SaladCloud

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Promoted high on official /pricing floor ($0.015/GPU-hr). Depot interruptible ultra-cheap GPU pick; Vast/TensorDock remain marketplace peers. Prefer Nebius/RunPod/Modal when you need sticky sessions or predictable TTFT.

Pricing notes

As of 2026-10-24 (salad.com/pricing, fetched 2026-10-24): GPU classes 'from $0.015 per GPU-hour at Lowest priority'; 'Billing is per second while an instance is in the running state.' 'Allocation, image download, and container start are free.' GPU prices are 'Per GPU, per hour. vCPU and RAM included.' across four priority tiers (High, Medium, Low, Lowest), e.g. RTX 4090 24 GB '$0.330' High to '$0.160' Lowest; RTX 5090 32 GB '$0.500' High to '$0.250' Lowest. High: 'Never preempted by other workloads.' Medium and Low: 'May be preempted by higher-priority groups.' 'Lowest is the lowest cost and the most interruptible.' CPU-only: 'Billed at $0.005 per vCPU-hour and $0.001 per GB of RAM per hour.' (1 vCPU / 1 GB '$0.006' per hr). Volume discounts 'for deployments above 100 GPUs, long-running jobs, and committed contracts' (sales); Salad Dedicated RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 'quoted per allocation and term'. Free trial: 'No.'

Sourced pricing

Contract status unit_mismatch · unit_mismatch. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=salad

• RTX 5090 32GB (High priority) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.5 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
• RTX 5090 32GB (Lowest priority, batch) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.25 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
• RTX 4090 24GB (High priority) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.33 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
• RTX 4090 24GB (Lowest priority, batch) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.16 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
• RTX 3090 24GB (High priority) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.17 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
• RTX 3090 24GB (Lowest priority, batch) · usd_per_gpu_hour · $0.09 · unit_mismatch · normalized null