What is the difference between FireVM and Salad Cloud?

FireVM 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: FireVM 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 FireVM 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 FireVM and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

FireVM vs Salad Cloud

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

FireVM

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

FireVM GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

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

Showing 15 of 45 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 4:49:09 PM

GPU Model ↑	FireVM Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A30 24GB VRAM • FireVM	$0.62/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
A30 24GB VRAM • FireVM $0.62/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
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 NVL 94GB VRAM • FireVM	$2.74/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • FireVM $2.74/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • FireVM	$3.15/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • FireVM $3.15/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
L4 24GB VRAM • FireVM	$0.58/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
L4 24GB VRAM • FireVM $0.58/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • FireVM	$1.03/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • FireVM $1.03/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
MI210 64GB VRAM • FireVM	$1.37/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
MI210 64GB VRAM • FireVM $1.37/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
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

A30 24GB VRAM • FireVM	$0.62/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
A30 24GB VRAM • FireVM $0.62/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
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 NVL 94GB VRAM • FireVM	$2.74/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • FireVM $2.74/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • FireVM	$3.15/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • FireVM $3.15/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
L4 24GB VRAM • FireVM	$0.58/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
L4 24GB VRAM • FireVM $0.58/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • FireVM	$1.03/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • FireVM $1.03/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
MI210 64GB VRAM • FireVM	$1.37/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	FireVM GPU pricing feed
MI210 64GB VRAM • FireVM $1.37/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available FireVM GPU pricing feed
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

Features Comparison

FireVM

Single-Tenant Bare Metal
Each GPU server is one physical machine rented to one customer, with no virtualization layer, no vGPU and full root access.
One to Four GPUs per Server
Servers with one to four cards ship within five business days of payment; eight-GPU servers are built to order.
Month-to-Month Billing
One flat monthly invoice per server with no long-term contract and no minimum term beyond the month.
Published Pricing Feed
The GPU server list is published as a public JSON feed alongside the pricing page.
Radar Telemetry Monitoring
FireVM's own monitoring platform checks each managed server every minute and alerts both the customer and the support team.

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

FireVM

Advantages

Whole physical servers with no sharing or virtualization
No commitment beyond one month
Per-server specifications, location and delivery time published for every listing
Support by ticket, live chat and WhatsApp around the clock

Considerations

No hourly billing; the shortest rental is one month
Servers are built after payment, with delivery within five business days rather than instant provisioning
Eight-GPU servers require a deposit and can take up to three months to deliver

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

FireVM

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

FireVM

Monthly Rental

A flat monthly price per server, with an hourly equivalent shown for reference only.

Pre-Order

Eight-GPU servers are reserved with a deposit that counts toward the first month and is refunded if the server does not arrive within three months.

Add-Ons

Optional hardware RAID 1 is billed monthly on top of the listed server price.

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

FireVM

Get Started

1
Pick a Server
Choose a GPU model, card count and location from the pricing table and click Order now.
2
Pay and Verify
Pay the first month; larger orders go through a one-time online identity check that takes a few minutes.
3
Server Build
FireVM builds and configures the server within five business days.
4
Receive Access
Server access is handed over and the server renews monthly until cancelled.

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

FireVM

Global Regions

GPU servers in Canada, Europe and the UK; eight-GPU servers in the USA. Facilities include Equinix, SummitHQ and Zayo data centers.

Support

24x7 support tickets and live web chat, WhatsApp for pre-sales and for customers' technical support, and email.

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.