What is the difference between Crusoe and Salad Cloud?

Crusoe 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: Crusoe 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 Crusoe 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 27 different GPU models across both Crusoe and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Crusoe vs Salad Cloud GPU Cloud Pricing 2026

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 27Both available: 0Crusoe: 7Salad Cloud: 20

Showing 15 of 27 GPUs

Last updated: 7/16/2026, 5:57:43 PM

GPU Model ↑	Crusoe Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 7/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.45/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.45/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.04/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.04/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3080 Ti 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.08/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 Ti 12GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.08/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.09/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.09/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3090 Ti 24GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.10/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3090 Ti 24GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.10/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 4060 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.05/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 4060 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 4060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.08/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 4060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.08/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 7/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.45/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.45/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.45/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Shadeform API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.04/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.04/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.06/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3080 Ti 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.08/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 Ti 12GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.08/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.09/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.09/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3090 Ti 24GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.10/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3090 Ti 24GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.10/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 4060 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.05/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 4060 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 4060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.08/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 4060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.08/hour Updated: 7/16/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

Features Comparison

Crusoe

Sustainable Computing
Powered by stranded and wasted energy sources to reduce carbon emissions
Fast Spin Up
Machines are deployed quickly when they are launched
Persistent Storage
Disk storage that can be used across multiple instances
SXM Support
Provides instances with NVIDIA SXM GPU interconnects
SLA Guarantee
Provider offers an SLA on uptime and performance
Managed Inference
Breakthrough speed LLM inference with up to 9.9x faster time-to-first-token

Salad Cloud

Community GPU Pool
Community-powered consumer GPUs for stateless and high-volume workloads with very competitive pricing.
Secure GPU Clusters
Data center-grade A100, L40S, and H100 NVL capacity with managed orchestration for compliant workloads.
Managed Container Engine
Deploy containers without managing nodes; scale replicas across thousands of GPUs via the Salad portal.
Transparent Pricing Calculator
Public pricing calculator shows hourly rates for all GPU types across both Community and Secure tiers.
Developer Hub & Docs
Portal access, Developer Hub, and product documentation at docs.salad.com.

Pros & Cons

Crusoe

Advantages

Great GPU availability for on-demand use
Affordable pricing for GPU instances
Environmentally sustainable approach using stranded energy
SLA guarantee on uptime and performance

Considerations

Regional focus rather than global presence
Contact sales required for newest GPU models (GB200, B200, MI355X)
Primarily focused on North American data centers

Salad Cloud

Advantages

Very competitive GPU pricing across both community and secure tiers
Mix of community GPUs and secure data center clusters with A100/L40S/H100 options
Managed container engine reduces infrastructure and orchestration overhead
Developer portal, calculator, and docs make costs and deployment steps clear

Considerations

Community GPU pool is best for stateless or fault-tolerant workloads where node variability is acceptable
Secure tier GPU lineup is limited to the published SKUs (H100 NVL, A100, L40S) and 8x cluster configurations

Compute Services

Crusoe

GPU Instances

High-performance GPU instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs

CPU Instances

General-purpose and storage-optimized CPU instances for data processing

Managed Inference

Fully managed LLM inference with pay-as-you-go and provisioned throughput options

Leading LLMs including DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.1, Llama 3.3, Gemma, and Nemotron
Pay-as-you-go pricing per million tokens

Salad Cloud

Salad Container Engine - Secure

Managed container orchestration on data center GPUs such as H100 NVL, A100, and L40S with competitive hourly pricing.

Salad Container Engine - Community

Community-powered GPU pool for flexible, stateless workloads with very competitive pricing.

Pricing Options

Crusoe

On-Demand Instances

Pay by the hour for maximum agility and unthrottled compute

Spot Instances

Use spare capacity at significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing

Reserved Instances

Lock in guaranteed resources at lowest rates with custom commitments

Pay-as-you-go Inference

Flexible pricing for LLM inference based on token usage

Provisioned Throughput

Guaranteed inference capacity with AI Model Units for consistent performance

Salad Cloud

Community GPU Pricing

Extremely cost-effective community tier with consumer GPUs for stateless and fault-tolerant workloads.

Secure Tier Pricing

Competitive hourly rates for data center-grade H100 NVL, A100, and L40S GPUs with managed orchestration.

On-demand, no contracts

Hourly billing via the Salad portal and calculator with no prepayments or long-term commitments required.

Transparent pricing calculator

Public pricing calculator available showing all GPU types and hourly rates across both tiers.

Getting Started

Crusoe

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for Crusoe Cloud services through their website
2
Select GPU instance
Choose from available GPU types including A100, L40S, H200, B200, GB200, and AMD options
3
Configure storage
Set up persistent storage options for your workloads
4
Launch instance
Deploy your instance with fast spin-up times

Salad Cloud

Get Started

1
Create a SaladCloud account
Sign up and log in at portal.salad.com to access the dashboard and calculator.
2
Choose a container engine tier
Pick Community for the lowest-cost consumer GPUs or Secure for data center-grade H100/A100/L40S clusters.
3
Select GPU type and replicas
Use the pricing calculator to pick a GPU SKU (e.g., L40S, A100, H100 NVL) and set the number of replicas.
4
Deploy your container
Provide your image, command, and environment settings, then launch via the portal or API.
5
Monitor and iterate
Track deployments and status in the portal; adjust replicas or GPU class as needed.

Support & Global Availability

Crusoe

Global Regions

Strategically located data centers in low-cost energy areas of the United States

Support

Documentation, SOC II certified infrastructure, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications

Salad Cloud

Global Regions

Distributed global community GPU network with secure data center clusters (locations not explicitly listed on public pages).

Support

Documentation and Developer Hub at docs.salad.com, portal dashboards with a status page, community Discord, and sales contact for secure clusters.