What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Shadeform?

Salad Cloud and Shadeform 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 Shadeform?

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 Shadeform?

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 57 different GPU models across both Salad Cloud and Shadeform, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Shadeform

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

Salad Cloud

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Shadeform

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Salad Cloud GPUs

Shadeform GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $1.33/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 57Both available: 1Salad Cloud: 37Shadeform: 21

Showing 15 of 57 GPUs

Last updated: 10/26/2026, 2:07:35 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Shadeform Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.29/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.36/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.36/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.86/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.86/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$6.52/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $6.52/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.29/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform 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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.50/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.50/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$4.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $4.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API

A10 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.29/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.36/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.36/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.86/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.86/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$6.52/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $6.52/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.29/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform 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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★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: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.50/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.50/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$4.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $4.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform 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.

Shadeform

Multi-cloud GPU marketplace
Deploy high quality GPUs across 30+ top clouds worldwide through one platform
Global scale
Scale across 100+ regions in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Unified API and billing
Provision GPU instances across top providers with centralized billing and support
Cost optimization
Users save up to 90% on GPU instances vs traditional cloud providers
Launch tooling
Startup scripts, container launches, templates, persistent volumes and SkyPilot integration documented for instance provisioning
Public instance directory
Browse and compare instances and clouds by GPU type, GPU count and compliance, with interconnect and deployment type shown per listing, before creating an account

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

Shadeform

Advantages

Compare GPU prices across 30+ cloud providers in one place
Single API to deploy on any supported provider
Unified billing across providers
Easy provider switching without vendor lock-in

Considerations

Additional abstraction layer between you and the provider
Feature support may lag behind individual providers
Dependent on underlying provider availability

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.

Shadeform

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.

Shadeform

On-demand instances

GPU instances for everything from quick experiments to scaling production workloads

On-demand clusters

Instantly deployable clusters of up to 64 GPUs, no commitment required

Reserved commitments

Reserve capacity at a discounted rate on terms from one week to three years, quoted by request across partner clouds

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.

Shadeform

Get Started

1
Create account
Sign up to access the Shadeform platform and marketplace
2
Browse marketplace
Explore available GPU instances across providers and regions
3
Deploy instances
Launch GPU instances using the unified console or 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.

Shadeform

Global Regions

GPU clusters deployed across 100+ regions in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia

Support

Documentation with API reference and tutorial library, unified platform console, email support and call scheduling for reservation quotes; managed Kubernetes for reserved clusters available at additional cost