Salad
vs
Vast.ai
Both rent GTX and RTX consumer GPUs from distributed hosts with spot pricing. Salad runs containers per card class and priority tier, while Vast.ai rents whole machines from hosts who set their own rates.
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 61. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Salad | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs · 148 configs
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 19% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs · 138 configs
|
$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | 5% cheaper on Salad |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs · 79 configs
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | 19% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs · 75 configs
|
$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand | 20% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs · 38 configs
|
$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.06 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs · 40 configs
|
$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
RTX 5070
2 configs · 13 configs
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | 6% cheaper on Salad |
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RTX 5070 Ti
2 configs · 17 configs
|
$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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RTX 3080
2 configs · 36 configs
|
$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand | 14% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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RTX 4070
2 configs · 9 configs
|
$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand | 18% 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 |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Salad | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type I, platform only | Type II, platform only |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
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
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Oct. 6, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 6, 2026.