GPUBank vs Salad (SaladCloud)
Salad (SaladCloud) is run by Salad Technologies, Inc., founded in 2018, and runs customer containers on idle consumer GPUs in homes and small businesses, a distributed network of third-party nodes. It has no H100 or other data-center GPU on its self-serve product; its RTX 4090 costs $0.33 per GPU-hour at High priority and $0.16 at Lowest, against $0.23 on demand at GPUBank. Salad wins on consumer-card range and horizontal scale; GPUBank rents data-center GPUs, multi-GPU instances and persistent disks.
GPUBank
Tallinn, Estonia
RTX 4090
$0.23 / h
- vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
- Per-second billing after the health check
- Top up in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins
vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
Salad (SaladCloud)
Salt Lake City, United States · since 2018
RTX 4090 · marketplace
$0.33 / h
- 48 consumer GPU classes, some from $0.015 per GPU-hour at Lowest
- RTX 5090 at $0.25 per GPU-hour at Lowest priority
- Up to 500 replicas per container group, nodes claimed in 190+ countries
Salad (SaladCloud)
Distributed
United States28 points compared27 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Cheap consumer cards at scale on Salad. Data-center GPUs and persistent disks at GPUBank.
Salad suits stateless, retry-tolerant inference and batch jobs that fit in 32 GB of VRAM and scale out across many replicas. Every node sits on a residential or small-business connection, the docs put node reliability at 90 to 95 %, and local state is lost on reallocation. GPUBank is cheaper on demand for the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090, while Salad's Lowest tier undercuts GPUBank's interruptible RTX 5090 rate. For H100, H200, B200, A100 or more than one GPU per instance, Salad's self-serve product has no offer.
Salad (SaladCloud)GPUBank 01The real cost
The same GPUs, side by side, per hour.
Every GPU model both of us rent, at each provider's own published price for one card, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
| GPU | Salad (SaladCloud) per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Salad (SaladCloud) | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 RTX 509032 GB · their marketplace price |
$0.50 | $0.48 | −4 % | $50.00 | $48.00 |
 RTX 409024 GB · their marketplace price |
$0.33 | $0.23 | −30 % | $33.00 | $23.00 |
Salad prices are for consumer GPUs on third-party home and small-business nodes, shown at High priority, the least interruptible tier. Nodes can still disconnect, and local state is lost.
Where Salad (SaladCloud) publishes no on-demand price for a model, its lowest published marketplace price is used, as labelled on the row.
Image generation, 200 h on an RTX 4090
Salad (SaladCloud)
$66.00
GPUBank
$46.00
Saves $20.00 at GPUBank (−30 %)
Image generation, 200 h on an RTX 5090
Salad (SaladCloud)
$100.00
GPUBank
$96.00
Saves $4.00 at GPUBank (−4 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Salad (SaladCloud) lists.
Salad (SaladCloud) lists 48 GPU models. The 19 below are the ones recorded in our check, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 3 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- Workstation1
RTX PRO 600096 GB · reservedNo price- Consumer18
- RTX 509032 GB · marketplace$0.50
- RTX 5090 Laptop24 GB · marketplace$0.24
- RTX 508016 GB · marketplace$0.26
- RTX 5070 Ti16 GB · marketplace$0.23
- RTX 507012 GB · marketplace$0.17
- Consumer continued18
- RTX 5060 Ti16 GB · marketplace$0.15
- RTX 50608 GB · marketplace$0.11
- RTX 409024 GB · marketplace$0.33
- RTX 408016 GB · marketplace$0.23
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER16 GB · marketplace$0.21
- RTX 4070 Ti12 GB · marketplace$0.20
- RTX 407012 GB · marketplace$0.15
- Consumer continued18
- RTX 4060 Ti16 GB · marketplace$0.14
RTX 3090 Ti24 GB · marketplace$0.19- RTX 309024 GB · marketplace$0.17
RTX 3080 Ti12 GB · marketplace$0.16- RTX 308010 GB · marketplace$0.14
- RTX 30608 GB · spot$0.047
03What the price includes
What appears on the bill besides the GPU.
The same RTX 4090 session of 2 h 14 m 03 s, line by line, as each provider describes its billing.
Salad (SaladCloud)
2 h 14 m 03 s on RTX 4090
- GPU · $0.33 / h
- $0.74
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- No persistent volumes; free S4 temp files
- Egress
- Included, not metered
- Public IPv4
- No public IP; Container Gateway URL
- Billing granularity
- Per second
- Minimum charge
- None
GPUBank
2 h 14 m 03 s on RTX 4090
- GPU · $0.23 / h
- $0.51
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local NVMe included; persistent disk $0.03 per GB-month
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Billing granularity
- Per second, from the health check
- Minimum charge
- None
While stopped
What keeps running on the bill.
Salad (SaladCloud)
Nothing billed; no state kept.
There is no persistent storage to bill. GPUBank keeps the disk at $0.03 per GB-month.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
Where Salad (SaladCloud) runs GPUs is not published.
