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Lambda Labs vs Salad

Lambda rents multi-GPU datacenter nodes sized for training runs, while Salad rents single consumer cards sized for inference and batch work.

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What's good about...

Lambda Labs logo Lambda Labs

  • Offers high-performance GPUs such as the Nvidia H100, H200, and GH200
  • Easy to use dashboard and competitive prices
  • Private cloud available (isolated, physical access)

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 Lambda Labs's prices compare against Salad?

Block Storage

Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
$20.00 /mo 100 GB @ $0.20/GB/mo
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
Free and unlimited
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

Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
On-Demand
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Lambda Labs offers 8 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
H100(5) A100(6) B200(3) RTX A6000(3) V100(2) A10(1) GH200(1) Quadro RTX 6000(1)
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)
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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 Lambda Labs and Salad offer:

Service Lambda Labs Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Company details

Website
Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
lambda.ai
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
2012
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
15
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Lambda Labs Lambda Labs
Intuitive, Writer, Sony, Samsung, Pika
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Lambda Labs was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.