What is the difference between Nebius and Salad Cloud?

Nebius 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: Nebius 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 Nebius 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 43 different GPU models across both Nebius and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Nebius vs Salad Cloud

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

Nebius

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Salad Cloud

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Nebius GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 43Both available: 0Nebius: 6Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 43 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 3:02:44 PM

GPU Model ↑	Nebius Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
B200 180GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
B200 180GB VRAM • Nebius $0.99/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
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 • Nebius	$0.79/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Nebius $0.79/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
H200 141GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.79/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
H200 141GB VRAM • Nebius $0.79/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Nebius $0.99/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
L40S 48GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.74/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
L40S 48GB VRAM • Nebius $0.74/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
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

B200 180GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
B200 180GB VRAM • Nebius $0.99/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
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 • Nebius	$0.79/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Nebius $0.79/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
H200 141GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.79/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
H200 141GB VRAM • Nebius $0.79/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Nebius $0.99/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
L40S 48GB VRAM • Nebius	$0.74/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Nebius
L40S 48GB VRAM • Nebius $0.74/hour Updated: 10/29/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Nebius
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

Features Comparison

Nebius

Transparent GPU pricing
Published on-demand rates for extensive NVIDIA GPU lineup including latest Blackwell models
Commitment discounts
Long-term commitments can cut on-demand rates by up to 35%
HGX clusters
Multi-GPU HGX B300/B200/H200/H100 nodes with per-GPU table pricing
Preemptible instances
Cost-effective preemptible GPU pricing for fault-tolerant workloads
Flexible payment options
Support for both credit card and bank transfer payment methods
Self-service console
Launch and manage AI Cloud resources directly from the Nebius console

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

Nebius

Advantages

Transparent published hourly GPU pricing across extensive NVIDIA lineup with commitment discounts available
Latest Blackwell GB300/GB200 and HGX B300/B200/H200/H100 options for AI training
Self-service console with preemptible pricing options for cost optimization
Vertical integration aimed at predictable pricing and performance with flexible payment methods

Considerations

Regional availability is not fully enumerated on public pages
Premium Blackwell GB300/GB200 models and large HGX capacity require sales engagement
Pricing for ancillary services (storage/network) is less visible than GPU rates

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

Nebius

AI Cloud GPU Instances

On-demand GPU VMs with published hourly rates and commitment discounts.

HGX Clusters

Dense multi-GPU HGX nodes for large-scale training.

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

Nebius

On-demand GPU pricing

Published transparent hourly rates for various NVIDIA GPUs with self-service console access.

Preemptible GPU pricing

Cost-effective preemptible instances for fault-tolerant workloads at lower rates.

HGX cluster pricing

Published per-GPU-hour pricing for HGX B300, HGX B200, HGX H200, and HGX H100 multi-GPU nodes.

Commitment discounts

Save up to 35% versus on-demand with long-term commitments and larger GPU quantities.

Premium Blackwell access

Contact for availability of latest GB300 and GB200 Blackwell Ultra platforms.

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

Nebius

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up and log in to the Nebius AI Cloud console.
2
Add billing or credits
Attach a payment method to unlock on-demand GPU access.
3
Pick a GPU SKU
Choose from H100, H200, L40S, RTX PRO 6000, or HGX cluster configurations from the pricing catalog.
4
Launch and connect
Provision a VM or cluster and connect via SSH or your preferred tooling.
5
Optimize costs
Apply commitment discounts or talk to sales for large reservations.

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

Nebius

Global Regions

GPU clusters deployed across Europe and the US; headquarters in Amsterdam with engineering hubs in Finland, Serbia, and Israel (per About page).

Support

Documentation at docs.nebius.com, self-service AI Cloud console, and contact-sales for capacity or commitments.

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.