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Fly.io vs Salad

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What's good about...

Fly.io logo Fly.io

  • Excellent tooling and developer experience
  • Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
  • Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
  • Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost

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 Fly.io's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Fly.io Fly.io
$5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Fly.io Fly.io
$42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Fly.io Fly.io
$248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Fly.io Fly.io
$15.00 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Fly.io Fly.io
$20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris)
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Fly.io Fly.io
Included with apps
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Fly.io Fly.io
$86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter)
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Fly.io Fly.io
$20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB)
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Fly.io Fly.io
$20.00 $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe)
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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

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Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models.

Fly.io Fly.io
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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 Fly.io and Salad offer:

Service Fly.io Salad
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Fly.io Fly.io
fly.io
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Fly.io Fly.io
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Fly.io Fly.io
2017
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Fly.io Fly.io
18
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Fly.io Fly.io
Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.