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Leafcloud vs Salad

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What's good about...

Leafcloud logo Leafcloud

  • Netherlands data residency, GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II certified
  • OpenStack-based, reduced vendor lock-in
  • Free ingress and a monthly egress allowance
  • Server heat reused to warm homes and care facilities
  • NVIDIA A30, A100, H100, and RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs, VM included

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 Leafcloud's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$8.91 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (ec1.xsmall)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$71.26 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (ec1.large)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$142.53 / mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (ec1.2xlarge)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$11.62 / mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$6.97 / mo 1 TB
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$16.75 / mo Load Balancer
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Leafcloud Leafcloud
100 GB / mo
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Leafcloud Leafcloud
Fair use, no published rate
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

Leafcloud Leafcloud
On-Demand
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Leafcloud offers 4 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Leafcloud Leafcloud
H100(1) A100(4) RTX PRO 6000(3) A30(4)
Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 3080(2) RTX 4060(2) 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 Leafcloud and Salad offer:

Service Leafcloud Salad
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Databases
Managed Kubernetes
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Leafcloud Leafcloud
leaf.cloud
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Leafcloud Leafcloud
Netherlands NL flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Leafcloud Leafcloud
2020
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Leafcloud Leafcloud
1
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Leafcloud Leafcloud
Mobiel.nl, Milieudefensie, FeedbackFruits, GlobeScope, Erasmus Data Collaboratory, Brunel Solar Team
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Leafcloud was last updated on Sept. 10, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.