What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Sesterce?

Salad Cloud and Sesterce 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: Salad Cloud or Sesterce?

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 Salad Cloud and Sesterce?

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 52 different GPU models across both Salad Cloud and Sesterce, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Sesterce

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

Salad Cloud

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Salad Cloud GPUs

Sesterce GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.88/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 52Both available: 2Salad Cloud: 37Sesterce: 17

Showing 15 of 52 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:26:28 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Sesterce Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.50/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.50/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.75/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.50/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.50/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1650 4GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.01/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.75/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

Features Comparison

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.

Sesterce

Vertically Integrated AI Factories
Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration
Sovereign European Infrastructure
French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs
SoftBank Joint Venture at Bosquel
A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native
High-Density Liquid Cooling
Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load
InfiniBand Fabric
Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA

Pros & Cons

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

Sesterce

Advantages

Broad on-demand catalog running from Blackwell B300 and H200 down to previous-generation NVIDIA cards, plus Intel Gaudi 2
On-demand, spot, and reserved billing modes on the same clusters
VM and bare-metal deployment with single- and multi-GPU (up to 8x) configurations
AI factory capacity at French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

On-demand instances run in regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, so a self-serve instance is not necessarily hosted in France
Rack-scale GB300 NVL72 and B200 capacity is contracted as reserved AI factory capacity rather than sold from the self-serve catalog
The newest and largest accelerators (B300, H200, Gaudi 2) are only sold as 8-GPU nodes, with no smaller self-serve size

Compute Services

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.

Sesterce

Compute

On-demand VMs and bare-metal servers launched with no commitment

Clusters

Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters ranging from around 100 to 15,000 GPUs

AI Inference

Managed inference instances for serving models alongside GPU compute

Pricing Options

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.

Sesterce

On-Demand

Pay-per-second usage with no commitment on VMs and bare-metal servers

Spot

Discounted interruptible capacity, filterable as a spot offer in the compute catalog

Reserved Capacity

Committed multi-megawatt cluster capacity contracted for frontier-scale workloads

Credit-based Billing

Pre-funded account balance system for streamlined resource management

Getting Started

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.

Sesterce

Get Started

1
Create Account
Sign up for Sesterce Cloud platform access
2
Add Credits
Fund your account with credits for pay-as-you-go billing
3
Launch Instance
Choose your GPU type and configuration, launch in just a few clicks or via the CLI and API

Support & Global Availability

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.

Sesterce

Global Regions

AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; the self-serve on-demand catalog lists regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific

Support

Documentation and API reference, self-service console with help and requests, REST API and CLI, contact sales for reserved capacity