What is the difference between Salad Cloud and SwissGPU?

Salad Cloud and SwissGPU 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 SwissGPU?

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 SwissGPU?

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 38 different GPU models across both Salad Cloud and SwissGPU, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs SwissGPU

Compare GPU pricing between Salad Cloud and SwissGPU. 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

SwissGPU GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.26/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 38Both available: 5Salad Cloud: 37SwissGPU: 6

Showing 15 of 38 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 3:00:09 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	SwissGPU Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
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
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
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.05/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.04/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad 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
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
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.05/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.05/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2080 Ti 11GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3050 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.03/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.04/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.06/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.06/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.

SwissGPU

Dedicated Resources
Every machine is fully dedicated to you, with direct access to GPU, CPU, memory, and storage. There is no virtualization layer and no shared GPU resources.
Isolated GPU Infrastructure
Run AI workloads on isolated GPU resources with secure SSH access.
Permanent Data Wipe
All data and the OS are permanently wiped after server rental ends.
Ultra-Low Latency
Offers ultra-low latency desktops that mimic local experience.
Fully Swiss Hosted
All servers, data, and operations are based in Switzerland.
Per-Minute Billing
Servers are billed per minute and billing stops when the machine is powered off, with no separate storage or network transfer charges.

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

SwissGPU

Advantages

Dedicated bare-metal GPU and compute resources for each client, with no virtualization layer.
Secure SSH access, with all data and the OS permanently wiped at the end of a rental.
Local-like experience with ultra-low latency remote desktops.
Published hourly rates for every GPU configuration, with per-minute billing and no storage or network fees.

Considerations

Consumer and workstation GPUs only — no datacenter accelerators such as H100 or B200 for large-scale training.
Single location: all capacity is in Switzerland, which adds latency for users outside Europe.
Electricity is metered and billed on top of the hourly rate, so the listed rate is not the full cost.

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.

SwissGPU

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.

SwissGPU

Per-minute on-demand billing

Dedicated physical servers billed per minute, with billing stopping when the server is powered off and no additional storage or network charges.

Prepaid credits

Credits are topped up on the platform at any time, with payments processed by Stripe.

Metered electricity

Power consumption is billed separately per kWh on top of the hourly server rate, and a small fee applies when reinstalling the operating system.

Custom configurations and long-term commitments

Negotiated directly with the provider rather than published as self-service rates.

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.

SwissGPU

Get Started

1
Browse available servers
Review the GPU configurations and their CPU, RAM, and NVMe specifications at https://www.swissgpu.ch/rent.
2
Create an account and add credits
Credits can be added to the account at any time; payments are processed through Stripe.
3
Rent a server
Select a configuration and start the rental; billing runs per minute while the server is powered on.
4
Connect to the machine
Access the server over secure SSH, or attach Visual Studio Code using the documented remote workflow.
5
Power off when finished
Billing stops as soon as the server is powered off, and all data and the OS are wiped when the rental ends.

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.

SwissGPU

Global Regions

Fully hosted in Switzerland; no other regions offered.

Support

Documentation site covering connection workflows and per-framework guides, plus a contact form and email support for technical questions and custom configurations.