GPU.ai vs Salad

What's good about each

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

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

GPUs

GPU.ai offers 23 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	GPU.ai	Salad	Difference
RTX 5090 5 configs · 2 configs	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	6% cheaper on GPU.ai
RTX 4090 6 configs · 2 configs	$0.36 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	9% cheaper on Salad
RTX 3090 3 configs · 2 configs	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	12% cheaper on GPU.ai
RTX 5080 3 configs · 2 configs	$0.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand	17% cheaper on GPU.ai
RTX 3080 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	21% cheaper on GPU.ai
A5000 1 config · 2 configs	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	Within 5%
RTX 4080 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	Identical
H100 10 configs	$1.98 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	GPU.ai only
B300 2 configs	$7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	GPU.ai only
RTX 5060 Ti 2 configs	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only

All 23 GPUs on GPU.ai All 35 GPUs on Salad

GPU.ai 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	GPU.ai	Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	GPU.ai	Salad
SOC 2	--	Type I, platform only

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact	GPU.ai	Salad
Founded	--	2018
Headquarters	UAE	USA
Locations	--	--
Example customers	--	Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Website	gpu.ai	salad.com

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Our data for GPU.ai was last updated on Sept. 30, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 30, 2026.