Salad
vs
SwissGPU
What's good about each
- 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
- Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
- Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
- Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
- No storage or bandwidth charges
- Stripe payments including TWINT
GPUs
Salad offers 35 GPU models, while SwissGPU offers 7. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Salad | SwissGPU | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs · 1 config
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs · 1 config
|
$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.48 /GPU/hr On-demand | 31% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs · 1 config
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | 43% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs · 1 config
|
$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | 13% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 4080
2 configs · 1 config
|
$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs
|
$0.03 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5070
2 configs
|
$0.08 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | SwissGPU only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
-- | $1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | SwissGPU only |
Salad bills on-demand and spot; SwissGPU bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Salad | SwissGPU |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Salad | SwissGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Salad | SwissGPU |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | -- |
| Headquarters | USA | Switzerland |
| Locations | -- | 1 |
| Example customers | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai | EduID, Liset Capital, SPH |
| Website | salad.com | www.swissgpu.ch |
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for SwissGPU on Sept. 18, 2026.