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Fluidstack vs Salad

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What's good about...

Fluidstack logo Fluidstack

  • Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
  • Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
  • ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
  • Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload

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

Fluidstack logo Fluidstack Pricing

Fluidstack publishes no public rates. Capacity is contracted directly and quoted per deal, and there is no self-serve hourly option or online signup.

Salad logo 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

Billing Options

Fluidstack Fluidstack
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Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models.

Fluidstack Fluidstack
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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)
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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 Fluidstack and Salad offer:

Service Fluidstack Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Company details

Website
Fluidstack Fluidstack
www.fluidstack.io
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Fluidstack Fluidstack
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Fluidstack Fluidstack
2017
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Fluidstack Fluidstack
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Example Customers
Fluidstack Fluidstack
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Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Fluidstack was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.