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
TensorWave
- Offers AMD GPUs as an alternative to Nvidia-based platforms
- Full AMD Instinct™ lineup: MI300X, MI325X, MI355X, with MI455X announced
- Managed Kubernetes and Slurm available on top of bare metal
- SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified
- Raised a $350M Series B
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%.
TensorWave Pricing
TensorWave publishes a starting per-GPU hourly rate for each bare metal node and quotes the final price through sales. There is no self-serve signup.
MI455X capacity on Helios racks can be reserved ahead of launch, with no rate announced.
GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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Available Models
Salad offers 35 GPU models, while TensorWave offers 4.
RTX 5090
MI300XHeads 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 TensorWave offer:
Company details
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| Website | salad.com | tensorwave.com |
| Headquarters |
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| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 2 |
| Example Customers | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai | -- |
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for TensorWave on Aug. 31, 2026.