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Hexabyte vs Salad

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What's good about...

Hexabyte logo Hexabyte

  • Affordable VPS instances with customizable specs
  • S3-compatible object storage with no egress or API fees
  • Offers dedicated servers
  • EU-based with GDPR-friendly data storage

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries
  • Consumer GPU range from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Rates well below datacenter GPU clouds
  • Fully managed container engine, Kubernetes-compatible deployments
  • Secure Cloud option for enterprise datacenter GPUs

Price comparison

How do Hexabyte's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Hexabyte Hexabyte
$4.53 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Hexabyte Hexabyte
$11.42 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Hexabyte Hexabyte
$20.61 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Hexabyte Hexabyte
$7.02 / mo 1 TB (no egress or API fees)
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Hexabyte Hexabyte
20 TB / mo per instance
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hexabyte Hexabyte
$1.17 per TB
Salad Salad
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per hour for resources actually consumed, with no commitments. Instances are priced by component, combining the GPU rate with per-vCPU and per-GB memory rates, plus a priority level that trades cost against scheduling preference. Volume discounts are available for large deployments.

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Lyceum
Our sponsor
NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr
Per-second billing with no minimum commitment or vendor lock-in
Scale to 8,000 GPUs over InfiniBand for distributed AI training
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GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Hexabyte Hexabyte
On-Demand
Salad Salad
On-Demand

Available Models

Ranked by how many providers list each card. The number beside a GPU is how many instance configurations this provider sells it in, not how many are in stock.

Hexabyte offers 1 GPU model, while Salad offers 33.

Hexabyte Hexabyte
L4(4)
Salad Salad
RTX 4090(1) RTX 5090(1) A5000(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 3080 Ti(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 3070(1) RTX 3060 Ti(1) RTX 3080(1) RTX 5080(1)
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Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Hexabyte and Salad offer:

Service Hexabyte Salad
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Hexabyte Hexabyte
hexabyte.se
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Hexabyte Hexabyte
Sweden
Salad Salad
United States of America
Founded
Hexabyte Hexabyte
2016
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Hexabyte Hexabyte
1
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Hexabyte Hexabyte
Molnett, Region Västerbotten, Umeå Kommunföretag, Enduce
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Hexabyte was last updated on Aug. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Aug. 22, 2026.

Lyceum Logo
Lyceum
Our sponsor
NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr
Per-second billing with no minimum commitment or vendor lock-in
Scale to 8,000 GPUs over InfiniBand for distributed AI training
Start now