Runcrate vs Salad

What's good about each

Runcrate

Per-second billing on most GPUs, with booting not billed
GPU locations across North America, Europe, and Asia
Container and VM instance types
OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source models

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

Runcrate offers 21 GPU models, while Salad offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Runcrate	Salad	Difference
RTX 5090 1 config · 4 configs	$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand	17% cheaper on Salad
RTX 4090 1 config · 4 configs	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	24% cheaper on Salad
A5000 1 config · 4 configs	$2.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	88% cheaper on Salad
B300 1 config	$17.02 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Runcrate only
H100 1 config	$3.58 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Runcrate only
B200 1 config	$13.03 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Runcrate only
RTX PRO 6000 1 config	$2.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Runcrate only
RTX 3090 4 configs	--	$0.09 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only
RTX 5060 Ti 8 configs	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only
RTX 5080 4 configs	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr Spot	Salad only

All 21 GPUs on Runcrate All 35 GPUs on Salad

Runcrate bills on-demand; Salad bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Runcrate	Salad
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

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

Framework	Runcrate	Salad
SOC 2	--	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	Runcrate	Salad
Founded	2025	2018
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	--
Example customers	--	Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Website	www.runcrate.ai	salad.com

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Our data for Runcrate was last updated on Nov. 10, 2026, and for Salad on Nov. 10, 2026.