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 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.
Billing Options
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Available Models
Runcrate offers 16 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.
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 Runcrate and Salad offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.runcrate.ai | salad.com |
| Headquarters |
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| 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 Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.