Gcore
vs
Salad
What's good about each
- Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
- Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
- Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
- Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | Salad | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | Salad | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs
|
$1.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
B300
1 config
|
$6.96 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
H200
1 config
|
$3.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
A100
5 configs
|
$1.46 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
$1.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
RTX 5090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.25 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.16 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs
|
-- | $0.03 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
Gcore bills on-demand; Salad bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Gcore | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Object Storage | ||
| Serverless Functions | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
| Fact | Gcore | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | USA |
| Locations | 53 | -- |
| Example customers | Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
| Website | gcore.com | salad.com |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.