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Oracle Cloud vs Salad

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What's good about...

Oracle Cloud logo Oracle Cloud

  • Great price-performance ratio
  • Wide range of server configurations and managed services
  • Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
  • 10 TB of free egress per month

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries
  • Consumer GPU range from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Rates well below datacenter GPU clouds
  • Fully managed container engine, Kubernetes-compatible deployments
  • Secure Cloud option for enterprise datacenter GPUs

Price comparison

How do Oracle Cloud's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$25.57 / mo
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$7.86 / mo
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
10 TB / mo
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
$8.50 $0.0085 / GB
Salad Salad
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per hour for resources actually consumed, with no commitments. Instances are priced by component, combining the GPU rate with per-vCPU and per-GB memory rates, plus a priority level that trades cost against scheduling preference. Volume discounts are available for large deployments.

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GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
On-DemandCustom
Salad Salad
On-Demand

Available Models

Ranked by how many providers list each card. The number beside a GPU is how many instance configurations this provider sells it in, not how many are in stock.

Oracle Cloud offers 13 GPU models, while Salad offers 33.

Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
H100(1) A100(2) H200(1) RTX PRO 6000(1) L40S(1) B200(2) B300(2) V100(4) A10(3) MI300X(1)
View all 13 GPUs →
Salad Salad
RTX 4090(1) RTX 5090(1) A5000(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 3080 Ti(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 3070(1) RTX 3060 Ti(1) RTX 3080(1) RTX 5080(1)
View all 33 GPUs →

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Oracle Cloud and Salad offer:

Service Oracle Cloud Salad
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
www.oracle.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
United States of America
Salad Salad
United States of America
Founded
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
2016
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
39
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud
Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Oracle Cloud was last updated on Aug. 22, 2026, and for Salad on Aug. 22, 2026.

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