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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.

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What's good about...

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries
  • Consumer GPU range from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Rates well below datacenter GPU clouds
  • Fully managed container engine, Kubernetes-compatible deployments
  • Secure Cloud option for enterprise datacenter GPUs

Vast.ai logo 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

Salad logo Salad Pricing

Salad bills per hour for resources actually consumed, with no commitments. Instances are priced by component, combining the GPU rate with per-vCPU and per-GB memory rates, plus a priority level that trades cost against scheduling preference. Volume discounts are available for large deployments.

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing

Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:

  1. Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.

  2. Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).

  3. Bandwidth costs for data transfer.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Salad Salad
Vast.ai Vast.ai
RTX 5090 $0.25 $0.33 RTX 4090 $0.16 $0.26 RTX 3090 $0.09 $0.10 RTX 5060 Ti $0.09 $0.07

Billing Options

Salad Salad
On-Demand
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Reserved (24mo)Reserved (36mo)Reserved (48mo)

Available Models

Salad offers 33 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 63.

Salad Salad
RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1) A5000(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 3080 Ti(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 3070(1) RTX 3060 Ti(1) RTX 3080(1) RTX 5080(1)
View all 33 GPUs →
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(33) A100(99) H200(61) RTX PRO 6000(52) L40S(12) B200(12) B300(2) V100(17) RTX A6000(9) RTX 5090(133)
View all 63 GPUs →

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Salad and Vast.ai offer:

Service Salad Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Salad Salad
salad.com
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Salad Salad
United States of America
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America
Founded
Salad Salad
2018
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Salad Salad
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Salad was last updated on Aug. 26, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Aug. 27, 2026.