Lade logo Lade vs Salad logo Salad

What's good about each

  • Simple deployment process with support for multiple programming languages
  • High-availability infrastructure with automatic failover
  • Managed databases with automated daily backups
  • Real-time log collection and monitoring
  • 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

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service Lade Salad Difference
Small VM $10.00 /mo 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM -- Not listed
Medium VM $80.00 /mo 2 CPU, 8 GB RAM -- Not listed
Block storage $9.60 /mo 64 GB -- Not listed
PostgreSQL $40.00 /mo 4 GB RAM, 32 GB storage -- Not listed
Redis $10.00 /mo 1 GB RAM -- Not listed
Load balancer Included in plan -- Not listed
Egress allowance 100 GB / mo -- Not listed
Egress $50.00 /TB $0.05 / GB -- Not listed

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

Salad offers 35 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Lade. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU Lade Salad Difference
Nvidia logo RTX 5090 2 configs -- $0.25 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 2 configs -- $0.16 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 3090 2 configs -- $0.09 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 5060 Ti 2 configs -- $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 3060 4 configs -- $0.03 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 5080 2 configs -- $0.15 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 5070 2 configs -- $0.08 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 5070 Ti 2 configs -- $0.10 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 4070 2 configs -- $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only
Nvidia logo RTX 3080 2 configs -- $0.06 /GPU/hr Spot Salad only

Salad bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Compliance

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

Framework Lade 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 Lade Salad
Founded -- 2018
Headquarters USA USA
Locations 9 --
Example customers -- Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Website lade.io salad.com

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Our data for Lade was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Salad on Oct. 2, 2026.