What is the difference between Massed Compute and Salad Cloud?

Massed Compute 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: Massed Compute 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 Massed Compute 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 51 different GPU models across both Massed Compute and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Massed Compute vs Salad Cloud

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

Massed Compute

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Massed Compute GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.35/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 51Both available: 1Massed Compute: 15Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 51 GPUs

Last updated: 10/27/2026, 9:52:56 PM

GPU Model ↑	Massed Compute Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$1.35/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $1.35/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$1.38/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $1.38/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
A30 24GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.35/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A30 24GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.35/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
B200 180GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$5.43/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
B200 180GB VRAM • Massed Compute $5.43/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute 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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$2.92/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Massed Compute $2.92/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$2.73/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $2.73/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$3.62/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • Massed Compute $3.62/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$6.60/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Massed Compute $6.60/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
L40 40GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.77/hr★ Best 4x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
L40 40GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.77/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.97/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API

A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$1.35/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $1.35/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$1.38/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $1.38/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
A30 24GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.35/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
A30 24GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.35/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
B200 180GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$5.43/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
B200 180GB VRAM • Massed Compute $5.43/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute 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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★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: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$2.92/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Massed Compute $2.92/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$2.73/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Massed Compute $2.73/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$3.62/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
H200 NVL 141GB VRAM • Massed Compute $3.62/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$6.60/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Massed Compute $6.60/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
L40 40GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.77/hr★ Best 4x GPU	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
L40 40GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.77/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Massed Compute	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Massed Compute API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Massed Compute $0.97/hour Updated: 10/27/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Massed Compute API

Features Comparison

Massed Compute

NVIDIA Preferred Partner
Assurance of fully-supported, high-performance NVIDIA GPU solutions
SOC 2 Type II Compliant
Independent attestation of security, availability, and confidentiality controls
HIPAA & GDPR
HIPAA and GDPR compliance listed alongside SOC 2, including on single-tenant bare-metal servers
MCP Server
Provision and manage GPU VMs from an AI agent through Massed Compute's MCP integration
On-Demand & Bare-Metal Options
Hourly VMs or single-tenant servers—no long-term contracts
Inventory API
REST API to list, provision, manage, and retire GPU instances programmatically

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

Massed Compute

Advantages

Broad catalog of NVIDIA GPUs from A30 up to B200 and B300
Very competitive hourly pricing with no hidden bandwidth fees
Owned hardware—no ‘middle-man’ latency or support hand-offs
Direct access to engineers for GPU & driver questions

Considerations

Data-center footprint limited to the United States
No AMD GPU options at present
You must maintain a prepaid credit balance to launch VMs

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

Massed Compute

On-Demand GPU Instances

Self-service VMs billed hourly; configurable 1-, 2-, 4- or 8-GPU nodes

Bare-Metal GPU Servers

Single-tenant servers with full hardware control and optional NVLink interconnects

No virtualization overhead
Customisable CPU, RAM, storage & network fabric

GPU Clusters

Reserved multi-node clusters networked for distributed training

InfiniBand-connected clusters from 8 to 512+ nodes
Long-term reservation guarantees capacity

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

Massed Compute

On-Demand Instances

Hourly VMs with no long-term contracts and no bandwidth charges

Bare Metal & Clusters

Custom-quoted single-tenant servers and InfiniBand clusters, including commitment pricing

Inventory API

Wholesale pricing for platforms reselling the catalog via the REST API

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

Massed Compute

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up and confirm email to access the console
2
Add billing credits
Add a credit card or pay with crypto, then set a minimum balance and auto-recharge amount
3
Select a GPU template
Choose GPU type, quantity, and OS image from the catalog
4
Launch via VDI or SSH
Boot the VM, connect in one click, or use the API

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

Massed Compute

Global Regions

Tier III U.S. data centers (multiple sites in low-cost power markets)

Support

Documentation portal, Discord community, email ticketing, and direct engineer chat ('Ask AI Expert')

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.