What is the difference between Fluence Cloud and Salad Cloud?

Fluence Cloud 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: Fluence Cloud 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 Fluence Cloud 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 60 different GPU models across both Fluence Cloud and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Fluence Cloud vs Salad Cloud

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

Fluence Cloud

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Salad Cloud

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Fluence Cloud GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.66/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 60Both available: 4Fluence Cloud: 27Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 60 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:24:58 PM

GPU Model ↑	Fluence Cloud Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.70/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A10 24GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.70/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$4.21/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $4.21/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.57/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.57/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.78/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.78/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.85/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.85/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A40 48GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.46/hr★ Best 4x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A40 48GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.46/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$12.23/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $12.23/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans 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: 10/30/2026 ★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 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.91/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.91/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.90/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
H200 141GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$5.28/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H200 141GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $5.28/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API

A10 24GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.70/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A10 24GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.70/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$4.21/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $4.21/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.57/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.57/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.78/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.78/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$1.85/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $1.85/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
A40 48GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.46/hr★ Best 4x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
A40 48GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.46/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$12.23/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $12.23/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans 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: 10/30/2026 ★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 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.91/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.91/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$2.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $2.90/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API
H200 141GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud	$5.28/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Fluence GPU plans API
H200 141GB VRAM • Fluence Cloud $5.28/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Fluence GPU plans API

Features Comparison

Fluence Cloud

Multi-provider support
Deploy GPU and CPU resources from various cloud providers in one platform.
No egress fees
Users can transfer data without incurring additional costs.
Open standards
Easy migration and integration across various environments.
Compliance
Satisfies GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC2 compliance standards.
Transparent pricing
Users receive clear and predictable pricing without hidden costs.

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

Fluence Cloud

Advantages

Flexible deployment of GPU and CPU resources
Integration with multiple cloud providers
No vendor lock-in arrangements
Compliant with major security standards

Considerations

Limited information on specific service-level agreements
Potential lack of direct customer support options
No explicit details on hardware configurations

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

Fluence Cloud

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

Fluence Cloud

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

Fluence Cloud

Get Started

1
Sign Up
Create an account on the Fluence Cloud platform.
2
Choose your resources
Select the appropriate GPU or CPU instance according to your needs.
3
Configure your environment
Set up your workloads and storage options.
4
Deploy your application
Launch your application within the platform.
5
Monitor usage
Utilize the dashboard to track performance and costs.

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

Fluence Cloud

Global Regions

US, EU, Asia

Support

Email support and documentation available.

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.