Salad
vs
Vultr
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
- 30+ locations across six continents
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs, as VMs or bare metal
- Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey and Kafka
- Outbound traffic allowance on every plan
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Salad | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $5.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $40.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $160.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB NVMe | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $18.00 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $60.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 0.5-15 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Salad offers 35 GPU models, while Vultr offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Salad | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
2 configs
|
$0.25 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 4090
2 configs
|
$0.16 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 3090
2 configs
|
$0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 5060 Ti
2 configs
|
$0.07 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
RTX 3060
4 configs
|
$0.03 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Salad only |
|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $2.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $3.20 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
|
A100
3 configs
|
-- | $1.49 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $2.59 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
|
MI300X
1 config
|
-- | $1.85 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
Salad bills on-demand and spot; Vultr bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Salad | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type I, platform only | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Merchant |
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
| Fact | Salad | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 33 |
| Example customers | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai | Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield |
| Website | salad.com | www.vultr.com |
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Our data for Salad was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vultr on Oct. 1, 2026.