What is the difference between EcoHash and Salad Cloud?

EcoHash 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: EcoHash 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 EcoHash 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 38 different GPU models across both EcoHash and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

EcoHash vs Salad Cloud

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

EcoHash

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

EcoHash GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 38Both available: 0EcoHash: 1Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 38 GPUs

Last updated: 10/6/2026, 11:19:43 AM

GPU Model ↑	EcoHash Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	Not Available	$0.03/hr★ Best	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Not Available Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Salad API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 13Both available: 0EcoHash: 13Salad Cloud: 0

Showing 13 of 13 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/6/2026, 11:19:43 AM

Model ↑	EcoHash	Salad Cloud	Input Diff ↕
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$0.910 in $2.72 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.2 Zhipu	$1.00 in $3.00 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.3 Z AI	$1.25 in $4.30 out	Not available	—
GPT-OSS-20B OpenAI	$0.050 in $0.200 out	Not available	—
Kimi K3 Moonshot	$2.00 in $12.00 out	Not available	—
Llama 3.1 8B Meta	$0.100 in $0.100 out	Not available	—
MiniMax-M3 MiniMax	$0.200 in $0.900 out	Not available	—
Qwen 3 Coder 30B Alibaba	$0.100 in $0.300 out	Not available	—
Qwen 3.8 Flash Alibaba	$0.090 in $0.370 out	Not available	—
Qwen 3.8 Max Alibaba	$1.90 in $5.70 out	Not available	—
Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Alibaba	$0.400 in $0.800 out	Not available	—
Qwen3 VL 8B Alibaba	$0.150 in $0.500 out	Not available	—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Alibaba	$0.400 in $0.400 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

EcoHash

RTX PRO 6000 GPU Instances
Containerized Linux instances with 1, 2, 4 or 8 RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, with root access, SSH, a browser terminal and Jupyter.
GPU Clusters
Clusters of 2–8 identical replicas launched as one unit.
Per-Second Billing
GPU instances are billed per second of running time at one per-GPU rate across instance, dedicated-inference and cluster workloads.
OpenAI-Compatible Inference API
Pay-per-token access to platform models for chat, embeddings, reranking, image generation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning and video generation at api.ecohash.com.
Dedicated Inference
Deploy a Hugging Face or registered model as a managed endpoint called through the same API and key.
Managed Fine-Tuning
LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning jobs on 1, 2 or 4 GPUs, billed per minute, with a dataset registry that validates JSONL before any GPU is booked.

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

EcoHash

Advantages

Per-second billing with a single per-GPU rate across instance sizes
96 GB of VRAM per GPU on Blackwell-generation RTX PRO 6000 cards
One OpenAI-compatible API for platform models and dedicated endpoints
Covers GPU rental, fine-tuning and inference on one account

Considerations

Single GPU model (RTX PRO 6000); no H100, H200 or B200 capacity
GPU instances available in the United States only
Fine-tuning limited to LoRA/QLoRA jobs on up to 4 GPUs

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

EcoHash

RTX PRO 6000 GPU Instances

Containerized Linux GPU instances with SSH, web-terminal and Jupyter access, billed per second at the same per-GPU rate for every size.

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

EcoHash

GPU instances

Per GPU-hour, billed per second of running time

Inference API

Per token for language models and per second for some media models, with no minimum commitment

Dedicated Inference

Per GPU-hour for the GPUs behind the endpoint

Fine-tuning

Per minute of GPU time

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

EcoHash

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up at console.ecohash.com.
2
Create an API key
Generate a key in the console for the inference API and dedicated endpoints.
3
Call a platform model
Point an OpenAI SDK client at https://api.ecohash.com/v1 and choose a model from the catalog.
4
Launch a GPU instance
Pick a compute template and a 1, 2, 4 or 8 GPU size, then connect over SSH, the browser terminal or Jupyter.

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

EcoHash

Global Regions

GPU instances: United States. Inference API: multi-region routing.

Support

Documentation at docs.ecohash.com and a contact form on ecohash.com; an SLA is published on the website.

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.