Salad
Affordable cloud for AI/ML inference
Salad is the largest distributed cloud network, helping businesses to deploy AI/ML production models at scale securely. Save up to 90% on compute costs compared to high-end GPUs & hyperscalers by running containerized workloads on thousands of idle consumer and data center GPUs contributed by suppliers worldwide.
Example customers include Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai. More here.
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What's good about Salad
- Wide range of affordable GPUs
- Deploy to thousands of instances worldwide
- Built-in object storage and managed databases
Salad pricing examples
Salad uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model where you are billed hourly for the resources consumed. Pricing for compute is broken down by component, costing $0.004/hr per vCPU and $0.001/hr per GB of memory, in addition to the hourly rate for the selected GPU.
Below are some example configurations and their estimated costs:
| Example configuration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | Free and unlimited |
Salad GPUs
Based on our data, Salad may have GPUs in the following configurations:
| GPU | Total VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Billing | $/GPU/h | Total/h | |
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1x RTX 4090 PCIe
1x RTX 4090 24GB PCIe
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24GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.18 | $0.18 | View |
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1x RTX 5090 PCIe
1x RTX 5090 32GB PCIe
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32GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.27 | $0.27 | View |
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1x A5000 PCIe
1x A5000 24GB PCIe
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24GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.11 | $0.11 | View |
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1x RTX 3090 PCIe
1x RTX 3090 24GB PCIe
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24GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.11 | $0.11 | View |
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1x RTX 4080 PCIe
1x RTX 4080 16GB PCIe
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16GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.13 | $0.13 | View |
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1x RTX 5080 PCIe
1x RTX 5080 16GB PCIe
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16GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.20 | $0.20 | View |
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1x RTX 3060 Ti PCIe
1x RTX 3060 Ti 8GB PCIe
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8GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.05 | $0.05 | View |
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1x RTX 3070 PCIe
1x RTX 3070 8GB PCIe
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8GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.06 | $0.06 | View |
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1x RTX 3080 Ti PCIe
1x RTX 3080 Ti 12GB PCIe
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12GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.10 | $0.10 | View |
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1x RTX 2070 PCIe
1x RTX 2070 8GB PCIe
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8GB | 4 | 8GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $0.0440 | $0.0440 | View |
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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. You can find Salad's latest pricing here.
Which services does Salad offer
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Alternatives to Salad
Compare Salad against other cloud providers:
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Hyperstack
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Lambda Labs
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Paperspace
Paperspace is a cloud platform offering a range of GPU instances and a suite of tools (Gradient) to build, train, and deploy ML models.
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Runpod
RunPod is a cloud platform for AI/ML, providing affordable GPU instances from both secure data centers and a community cloud.
Our data for Salad was last updated on June 19, 2026.