What is the difference between Omega Gradient and Salad Cloud?

Omega Gradient 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: Omega Gradient 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 Omega Gradient 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 63 different GPU models across both Omega Gradient and Salad Cloud, with 0 models available from both providers.

Omega Gradient vs Salad Cloud

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Omega Gradient GPUs

Salad Cloud GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.23/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 63Both available: 14Omega Gradient: 40Salad Cloud: 37

Showing 15 of 63 GPUs

Last updated: 10/22/2026, 3:48:37 AM

GPU Model ↑	Omega Gradient Price	Salad Cloud Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.36/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A10 24GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.36/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.54/hour Updated: 10/20/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.42/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.42/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.45/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.47/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.47/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A40 48GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.96/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A40 48GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.96/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$9.98/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $9.98/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.16/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.16/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog 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: 10/21/2026 ★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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.08/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
GTX 1080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.08/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Omega GradientSalad Cloud	$0.06/hr 2x GPU	$0.02/hr★ Best	↑+$0.04(+200.0%)	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.06/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/20/2026 Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.04(+200.0%) Omega Gradient Catalog Feed 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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 Ti 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.08/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
GTX 1660 Ti 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.08/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed

A10 24GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.36/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A10 24GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.36/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.54/hour Updated: 10/20/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.42/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.42/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.45/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.47/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.47/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A40 48GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.96/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
A40 48GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.96/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$9.98/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $9.98/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$1.16/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $1.16/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog 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: 10/21/2026 ★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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.08/hr★ Best 2x GPU	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
GTX 1080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.08/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Omega GradientSalad Cloud	$0.06/hr 2x GPU	$0.02/hr★ Best	↑+$0.04(+200.0%)	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.06/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/20/2026 Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.04(+200.0%) Omega Gradient Catalog Feed 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: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Salad API
GTX 1660 Ti 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient	$0.08/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Omega Gradient Catalog Feed
GTX 1660 Ti 6GB VRAM • Omega Gradient $0.08/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Omega Gradient Catalog Feed

Features Comparison

Omega Gradient

Live on-demand marketplace
Catalog of GPU listings from multiple suppliers, deployable as containers, VMs, or bare metal, with per-listing region, fabric (PCIe, SXM, NVLink), and boot-time details
Reserved cluster sourcing desk
Request-based sourcing for reserved capacity, matching workload requirements against a tracked supplier network with responses targeted within 24 hours
Market pricing intelligence
Monitors suppliers and public price sources across regions, publishing a cloud GPU price index and supplier pricing reports for benchmarking before commitment
All-in hourly billing
Listings show a single all-in hourly price with per-GPU breakdowns; billing is prepaid from credits and accrues per hour only while an instance exists
Vendor-neutral supplier comparisons
Sources capacity from many independent suppliers rather than operating its own data centers, comparing options across price, region, and hardware configuration

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

Omega Gradient

Advantages

Wide GPU selection spanning consumer to enterprise tiers, including B300, H200, H100, A100, L40S, and RTX 5090
Single all-in hourly price per listing with no separate egress charges
Market benchmarking data available before committing to a supplier
Multi-region inventory across North America, Europe, and Asia

Considerations

Supplier identities are withheld until qualification
Reserved cluster sourcing requires a request-and-response process rather than instant provisioning
Newer platform with a smaller track record than established marketplaces

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

Omega Gradient

On-Demand GPU Instances

Marketplace listings deployable as containers, VMs, or bare metal across supplier regions.

Configurations from single GPUs to 10-GPU nodes
PCIe, SXM, and NVLink fabric options listed per offering

Reserved Cluster Sourcing

Brokered sourcing of reserved GPU clusters from the tracked supplier network.

Requirements-based matching across bare-metal, private cloud, and colocation suppliers
Sourced options returned within 24 hours

Pricing Intelligence

Published market data covering supplier pricing and availability.

Cloud GPU price index across tracked public price sources
Supplier pricing reports for market benchmarking

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

Omega Gradient

On-Demand

Single all-in hourly price per listing, prepaid from credits and billed only while the instance exists

Reserved Clusters

Quoted per sourcing request through the desk, with terms set by the matched supplier

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

Omega Gradient

Get Started

1
Browse the marketplace
Open the live compute catalog and filter listings by GPU model, region, and configuration.
2
Select a configuration
Pick a listing, from single GPUs up to multi-GPU clusters, and review its all-in hourly rate.
3
Choose an OS template
Select Ubuntu with CUDA, PyTorch, or JupyterLab as the instance image.
4
Add an SSH key
Provide an SSH public key or generate one in the browser for instance access.
5
Deploy
Launch the instance; billing accrues hourly from prepaid credits while it runs. For reserved clusters, submit a sourcing request instead and await matched options.

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

Omega Gradient

Global Regions

Marketplace inventory across US East, Central, and West, Canada, Europe West, South, and East, India, and Asia Northeast, plus globally flexible listings, with availability tracked across nineteen regions

Support

Live marketplace with per-listing details; sourcing desk requests answered within 24 hours

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.