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Heroku vs Salad

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What's good about...

Heroku logo Heroku

  • Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
  • Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
  • Extensive add-on marketplace

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 Heroku's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Heroku Heroku
$50.00 /mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Heroku Heroku
$250.00 /mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Heroku Heroku
$500.00 /mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Heroku Heroku
Included in plan
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Heroku Heroku
$50.00 /mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Heroku Heroku
$200.00 /mo 1 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Heroku Heroku
2 TB / mo per app
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Heroku Heroku
Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)
Salad Salad
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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

Heroku Heroku
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Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models.

Heroku Heroku
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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)
View all 35 GPUs →

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 Heroku and Salad offer:

Service Heroku Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Performance Monitoring

Company details

Website
Heroku Heroku
heroku.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Heroku Heroku
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Heroku Heroku
2007
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Heroku Heroku
10
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Heroku Heroku
Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.