What is the difference between Baseten and Salad Cloud?

Baseten and Salad Cloud are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Baseten or Salad Cloud?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Baseten and Salad Cloud?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 45 different GPU models across both Baseten and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Baseten vs Salad Cloud

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between Baseten and Salad Cloud. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

Baseten

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Baseten GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 45Both available: 0Baseten: 8Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 45 GPUs

Last updated: 10/22/2026, 7:59:56 PM

GPU Model ↑	Baseten Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Baseten	$1.21/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
A10 24GB VRAM • Baseten $1.21/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten	$4.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten $4.00/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
B200 180GB VRAM • Baseten	$9.98/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
B200 180GB VRAM • Baseten $9.98/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.01/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.01/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten	$6.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten $6.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
H200 141GB VRAM • Baseten	$7.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
H200 141GB VRAM • Baseten $7.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
L4 24GB VRAM • Baseten	$0.85/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
L4 24GB VRAM • Baseten $0.85/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.05/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

A10 24GB VRAM • Baseten	$1.21/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
A10 24GB VRAM • Baseten $1.21/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten	$4.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten $4.00/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
B200 180GB VRAM • Baseten	$9.98/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
B200 180GB VRAM • Baseten $9.98/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.01/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.01/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten	$6.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Baseten $6.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
H200 141GB VRAM • Baseten	$7.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
H200 141GB VRAM • Baseten $7.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
L4 24GB VRAM • Baseten	$0.85/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Baseten
L4 24GB VRAM • Baseten $0.85/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Baseten
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.02/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.05/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 10Both available: 0Baseten: 10Salad Cloud: 0

Showing 10 of 10 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/22/2026, 7:59:56 PM

Model ↑	Baseten	Salad Cloud	Input Diff ↕
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	$0.130 in $0.260 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$1.32 in $3.96 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	$0.300 in $1.20 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.2 Z.ai	$1.40 in $4.40 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.3 Z.ai	$1.40 in $4.40 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai	$0.150 in $0.500 out	Not available	—
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	$0.100 in $0.500 out	Not available	—
Kimi K3 Moonshot AI	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Muse Spark Open Meta	$1.25 in $4.25 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA	$0.200 in $0.500 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

Baseten

Model APIs
OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints for hosted open models, billed per input, cached input, and output token
Dedicated deployments
Custom, fine-tuned, or open-source models on dedicated GPUs from T4 to B200 and RTX PRO 6000, in 1 to 8-GPU instances, with autoscaling
Training
Managed training jobs on the same GPU instance types, with checkpoints deployable to inference
Truss
Open-source packaging standard for serving models built in any framework
Self-hosted and hybrid
Enterprise deployments in the customer's VPC or split across Baseten's cloud and the customer's

Salad Cloud

Community Cloud
On-demand pool of idle consumer GPUs with nodes in 190+ countries, deployed onto through Salad Container Engine.
Salad Container Engine
Managed orchestration that schedules Docker containers onto nodes it does not control, isolates them behind a hypervisor, streams logs, and reallocates work when a node disappears.
Priority Tiers
High, Medium, Low, and Lowest tiers price the same GPU class differently so a workload can trade preemption risk for cost; High is never preempted by other workloads.
Salad Dedicated
Reserved bare metal and virtual machines on contract, starting with RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, quoted per allocation and term.
Private Cloud
Salad's orchestration stack licensed per deployment on hardware you already own, pooling idle workstation and server GPUs into a private OpenAI-compatible token service.
Managed APIs and Tooling
AI Gateway (an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight models, in closed beta), Transcription API, Recipes deployment templates, S4 temporary storage, Gateway Service residential IPs, and a Virtual Kubelet for Kubernetes.

Pros & Cons

Baseten

Advantages

Per-minute billing on dedicated GPUs
Per-token Model APIs and dedicated deployments from one account
SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant
Multi-GPU instance sizes published with vCPU and memory

Considerations

Dedicated GPU rates are higher than raw GPU rental because they include the serving platform
Model API catalog is a curated set of models
Volume discounts and custom regions require a sales conversation

Salad Cloud

Advantages

Aggregating idle consumer hardware gives some of the lowest published per-GPU-hour rates available
Per-second billing with no contracts or minimums; allocation, image download, and cold start are not billed
vCPU and RAM are included with every GPU class at no additional charge
Four priority tiers make interruptibility an explicit, priced choice per container group

Considerations

On-demand catalog is consumer RTX GPUs only — data center accelerators are not offered outside the contracted Dedicated product
Published GPU classes top out at 32 GB of VRAM, limiting the size of a model that fits on a single GPU
Nodes are individually owned machines that can disconnect at any time, so workloads must be stateless or retryable

Compute Services

Baseten

Salad Cloud

Salad Container Engine on Community Cloud

On-demand container orchestration across the distributed pool of idle consumer GPUs, with more than 40 GPU classes selectable by priority tier.

Salad Dedicated

Reserved bare metal and virtual machines on contract, separate from the on-demand community pool.

CPU-only container groups

Container groups with no GPU attached, billed per vCPU-hour and per GB of RAM per hour, running at the Lowest priority tier.

Pricing Options

Baseten

Model APIs

Per 1M input, cached input, and output tokens

Dedicated deployments

Per minute of GPU instance time, scaled to zero when idle

Pro and Enterprise

Volume discounts, priority GPU access, and self-hosted options

Salad Cloud

Per-second on-demand billing

Published per-GPU-hour rates billed by the second for the time each replica spends running; allocation, image download, and cold start are not charged, and vCPU and RAM are included.

Priority tiers

High, Medium, Low, and Lowest tiers price each GPU class differently - lower tiers cost less and are more interruptible, with Lowest intended for retryable batch work.

CPU-only container groups

Billed per vCPU-hour plus per GB of RAM per hour for container groups that need no GPU.

Volume discounts

Large deployments, long-running jobs, and committed spend are priced below list by sales.

Salad Dedicated contracts

Reserved bare metal and virtual machines quoted separately per allocation and term.

Private Cloud licensing

Licensed per deployment to run the orchestration stack on hardware you already own.

Getting Started

Baseten

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up; new accounts include credits
2
Call a Model API
Use an OpenAI-compatible client against a hosted model
3
Deploy a model
Package a model with Truss or pick one from the model library and choose a GPU instance type

Salad Cloud

Get Started

1
Create a SaladCloud account
Sign up at portal.salad.com to reach the dashboard, API keys, and deployment tools.
2
Pick a GPU class and priority tier
Compare published per-GPU-hour rates and live availability on the pricing page, then choose the tier that matches how interruptible the workload is.
3
Deploy a container group
Supply a Docker image, CPU/memory/GPU resources, and a replica count through the portal or the public API; Recipes provide ready-made templates for popular open models.
4
Monitor and scale
Track replicas in the portal and adjust GPU class, priority, or replica count; the container engine reallocates work as nodes join and leave the network.
5
Talk to sales for reserved or volume capacity
Large deployments, committed spend, and Salad Dedicated allocations are quoted directly rather than bought self-service.

Support & Global Availability

Baseten

Support

Email and in-app chat on Basic; dedicated Slack and Zoom support on Pro and Enterprise

Salad Cloud

Global Regions

Nodes in 190+ countries across the distributed network; capacity is chosen by GPU class and priority tier rather than by selectable region, and availability varies by class.

Support

Documentation at docs.salad.com, a developer hub and Recipes library, status page at cloud-status.salad.com, Trust Center, Discord and GitHub communities, and direct engineering and sales contact for volume and enterprise deployments.