Countries where Salad (SaladCloud) says its GPUs run, from its own region list or documentation, against GPUBank's four regions. A pin marks a country, not the exact site.
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Salad (SaladCloud)0
No country list on its public pages.
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt- Ashburn
Singapore
Salad (SaladCloud) · 0 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Salad (SaladCloud)
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
Invoice, enterprise onlyCrypto: USDC, USDT, RENDER on Solana
Minimum top-up $5
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Name
- 3Company name
- 4Business address
- 5Billing information
Billing modelPrepaid credits
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
No cardsA prepaid USD balance, topped up in crypto. Every GPU-second is drawn from it.
Minimum top-up $25
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Top up in crypto
- 3Launch a GPU
Billing modelPrepaid balance
06Trust and support
Certificates, uptime and who answers.
| Salad (SaladCloud) | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type I | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Not published | Not published |
| HIPAA | Not published | No |
| GDPR DPA | Not published | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | None for Community Cloud | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | cloud-status.salad.com | Public status page |
| Support | Tickets, email, Discord; named engineer | Tickets from a $25 balance |
07Their site, our site
What you see before you pay.
Both sites as a visitor sees them, without an account: the Salad (SaladCloud) pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The pricing page shows all four priority tiers per GPU-hour for 17 GPU classes without an account, plus a monthly column at 730 hours.
- 2A live availability table expands to all 48 GPU classes, but 31 of them are priced only as from 0.015 USD at Lowest, with exact rates in the portal.
- 3Salad Dedicated RTX PRO 6000 capacity and volume pricing above 100 GPUs sit behind Talk to sales.
- 1Live stock per region and every price, without an account.
- 2Per-hour and per-second prices, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic in them.
- 3A machine-readable price feed at /prices.json.
08The spec sheet
28 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadSalad (SaladCloud) aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Salad (SaladCloud) |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourThe top self-serve card is the RTX 5090, at $0.50 per GPU-hour on High priority. | $1.85, all-in | Not offered; max 32 GB VRAM |
| Cheapest GPU-hourOther classes start at $0.015 per GPU-hour on the interruptible Lowest tier. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.11, RTX 5060 at High priorityAhead |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 48 consumer classesAhead |
| What the GPU price includesNo persistent disk and no public IPv4 are part of the price. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, bandwidth; ephemeral disk |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularityAllocation, image download and cold start are not billed. | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | None |
| Stopped instanceThere is no persistent storage to bill. GPUBank keeps the disk at $0.03 per GB-month. | Disk only | Nothing billed; no state kept |
| Persistent storageS4 accepts files up to 100 MB and deletes them after 30 days. | $0.03 per GB-month | No persistent volumes; free S4 temp files |
| Egress traffic | Included | Included, not metered |
| Public IPv4Inbound connections are blocked by default; the gateway needs the container to listen on IPv6. | Included | No public IP; Container Gateway URL |
| Billing modelPaid credits expire 12 months after purchase. | Prepaid balance | Prepaid credits |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsGPUBank takes Bitcoin, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | USDC, USDT, RENDER on Solana |
| Card payments | No | Cards via StripeAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | $5Ahead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, SDKs in 4 languages; no CLI |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed KubernetesAn existing cluster can schedule pods onto SaladCloud. | No | Virtual Kubelet provider, no managed K8sAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | Recipes, count not published |
| Interruptible or spotEven High priority is reallocated when the host node disconnects. | Yes, 40 % off | Yes, three preemptible tiers |
| GPUs per instanceMulti-GPU RTX PRO 6000 servers are sold by quote on Salad Dedicated. | Up to 8 | 1 GPU per instance; 500 replicas |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Not published |
| Network and regions | ||
| RegionsNo country list is published. Workloads can be limited to chosen countries. | 4 | No named regions; nodes in 190+ countriesAhead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | 190+ claimed, no listAhead |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | No named region; country filter |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | None for Community Cloud |
| Compliance reports | None published | SOC 2 Type IAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | cloud-status.salad.com |
| SupportProduction customers get a named Salad engineer and a shared channel. | Tickets from a $25 balance | Tickets, email, Discord; named engineerAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Salad (SaladCloud) does better
- 48 consumer GPU classes, some from $0.015 per GPU-hour at Lowest
- RTX 5090 at $0.25 per GPU-hour at Lowest priority
- Up to 500 replicas per container group, nodes claimed in 190+ countries
- SOC 2 Type I, audited by Prescient Assurance
- Pay by card or in USDC, USDT or RENDER, from $5
Choose GPUBank if
- H100, H200, B200, A100, L40S and MI300X on demand
- Up to 8 GPUs per instance, where Salad allows 1
- RTX 4090 at $0.23 on demand, against $0.33 at High priority
- Persistent disks that survive a stop and move between regions
- Four named regions, a public IPv4, sign-up with email and password
Moving from Salad (SaladCloud) takes an afternoon.
Salad workloads are standard OCI containers, so they redeploy elsewhere unchanged. There are no persistent volumes to export, since data already lives in your own external storage.
