Lium vs Salad

Both rent RTX 3090 to 5090 GPUs with spot pricing from distributed hosts. Lium rents whole machines per minute with root access, while Salad runs containers across idle gaming PCs at four priority tiers.

What's good about each

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

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

GPUs

Lium offers 13 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Lium	Salad	Difference
RTX 5090 12 configs · 2 configs	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	Identical
RTX 4090 5 configs · 2 configs	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	25% cheaper on Salad
RTX 3090 5 configs · 2 configs	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	6% cheaper on Lium
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config · 2 configs	$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot	$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot	77% cheaper on Salad
H100 6 configs	$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
B300 3 configs	$9.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
B200 3 configs	$5.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
RTX 3060 4 configs	--	$0.03 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only
RTX 5080 2 configs	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only
RTX 5070 2 configs	--	$0.08 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only

All 13 GPUs on Lium All 35 GPUs on Salad

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

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Lium	Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

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

Framework	Lium	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	Lium	Salad
Founded	2024	2018
Headquarters	Saint Kitts and Nevis	USA
Locations	23	--
Example customers	--	Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Website	lium.io	salad.com

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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 28, 2026.