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EmpirioLabs AI Pricing
Endpoints are pay-as-you-go against prepaid credits, with no subscription required. Billing follows the output: per token for text, per image, per second of video.
GPU instances bill per second, from allocation until they are destroyed.
Salad Pricing
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
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
EmpirioLabs AI
Salad
Available Models
EmpirioLabs AI offers 18 GPU models, while Salad offers 33.
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 EmpirioLabs AI and Salad offer:
Company details
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Salad
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| Website | empiriolabs.ai | salad.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | -- | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 6 | -- |
| Example Customers | -- | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
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Our data for EmpirioLabs AI was last updated on Sept. 9, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 9, 2026.