- 1Download any S4 files you still need through the Salad API before their 30-day expiry.
- 2Launch the matching GPU on GPUBank, attach a persistent disk and pull the same image from your registry.
- 3Point your queue or gateway at the new instance, then delete the Salad container group.
# 1. a GPU and a disk on GPUBank gpubank launch --gpu rtx-4090 --region eu-paris --disk data # 2. copy your data from the old machine rsync -azP old-host:/workspace/ root@<new-ip>:/workspace/ # 3. run the same image or template ssh root@<new-ip> 'cd /workspace && ./start.sh'
A few things you might be wondering.
Not on demand. Salad charges $0.33 per GPU-hour for an RTX 4090 at High priority and $0.16 at Lowest, where it can be preempted. GPUBank charges $0.23 on demand, with a persistent disk option, IPv4 and traffic included, and 40 % less on interruptible instances.
Not on its self-serve Community Cloud, which tops out at 32 GB of VRAM and one GPU per instance. Salad Dedicated sells RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell servers by quote. GPUBank rents B200, H200, H100, A100, L40S and MI300X on demand, up to 8 GPUs per instance.
Yes. Salad takes USDC, USDT and RENDER on Solana through a Phantom or Solflare wallet, for purchases of $5 to $10,000, as well as cards. GPUBank takes Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins, and no cards.
Salad nodes are consumer PCs on residential and small-business connections. Its docs put individual node reliability at 90 to 95 % and advise several replicas with retry logic. Salad publishes no SLA for Community Cloud; GPUBank targets 99.9 % monthly per region in its terms.
No. Container state is ephemeral and lost on reallocation, and there is no persistent volume product. S4 storage is free but limited to 100 MB files kept 30 days. GPUBank persistent disks survive a stop and cost $0.03 per GB-month.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Salad (SaladCloud) and for GPUBank, so the two columns compare like for like. Tax is added at checkout according to where the buyer is based.
Sources
Every figure about Salad (SaladCloud) was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01salad.com/pricing/GPU prices by priority tier, CPU pricing, billing FAQ, free trial, 48 GPU classes and live availability
- 02salad.com/Product lines, scale claims, starting price
- 03docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/billing-pricing/billingPer-second billing, cold start not billed, RTX 3060 8 GB Low example price
- 04docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/billing-pricing/priority-pricingPriority tier semantics
- 05docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/infrastructure-platform/availabilityMinimum run before reallocation by tier
- 06docs.salad.com/general/explanation/billingPrepaid model, recharge limits, cards, crypto on Solana, volume discounts, credit expiry
- 07docs.salad.com/general/tutorials/account-setupBilling method required before deployment
- 08docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/core-concepts/faqs32 GB max VRAM, interruption, node reliability, bandwidth not metered, SSH, SOC 2 Type 1
- 09docs.salad.com/container-engine/reference/amd-gpusAMD class support, WSL2 runtime
- 10docs.salad.com/container-engine/reference/quotas500 replicas per container group
- 11docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/container-groups/ssh-and-terminalSSH and web terminal
- 12docs.salad.com/container-engine/explanation/platform-integrations/kubernetes-integrationKubernetes integration
- 13docs.salad.com/storage/explanation/overviewStorage limits
- 14docs.salad.com/reference/api-usageREST API, rate limit 240 requests/min
- 15salad.com/developers/SDK languages
- 16github.com/SaladTechnologiesOfficial Terraform provider, Virtual Kubelet
- 17salad.com/salad-container-engine/Platform capabilities, Hyper-V isolation, gateway, job queues
- 18salad.com/salad-container-engine-community/Hardware range, fit
What we could not verify (9)
- 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.
In short
GPUBank vs Salad (SaladCloud), in facts.
The essentials of this comparison in one table, for quick readers and AI assistants. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
Read as Markdown- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Salad (SaladCloud): Not offered; max 32 GB VRAM
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Salad (SaladCloud): $0.11, RTX 5060 at High priority
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Salad (SaladCloud): Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Salad (SaladCloud): Nothing billed; no state kept
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Salad (SaladCloud): No persistent volumes; free S4 temp files
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Salad (SaladCloud): Included, not metered
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Salad (SaladCloud): USDC, USDT, RENDER on Solana
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Salad (SaladCloud): Cards via Stripe
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Salad (SaladCloud): $5
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Salad (SaladCloud): 48 consumer classes
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Salad (SaladCloud): No named regions; nodes in 190+ countries
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Salad (SaladCloud): No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Salad (SaladCloud): None for Community Cloud
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Salad (SaladCloud): SOC 2 Type I
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Salad (SaladCloud): Tickets, email, Discord; named engineer
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Salad (SaladCloud): Salt Lake City, United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Salad (SaladCloud) was read on its own website, documentation or public API on 29 September 2026, with the address of each page listed above. A value we could not read on a primary source is marked "Not published" rather than estimated. GPUBank figures come from this site and its terms. Prices change: check both providers before you buy. Salad (SaladCloud), its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Salad (SaladCloud).
