Novita vs Salad

Both rent RTX 4090 and 5090 GPUs with spot pricing. Novita adds A100 and H100 datacenter cards, notebooks and an open-model API, while Salad runs containers across idle consumer GPUs at four priority tiers.

What's good about each

Novita

Wide range of GPU options from RTX 3090 to H200
Spot pricing available for up to 50% cost savings
Offers serverless endpoints, bare metal, and cloud instances

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

Novita offers 5 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Novita	Salad	Difference
RTX 5090 20 configs · 2 configs	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	11% cheaper on Salad
RTX 4090 20 configs · 2 configs	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	Identical
H100 20 configs	$1.70 /GPU/hr Spot	--	Novita only
L40S 8 configs	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Novita only
RTX 6000 Ada 20 configs	$0.39 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	--	Novita 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

All 5 GPUs on Novita All 35 GPUs on Salad

Novita bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Salad bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Novita	Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Python Notebooks

Compliance

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

Framework	Novita	Salad
SOC 2	Type II	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	Novita	Salad
Founded	2023	2018
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	16	--
Example customers	beBee, Fish Audio, Gizmo, Wiz.ai	Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Website	novita.ai	salad.com

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Our data for Novita was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Salad on Oct. 1, 2026.