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Nova Cloud vs Salad

Nova Cloud provides dedicated GPU virtual machines from its own datacenters, whereas Salad runs containerized workloads across a distributed network of idle consumer and data center GPUs, trading some reliability for lower cost.

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What's good about...

Nova Cloud logo Nova Cloud

  • 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

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

Salad logo 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.

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
Salad Salad
RTX 5090 $0.63 $0.45

Billing Options

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(20) RTX 5090(20)
Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 3080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2)
View all 35 GPUs →

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 Nova Cloud and Salad offer:

Service Nova Cloud Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Company details

Website
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
nova-cloud.ai
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
Canada CA flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
2018
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
1
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.