What's good about...

Packet·ai logo Packet·ai

  • Deploy GPUs in <5 minutes
  • Free, unlimited data egress
  • OpenAI-compatible API for inference
  • Based in EU, may ease compliance requirements

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

How do Packet·ai's prices compare against Salad?

Block Storage

Packet·ai Packet·ai
$7.20 /mo 100 GB ($0.01 per 100 GB/hour)
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Packet·ai Packet·ai
$18.00 /mo 1 TB stored (hot tier, S3-compatible)
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Packet·ai Packet·ai
$40.00 $0.04/GB
Salad Salad
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

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.

Packet·ai Packet·ai
Salad Salad
RTX 4090 $0.39 $0.30

Billing Options

Packet·ai Packet·ai
On-DemandCustom
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

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 Packet·ai and Salad offer:

Company details

Website
Packet·ai Packet·ai
packet.ai
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Packet·ai Packet·ai
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Packet·ai Packet·ai
2026
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Packet·ai Packet·ai
8
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Packet·ai was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.