What's good about...
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
Shadeform
- Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
- Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
- You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
- Free to use, zero mark-up fees
Price comparison
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
Billing Options
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Available Models
Salad offers 35 GPU models.
RTX 5090Heads 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 Salad and Shadeform offer:
Company details
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| Website | salad.com | shadeform.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
| Example Customers | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai | University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1 |
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Shadeform on July 9, 2026.