Salad vs Theta EdgeCloud

What's good about each

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

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

GPUs

Salad offers 35 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 17. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Salad	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
RTX 5090 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	23% cheaper on Salad
RTX 5060 Ti 2 configs · 1 config	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Within 5%
RTX 5080 2 configs · 1 config	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	20% cheaper on Salad
RTX 5070 2 configs · 1 config	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	29% cheaper on Salad
RTX 5070 Ti 2 configs · 1 config	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand	28% cheaper on Salad
RTX 4070 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Within 5%
RTX 3080 2 configs · 1 config	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	10% cheaper on Salad
RTX 4060 Ti 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand	7% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
RTX 4060 2 configs · 1 config	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand	38% cheaper on Salad
RTX 4080 2 configs · 1 config	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	29% cheaper on Salad

All 35 GPUs on Salad All 17 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

Salad bills on-demand and spot; Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Salad	Theta EdgeCloud
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Salad	Theta EdgeCloud
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	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	2018	2024
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	--
Example customers	Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	salad.com	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Salad was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Oct. 1, 2026.