Salad
vs
TheAI Cloud
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
- Bare metal nodes with root access, no virtualization
- Reserved terms from 1 to 24 months
- 400G InfiniBand per GPU on B300 nodes
- 3TB DDR5 per node, up to 32TB local NVMe
GPUs
Salad offers 35 GPU models, while TheAI Cloud offers 2. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Salad | TheAI Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs
|
$0.25 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs
|
$0.16 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs
|
$0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs
|
$0.03 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs
|
$0.15 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5070
2 configs
|
$0.08 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5070 Ti
2 configs
|
$0.10 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
B300
5 configs
|
-- | $5.30 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
|
B200
5 configs
|
-- | $4.50 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | TheAI Cloud only |
Salad bills on-demand and spot; TheAI Cloud bills reserved (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Salad | TheAI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Salad | TheAI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | TheAI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | -- |
| Headquarters | USA | UAE |
| Locations | -- | 1 |
| Example customers | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai | -- |
| Website | salad.com | cloud.theai.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for TheAI Cloud on Oct. 2, 2026.