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Render vs Salad

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What's good about...

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery and high availability
  • Flat workspace fee with unlimited team members, no per-seat billing
  • Free tier covers web services, Postgres and Key Value

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 Render's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Render Render
$25.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Render Render
$175.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Render Render
$450.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Render Render
$25.00 /mo 100 GB
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Render Render
Included in plan
Salad Salad
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Managed PostgreSQL

Render Render
$90.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Basic-4gb) · $75 instance + 50 GB storage at $0.30 / GB
Salad Salad
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Managed Redis®*

Render Render
$32.00 /mo 1 GB RAM (Key Value Standard)
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Render Render
5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale)
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Render Render
$150.00 $0.15 / 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

Billing Options

Render Render
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Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models.

Render Render
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Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060(4) 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 Render and Salad offer:

Service Render Salad
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Serverless Cron Jobs
Static Sites

Company details

Website
Render Render
render.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Render Render
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Render Render
2018
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Render Render
4
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Render Render
Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

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Our data for Render was last updated on July 27, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.