What's good about...
Runcrate
- Per-second GPU billing with no minimum commitment
- Eight global regions across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Full root access with SSH, Docker, and custom images
- OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source models
Price comparison
Runcrate Pricing
Per-second billing on GPU compute with no minimum commitment: stop the instance to stop the meter. Inference is billed per token against a public rate card. Reserved and dedicated capacity is available with volume discounts on monthly commitments.
Salad Pricing
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.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
Cheapest rate per GPU per hour for the cards both providers sell, compared on a billing mode they both publish.On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
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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.Runcrate offers 14 GPU models, while Salad offers 33.
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 Runcrate and Salad offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.runcrate.ai | salad.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America | United States of America |
| Founded | 2024 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
| Example Customers | -- | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
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Our data for Runcrate was last updated on Aug. 22, 2026, and for Salad on Aug. 21, 2026.