Salad
vs
Vast.ai
Salad runs containers on consumer hardware across four priority levels. Vast.ai rents whole machines over SSH, from single budget cards to multi-GPU datacenter nodes.
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
- Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
- On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
- SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
- Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
GPUs
Salad offers 35 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 63. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Salad | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs · 129 configs
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs · 89 configs
|
$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | 5% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs · 66 configs
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | 34% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs · 82 configs
|
$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | 43% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs · 36 configs
|
$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.04 /GPU/hr On-demand | 49% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs · 33 configs
|
$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.18 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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RTX 5070
2 configs · 19 configs
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand | 26% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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RTX 5070 Ti
2 configs · 12 configs
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$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | 39% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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RTX 3080
2 configs · 12 configs
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$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | 33% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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A5000
2 configs · 6 configs
|
$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | 9% cheaper on Vast.ai |
Salad bills on-demand and spot; Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Salad | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Company details
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Sept. 16, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 16, 2026.