Lium vs Salad
Salad runs container workloads across consumer machines at four interruption tiers, while Lium rents whole machines with SSH root access and per-minute billing.
What's good about...
Lium
- Competitive pricing, billed per minute with no hourly minimum
- Rent a single GPU or a full 8-GPU node
- Wide range of GPU models, including H100, H200 and RTX PRO 6000
- CLI, Python SDK and an agent skill for coding agents
Price comparison
Lium Pricing
Lium bills per minute with no hourly minimum, against a prepaid balance.
Salad Pricing
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
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
Lium
Salad
Available Models
Lium offers 10 GPU models, while Salad offers 33.
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 Lium and Salad offer:
Company details
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 8, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 8, 2026.