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Salad vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Salad logo 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

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100, 1 to 8 GPUs
  • Per-minute billing, charged only while an instance runs
  • One-click VS Code and Cursor connections
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • 100 GB persistent disk per GPU, no egress fees

Price comparison

How do Salad's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

Salad Salad
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Salad Salad
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

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

Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2) RTX 5060(2)
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

Heads 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 Thunder Compute offer:

Service Salad Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Company details

Website
Salad Salad
salad.com
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Salad Salad
2018
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Salad Salad
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Salad was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.