What is the difference between Deep Infra and Salad Cloud?

Deep Infra 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: Deep Infra 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 Deep Infra 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 42 different GPU models across both Deep Infra and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Deep Infra vs Salad Cloud

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Deep Infra GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 42Both available: 0Deep Infra: 5Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 42 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:27:29 PM

GPU Model ↑	Deep Infra Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$1.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra $1.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
B200 180GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$4.89/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
B200 180GB VRAM • Deep Infra $4.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$2.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra $2.90/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
H200 141GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$3.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
H200 141GB VRAM • Deep Infra $3.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$5.89/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Deep Infra $5.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$1.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra $1.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
B200 180GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$4.89/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
B200 180GB VRAM • Deep Infra $4.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$2.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Deep Infra $2.90/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
H200 141GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$3.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
H200 141GB VRAM • Deep Infra $3.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Deep Infra	$5.89/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Deep Infra
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Deep Infra $5.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Deep Infra
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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★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: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 67Both available: 0Deep Infra: 67Salad Cloud: 0

Showing 15 of 67 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:27:29 PM

Model ↑	Deep Infra	Salad Cloud	Input Diff ↕
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	$10.00 in $50.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	$1.00 in $5.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic	$4.00 in $20.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic	$2.00 in $10.00 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek	$0.500 in $2.15 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	$0.320 in $0.890 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek	$0.250 in $0.950 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.260 in $0.380 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	$0.060 in $0.180 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision DeepSeek	$0.440 in $1.32 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

Deep Infra

Drop-in OpenAI Replacement
OpenAI-compatible API for 100+ models including DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama 4, Claude, and Gemini families with autoscaling
Dedicated GPU Rentals
B200 instances with SSH access spin up in about 10 seconds and bill hourly
Custom LLM Deployments
Deploy your own Hugging Face models onto dedicated A100, H100, H200, B200, or B300 GPUs
Transparent GPU Pricing
Published per-GPU hourly rates for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300 with competitive pricing
Owned Inference Infrastructure
Runs on its own inference-optimized hardware in US-based data centers rather than rented capacity
Comprehensive AI APIs
Support for text generation, vision and OCR, embeddings and reranking, image, video and music generation, and speech recognition and synthesis

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

Deep Infra

Advantages

Simple OpenAI-compatible API alongside controllable GPU rentals
Competitive hourly rates for NVIDIA GPUs including B200 and B300
Fast provisioning with SSH access for dedicated instances (ready in ~10 seconds)
Supports custom deployments in addition to hosted public models

Considerations

Infrastructure is US-based only, with no published international regions
Primarily focused on inference and GPU rentals rather than broader cloud services
Newer player compared to established cloud providers

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

Deep Infra

Serverless Inference

Hosted model APIs with autoscaling on Deep Infra's own inference infrastructure.

Drop-in OpenAI replacement - swap base URL, keep existing code
100+ models including the DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.7, Llama 4, Claude 5, Gemini 3.5, Gemma 4, GLM-5, Kimi K2.7, and Nemotron 3 families

Dedicated GPU Instances

On-demand GPU nodes with SSH access for custom workloads.

GPU Clusters

Multi-node B200 and B300 clusters with SSH access for training and full-control workloads.

Rent a B200 or B300 cluster and run arbitrary workloads
On-demand DGX B300 configurations billed per instance-hour

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

Deep Infra

Serverless pay-per-token

OpenAI-compatible inference APIs billed per input and output token, with no idle GPU time or minimums

Dedicated GPU hourly rates

Published transparent hourly pricing for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300 GPUs with pay-as-you-go billing

Per-execution-time billing

Non-LLM models are billed for inference execution time rather than per token

Cached input pricing

Prompt-cached input tokens are billed at a lower rate than uncached input tokens

No long-term commitments

Flexible hourly billing for dedicated instances with no prepayments, contracts, or minimums required

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

Deep Infra

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up (GitHub-supported) and open the Deep Infra dashboard
2
Enable billing
Add a payment method to unlock GPU rentals and API usage
3
Pick a GPU option
Choose serverless APIs or dedicated A100, H100, H200, B200, or B300 instances
4
Launch and connect
Start instances with SSH access or call the OpenAI-compatible API endpoints
5
Monitor usage
Track spend and instance status from the dashboard and shut down when idle

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

Deep Infra

Global Regions

Runs on self-operated, inference-optimized infrastructure in US-based data centers; no international region list is published.

Support

Documentation site, dashboard guidance, Discord community, feedback email (feedback@deepinfra.com), and contact-sales options.

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.