Marketplace · Salt Lake City, UT · founded 2018
Salad
US distributed cloud that runs customer containers on idle consumer GPUs (GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090, plus some AMD Radeon) in homes and small businesses, with four priority tiers and per-second billing; reserved RTX PRO 6000 capacity sold by quote.
GPU types17with a current offer
Current offers116117 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from—per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.12cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries1regions not published
Trust Score v0.167/100
- Company & track record100
- Infrastructure control60
- Pricing & billing transparency85
- Reliability signals55
- Security & compliance33
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Founding year published | 2018salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Salad Technologies, Inc.salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Salad Technologies, Inc.salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Private. Seed from Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures (2018), 3.2M USD seed-plus (2020), 17M USD Series A co-led by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures (2022).salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
60 / 100
| Capacity model published | third-party hostssalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 10 |
| Regions published | 1 regions or countriessalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
85 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | included: bandwidth is not meteredsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Nothing billed: only instances in the running state are billed and there are no storage charges for containers that are not running (no persistent storage exists to bill).salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | not published; inbound connections blocked by default, public access through the Container Gateway (unique URL per group, container must be configured for IPv6)salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
55 / 100
| Status page | https://cloud-status.salad.comsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | not disclosedsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | Status page shows 100% uptime for Portal, API, Webhooks, Container Gateway and Container Registry over 90 days; docs state individual nodes have 90-95% reliability.salad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
33 / 100
| SOC 2 | Type Isalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | not disclosedsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | not disclosedsalad.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Prices by GPU · 16 GPU types with a current offerWhat Salad charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | $0.24 | $0.69 | −66% | 4 | on-demandspot | RTX 5090 prices |
| RTX 4090 | $0.44 | $0.44 | −0% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4090 prices |
| RTX 3090 | $0.20 | $0.19 | +5% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 3090 prices |
| RTX 5080 | $0.32 | $0.29 | +12% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 5080 prices |
| RTX 5060 Ti | $0.16 | $0.12 | +26% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 5060 Ti prices |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $0.27 | $0.25 | +9% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 5070 Ti prices |
| RTX 4080 | $0.27 | $0.24 | +14% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4080 prices |
| RTX 3080 | $0.16 | $0.12 | +25% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 3080 prices |
| RTX 4070 | $0.17 | $0.14 | +15% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4070 prices |
| RTX 5070 | $0.20 | $0.17 | +18% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 5070 prices |
| RTX 4060 Ti | $0.14 | $0.12 | +17% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4060 Ti prices |
| RTX 5060 | $0.12 | $0.10 | +18% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 5060 prices |
| RTX 3080 Ti | $0.20 | $0.11 | +80% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 3080 Ti prices |
| RTX 4070 Ti | $0.20 | $0.15 | +34% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4070 Ti prices |
| RTX 3090 Ti | $0.22 | $0.21 | +6% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 3090 Ti prices |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | $0.24 | $0.23 | +4% | 2 | on-demandspot | RTX 4070 Ti Super prices |
All offers · 117 readings on fileEvery Salad offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3080marketplace floor | 1× RTX 3080 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.06 | $0.06 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5060marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5060 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.07 | $0.07 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070marketplace floor | 1× RTX 4070 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.07 | $0.07 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5060 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5060 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.07 | $0.07 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5070 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.08 | $0.08 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 4070 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.08 | $0.08 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 3080 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.08 | $0.08 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4060 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 4060 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.08 | $0.08 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070 Ti Supermarketplace floor | 1× RTX 4070 Ti Super | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.09 | $0.09 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090marketplace floor | 1× RTX 3090 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.09 | $0.09 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5070 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.10 | $0.10 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5090marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5090 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.10 | $0.10 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 3090 Ti | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.10 | $0.10 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4080marketplace floor | 1× RTX 4080 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.11 | $0.11 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5060marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5060 | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.12 | $0.12 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4060 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 4060 Ti | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.14 | $0.14 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5080marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5080 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.15 | $0.15 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5060 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5060 Ti | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.16 | $0.16 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080marketplace floor | 1× RTX 3080 | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.16 | $0.16 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4090marketplace floor | 1× RTX 4090 | Spot | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.16 | $0.16 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070marketplace floor | 1× RTX 4070 | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.17 | $0.17 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 3080 Ti | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.20 | $0.20 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090marketplace floor | 1× RTX 3090 | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.20 | $0.20 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070marketplace floor | 1× RTX 5070 | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.20 | $0.20 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4070 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 4070 Ti | On-demand | SaladCloud community nodes (global) | In stock | $0.20 | $0.20 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
34 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per second
- Minimum charge
- None stated; no contracts, no minimums. Allocation, image download and cold start are not billed.
- Stopped instance
- Nothing billed: only instances in the running state are billed and there are no storage charges for containers that are not running (no persistent storage exists to bill).
