What's good about...

Hetzner logo Hetzner

  • High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
  • Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
  • EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some

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 Hetzner's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Hetzner Hetzner
$6.94 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX23)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Hetzner Hetzner
$10.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX33)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Hetzner Hetzner
$19.12 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX43)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Hetzner Hetzner
$5.10 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Hetzner Hetzner
$7.52 /mo 1 TB
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Hetzner Hetzner
$8.68 /mo LB11
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Hetzner Hetzner
1-60 TB / mo per instance
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hetzner Hetzner
$1.16 €1 / TB
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

Hetzner Hetzner
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 Hetzner and Salad offer:

Company details

Website
Hetzner Hetzner
hetzner.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Hetzner Hetzner
Germany DE flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Hetzner Hetzner
1997
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Hetzner Hetzner
6
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Hetzner Hetzner
Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.