Salad vs Vast.ai
Salad is another distributed GPU cloud with a similar cost-saving model, but Vast.ai often features a more complex bidding and auction system for its instances.
What's good about...
Salad
- Wide range of affordable GPUs
- Deploy to thousands of instances worldwide
- Built-in object storage and managed databases
Vast.ai
- Large pool of over 20,000 GPUs
- Over 68 GPU types across 40+ data centers
- Enterprise-grade security with SOC2 certification
- Pre-built templates including PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorFlow
Price comparison
How do Salad's prices compare against Vast.ai?
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Vast.ai Pricing Details
Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:
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Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.
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Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).
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Bandwidth costs for data transfer.
GPU Fleet Overview
Starting Price
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Billing Options
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Available Models
Salad offers 33 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 53.
RTX 4090Heads up: We do our best to keep these prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates with the provider before provisioning.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Salad and Vast.ai offer:
Company details
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Our data for Salad was last updated on June 7, 2026, and for Vast.ai on June 7, 2026.