What's good about...

GPU.ai logo GPU.ai

  • Per-second billing with no minimum commitment
  • Aggregates capacity across 14+ upstream providers on three continents
  • Public pricing API exposing live per-region availability counts
  • No egress or networking fees

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

GPU.ai logo GPU.ai Pricing

Billed per second, from the moment an instance reaches SSH-ready until it is stopped, with no minimums and no idle reservation fees. On-demand rates vary by region and upstream provider, and the platform routes each launch to the cheapest one with stock. Reserved capacity is quote-only and arranged with sales.

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

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

GPU.ai GPU.ai
Salad Salad
RTX 5090 $0.39 $0.45 RTX 4090 $0.34 $0.30 RTX 3090 $0.15 $0.25 RTX 5080 $0.29 $0.42

Billing Options

GPU.ai GPU.ai
On-Demand
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

Here are some managed services that GPU.ai and Salad offer:

Company details

Website
GPU.ai GPU.ai
gpu.ai
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
GPU.ai GPU.ai
United Arab Emirates AE flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
GPU.ai GPU.ai
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Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
GPU.ai GPU.ai
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Salad Salad
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Example Customers
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Salad Salad
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Our data for GPU.ai was last updated on Sept. 10, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 10, 2026.