- Egress
- included: bandwidth is not metered
- Public IPv4
- not published; inbound connections blocked by default, public access through the Container Gateway (unique URL per group, container must be configured for IPv6)
- Billing model
- prepaid credits
- Minimum deposit
- Manual recharge 5 USD to 10,000 USD per purchase; billing method required before first deployment; paid credits expire 12 months after purchase.
- Free credits
- No free trial (pricing page FAQ).
Account
- Payment
- card · crypto (yes: USDC, USDT and RENDER on Solana (Phantom or Solflare wallet), manual credit purchases of 5 to 10,000 USD; other tokens or larger amounts via support)
- Sign-up
- email, password, name, company name, business address, billing information (card via Stripe, or crypto), age 18+, not in a US-sanctioned country
- Identity check
- card verification
- Support
- support tickets (support.salad.com), email, discord, sales
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- not published
- Status page
- cloud-status.salad.com ↗
- Published uptime
- Status page shows 100% uptime for Portal, API, Webhooks, Container Gateway and Container Registry over 90 days; docs state individual nodes have 90-95% reliability.
Infrastructure
- Regions
- —
- Countries
- —
- Platform
- API, Jupyter, SSH, custom Docker images, spot or interruptibleSDK: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, JavaTerraform: officialKubernetes: no managed Kubernetes; Virtual Kubelet provider (Helm chart) lets an existing cluster schedule pods onto SaladCloudClusters: No multi-GPU instances on Community Cloud; horizontal scaling up to 500 replicas per container group (organisation quota). Salad Dedicated offers single- and multi-GPU RTX PRO 6000 servers by quote.
- Storage
- ephemeral · included · Container local state is ephemeral and lost on reallocation; no persistent volume product on Community Cloud.object · free · Salad Simple Storage Service (S4): temporary upload service, max 100 MB per file, files deleted after 30 days.
- Migration out
- Workloads are standard amd64 OCI containers pulled from Docker Hub, GHCR, ECR or private registries, so leaving Salad means redeploying the same image elsewhere. There are no persistent volumes to export; data already lives in the customer's own external storage. S4 files (30-day retention) can be listed and downloaded via the API. The Virtual Kubelet integration keeps Kubernetes manifests portable.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- Type I
- ISO 27001
- not published
- HIPAA
- not published
- GDPR / DPA
- not published
- Other
- SOC 2 Type I audited by Prescient Assurance; Trust Center (trust.salad.com) lists controls and subprocessors (AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare). Enterprise page states strict-regulatory workloads are often not suited to Community Cloud.
- Legal entity
- Salad Technologies, Inc.
- Funding
- Private. Seed from Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures (2018), 3.2M USD seed-plus (2020), 17M USD Series A co-led by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures (2022).
Read on the provider's own pages · 27 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Salad, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Lowest published consumer-GPU prices: RTX 4090 at 0.160 USD/GPU-h (Lowest) to 0.330 USD (High); RTX 5090 at 0.250 to 0.500 USD; other classes from 0.015 USD.
- Per-second billing that excludes allocation, image download and cold start; bandwidth not metered; vCPU and RAM included in the GPU price.
- Crypto top-ups in USDC, USDT and RENDER on Solana, alongside cards.
- Large consumer-GPU pool: 48 GPU classes listed, 16,000+ daily active GPUs claimed, nodes in 190+ countries, up to 500 replicas per container group.
- Live per-class availability counts published on the pricing page without an account.
- SDKs in four languages, official Terraform provider and a Kubernetes Virtual Kubelet provider on GitHub.
Weaknesses
- No data-center GPUs on the self-serve product: maximum 32 GB VRAM (docs), one GPU per instance, no H100, H200, A100 or B200.
- All capacity is interruptible: nodes sit on residential connections and can disconnect at any time; docs cite 90-95% node reliability and high cold-start times.
- No persistent volumes: local state is ephemeral; S4 storage is limited to 100 MB files kept 30 days.
- Container-only (OCI container in a Hyper-V Linux VM under WSL2 on the host); no VM or bare-metal access on Community Cloud.
- No SLA published for Community Cloud; SOC 2 Type I only.
- Paid credits expire 12 months after purchase and are non-refundable when the customer closes the account; no free trial.
- No named regions or data centers; location control only by country constraint.
Ideal for
- Stateless, retry-tolerant inference and batch jobs (image generation, transcription, simulation sweeps) that fit in 8 to 32 GB VRAM and scale horizontally.
- Teams optimising cost per output over latency that can run 3+ replicas behind a queue or gateway.
- Not suited to multi-GPU training, serving models above 32 GB, low-latency or regulated workloads on Community Cloud.
