What's good about...

Exoscale logo Exoscale

  • Wide range of managed services at competitive prices
  • Offers Nvidia GPUs like the RTX PRO 6000, 3080 Ti and A40
  • European cloud provider, may ease compliance requirements

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 Exoscale's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Exoscale Exoscale
$10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Exoscale Exoscale
$67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Exoscale Exoscale
$168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Exoscale Exoscale
$10.08 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Exoscale Exoscale
$19.80 /mo 1 TB (Standard)
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Exoscale Exoscale
$25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Exoscale Exoscale
$98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Exoscale Exoscale
$42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey)
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Exoscale Exoscale
1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr)
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Exoscale Exoscale
$20.00 $0.02 / GB
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

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Exoscale Exoscale
Salad Salad
A5000 $1.14 $0.25 RTX 3080 Ti $0.79 $0.20

Billing Options

Exoscale Exoscale
On-DemandCustom
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

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

Company details

Website
Exoscale Exoscale
www.exoscale.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Exoscale Exoscale
Switzerland CH flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Exoscale Exoscale
2011
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Exoscale Exoscale
8
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Exoscale Exoscale
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Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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