Nova Cloud
vs
Salad
Both rent RTX 5090 GPUs with spot pricing. Nova Cloud rents dedicated VMs with RTX PRO 6000 cards from its own Canadian datacenter, while Salad runs containers across idle consumer GPUs at four priority tiers.
What's good about each
- Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
- Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
- Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
- 5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available
GPUs
Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Nova Cloud | Salad | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
20 configs · 2 configs
|
$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 24% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX PRO 6000
20 configs
|
$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | -- | Nova Cloud only |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.16 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs
|
-- | $0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad 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 |
|
RTX 5070 Ti
2 configs
|
-- | $0.10 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
|
RTX 4070
2 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Salad only |
Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months); Salad bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Nova Cloud | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Nova Cloud | 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 | Nova Cloud | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Canada | USA |
| Locations | 1 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
| Website | nova-cloud.ai | salad.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Salad on Oct. 1, 2026.