Not published
- Prices for the 31 GPU classes outside the pricing table (all AMD Radeon classes, RTX A5000, laptop GPUs, RTX 20 and GTX series, RTX 3060/3070 family) are not published outside the portal
- only 'from 0.015 USD per GPU-hour at Lowest' and one docs example (RTX 3060 8 GB, Low, 0.047 USD).
- vCPU and RAM amounts included per GPU class (maximum selectable) are not published on the pricing page.
- Salad Dedicated (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) prices and terms: quote only.
- Volume discounts above 100 GPUs: by sales. Prepaid credit discounts are published (2% from 10,000 USD up to 10% at 100,000-150,000 USD).
- No named regions or data centers
- nodes in '190+ countries' with no country list. Country constraints are available via the API.
- No SLA document found for Community Cloud.
- HQ city not stated on official pages (Terms are governed by Utah law, arbitration seat Salt Lake County).
- No dedicated CLI documented
- PayPal not mentioned.
- No ISO 27001, HIPAA or DPA statements found.
Observations
Pricing page shows all four priority tiers per GPU-hour in USD for 17 GPU classes without an account, plus a monthly column (Lowest x 730 h).
Live availability table with medium/high priority counts per class; 'Show all 48 GPU classes' expands to NVIDIA and AMD consumer cards down to GTX 1650.
Interactive calculator (GPU, priority, replicas) with per-hour and per-month estimates; states vCPU and RAM included and billing only while running.
Classes beyond the 17 in the table (e.g. RTX 3060, 3070, 3070 Ti) are only described as 'from 0.015 USD per GPU-hour' at Lowest, with prices in the portal.
CPU-only pricing published: 0.005 USD per vCPU-hour and 0.001 USD per GB RAM-hour.
Reserved (Salad Dedicated, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) and volume pricing (above 100 GPUs) are behind 'Talk to sales'.
Footer shows a 'SOC 2 Type I' badge and links to the Trust Center and two status pages.
Headline claims: '16,000+ daily active GPUs', '190+ countries', 'Up to 90% less than hyperscaler pricing'.
Pages read
- salad.com/pricing/ — GPU prices by priority tier, CPU pricing, billing FAQ, free trial, 48 GPU classes and live availability
- salad.com/ — Product lines, scale claims, starting price
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/billing-pricing/billing — Per-second billing, cold start not billed, RTX 3060 8 GB Low example price
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/billing-pricing/priority-pricing — Priority tier semantics
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/infrastructure-platform/availability — Minimum run before reallocation by tier
- docs.salad.com/general/explanation/billing — Prepaid model, recharge limits, cards, crypto on Solana, volume discounts, credit expiry
- docs.salad.com/general/tutorials/account-setup — Billing method required before deployment
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/core-concepts/faqs — 32 GB max VRAM, interruption, node reliability, bandwidth not metered, SSH, SOC 2 Type 1
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/reference/amd-gpus — AMD class support, WSL2 runtime
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/reference/quotas — 500 replicas per container group
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/container-groups/ssh-and-terminal — SSH and web terminal
- docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/platform-integrations/kubernetes-integration — Kubernetes integration
- docs.salad.com/storage/explanation/overview — Storage limits
- docs.salad.com/reference/api-usage — REST API, rate limit 240 requests/min
- salad.com/developers/ — SDK languages
- github.com/SaladTechnologies — Official Terraform provider, Virtual Kubelet
- salad.com/salad-container-engine/ — Platform capabilities, Hyper-V isolation, gateway, job queues
- salad.com/salad-container-engine-community/ — Hardware range, fit
- salad.com/dedicated/ — Reserved RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell by quote
- salad.com/enterprise/ — Support model, monthly invoicing, compliance fit
- salad.com/security/ — SOC 2 Type I, isolation, region constraints
- trust.salad.com/ — Controls, subprocessors
- salad.com/about/ — Founding year, funding, investors
- salad.com/terms/saladcloud/ — Sign-up data collected, prepaid, 18+, sanctions, credits refund policy, Utah law
- cloud-status.salad.com/ — Status page and 90-day uptime
- docs.salad.com/support — Support channels
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795515/000095013824000013/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml — Headquarters
Questions about Salad
What GPUs does Salad offer?
Salad has 17 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example RTX 5090 from $0.24, RTX 4090 from $0.44, RTX 3090 from $0.20, RTX 5080 from $0.32, RTX 5060 Ti from $0.16, RTX 5070 Ti from $0.27 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Salad bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Minimum charge: None stated; no contracts, no minimums. Allocation, image download and cold start are not billed. Stopped instance: Nothing billed: only instances in the running state are billed and there are no storage charges for containers that are not running (no persistent storage exists to bill).
How trustworthy is Salad?
Its Trust Score is 67/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on company & track record. Weaker on infrastructure control, reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Salad's data centres?
1 countries: —.
How do you pay Salad, and are there credits?
Payment by card, crypto. Free credits: No free trial (pricing page FAQ).. Identity check: card verification.