Simple CLI and API with straightforward tooling
  • Transparent, predictable pricing with no hidden fees
  • GPU infrastructure including NVIDIA B200 for AI training and inference
  • UK-headquartered with data residency options
  • LLM inference with pay-per-token access to open-source models (GPT-OSS-120b, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi-K25) with up to 500k context windows

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 Civo's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Civo Civo
$5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Civo Civo
$43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Civo Civo
$86.91 /mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Civo Civo
$10.00 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Civo Civo
$10.00 /mo 1 TB, unlimited data transfer
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Civo Civo
$10.86 /mo Single node
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Civo Civo
$43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Civo Civo
$20.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Civo Civo
Free and unlimited
Salad Salad
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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

Civo Civo
On-DemandReserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Reserved (24mo)Reserved (36mo)
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Civo offers 6 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Civo Civo
H100(10) H200(10) A100(40) L40S(20) B200(3) B300(4)
Salad Salad
RTX 4090(2) RTX 5090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 3080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2)
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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 Civo and Salad offer:

Service Civo Salad
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Civo Civo
civo.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Civo Civo
United Kingdom GB flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Civo Civo
2015
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Civo Civo
5
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Civo Civo
Oxford University, Orbital Materials, TrueFoundry, Fermyon, Defense.com™
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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