What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Spheron?

Salad Cloud and Spheron 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 Spheron?

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 Spheron?

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 47 different GPU models across both Salad Cloud and Spheron, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Spheron

Compare GPU pricing between Salad Cloud and Spheron. 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

Spheron GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.38/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 47Both available: 2Salad Cloud: 37Spheron: 12

Showing 15 of 47 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:28:00 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Spheron Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$1.19/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $1.19/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$5.44/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $5.44/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
GH200 96GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.02/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
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 • Spheron	Not Available	$2.65/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $2.65/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.89/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$5.84/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $5.84/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$0.96/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $0.96/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.59/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.59/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API

A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$1.19/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $1.19/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$5.44/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $5.44/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
GH200 96GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.02/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
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 • Spheron	Not Available	$2.65/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $2.65/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.89/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.89/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$5.84/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $5.84/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$0.96/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $0.96/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Spheron	Not Available	$3.59/hr★ Best	—	Spheron GPU pricing feed
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Spheron $3.59/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Spheron GPU pricing feed
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad 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.

Spheron

Multi-provider marketplace
Access GPU capacity from multiple cloud providers and certified data centers from one account, without separate signups per provider
Per-minute billing
Instances are billed by the minute rather than rounded up to the hour, past a 20-minute minimum runtime (60 minutes for a 2x AMD MI300X)
Fast provisioning
NVIDIA instances are typically ready in under two minutes with no approval workflow or provisioning queue
Unified billing and cost tracking
Compute spend across every connected provider is tracked in a single dashboard
Full root access instances
Each VM or bare metal instance includes NVMe SSD storage, network bandwidth and full root access, with a dedicated IP on NVIDIA instances
Supplier matchmaking
Spheron sources large clusters, specific hardware and InfiniBand configurations from its partner data center network, with a typical quote turnaround of 24-48 hours

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

Spheron

Advantages

One account and dashboard spans several GPU clouds, avoiding per-provider lock-in
Per-minute billing past a short minimum runtime, with no contract or long-term commitment
Wide NVIDIA range from RTX 4090 through B300 plus the AMD MI300X, with GB200, GB300 and R100 available to reserve
Spot instances run the same hardware at up to 50% off dedicated rates

Considerations

Capacity is supplied by third-party data centers, so hardware, regions and operational experience vary by partner
Spot instances are interruptible and can be reclaimed when demand returns
Large clusters, custom configurations and reserved capacity go through sales rather than self-service

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.

Spheron

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.

Spheron

On-Demand Dedicated Instances

Non-interruptible instances covered by an uptime SLA and billed per minute, with no contract or long-term commitment

Spot Instances

Idle capacity on the same hardware at up to 50% off dedicated rates, interruptible when the provider reclaims it

Reserved Commitments

Commit to a duration for locked capacity, volume pricing and dedicated support

Custom Clusters

Quoted deployments from 8 to 512+ GPUs with specific hardware and InfiniBand configurations sourced from partner data centers

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.

Spheron

Get Started

1
Pick your GPU
Browse available GPU models with live pricing and filter by VRAM, architecture or price
2
Configure and launch
Choose a region, storage and OS image, then deploy; instances are provisioned in around two minutes
3
Build, train, iterate
SSH in and start working, switch to another GPU model at any time, or spin down to stop per-minute billing
4
Request a quote for larger needs
Submit requirements for reserved capacity or custom clusters and Spheron sources, negotiates and sets up the deployment

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.

Spheron

Global Regions

Capacity sourced from vetted Tier 3/4 partner data centers spanning multiple continents; region is selected at deploy time

Support

Documentation, API reference and changelog at docs.spheron.ai, plus sales contact and call scheduling for reserved capacity and custom cluster quotes