What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Together AI?

Salad Cloud and Together AI 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 Together AI?

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 Together AI?

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 45 different GPU models across both Salad Cloud and Together AI, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Together AI

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

Salad Cloud

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Together AI

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Salad Cloud GPUs

Together AI GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 45Both available: 0Salad Cloud: 37Together AI: 8

Showing 15 of 45 GPUs

Last updated: 10/25/2026, 9:47:45 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Together AI Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$9.00/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $9.00/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware 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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$5.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $5.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$6.60/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $6.60/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $1.49/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.10/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.10/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware 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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API

A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$9.00/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $9.00/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware 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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$5.40/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $5.40/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$6.60/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $6.60/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $1.49/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Together AI	Not Available	$2.10/hr★ Best	—	Together AI Hardware API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Together AI $2.10/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Together AI Hardware 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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★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: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 54Both available: 0Salad Cloud: 0Together AI: 54

Showing 15 of 54 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/25/2026, 9:47:44 PM

Model ↑	Salad Cloud	Together AI	Input Diff ↕
DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek	Not available	$0.800 in $0.800 out	—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek	Not available	$2.00 in $2.00 out	—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek	Not available	$0.180 in $0.180 out	—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek	Not available	$1.60 in $1.60 out	—
DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek	Not available	$0.600 in $1.70 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	Not available	$1.32 in $3.96 out	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.300 in $1.20 out	—
Gemma 2 27B Google	Not available	$0.800 in $0.800 out	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	Not available	$0.390 in $0.970 out	—
GLM-4.5 Air Z.ai	Not available	$0.200 in $1.10 out	—
GLM-4.6 Z.ai	Not available	$0.600 in $2.20 out	—
GLM-4.7 Z.ai	Not available	$0.450 in $2.00 out	—
GLM-5 Z.ai	Not available	$1.00 in $3.20 out	—
GLM-5.1 Z.ai	Not available	$1.40 in $4.40 out	—
GLM-5.2 Z.ai	Not available	$1.40 in $4.40 out	—

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.

Together AI

100+ Open-Source Models
Access to Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and other leading open-source models
Serverless Inference
Pay-per-token API with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
Fine-Tuning Platform
LoRA and full fine-tuning with proprietary optimizations
GPU Clusters
Instant self-service or reserved dedicated clusters with H100, H200, B200, GB200, GB300 access
Batch API
50% cost reduction for non-urgent inference workloads
Provisioned Throughput
Reserve dedicated capacity in throughput units (PTUs) with SLAs

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

Together AI

Advantages

2x faster inference and 90% faster pre-training with research-based optimizations
Competitive pricing with 50% batch API discount
Wide selection of 100+ open-source models
OpenAI-compatible APIs for easy migration

Considerations

Primarily focused on open-source models
GPU cluster pricing requires custom quotes for reserved capacity
Smaller ecosystem compared to major cloud providers

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.

Together AI

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.

Together AI

Serverless pay-per-token

Per-token pricing scales based on model size, from small open-source models to 405B parameter frontier models

Batch API

50% discount for non-urgent inference workloads

Provisioned Throughput

Reserve dedicated capacity priced in throughput units (PTUs) with guaranteed SLAs

Fine-tuning

Per-token pricing for LoRA and full fine-tuning based on model size and dataset

GPU Clusters - On-demand

Hourly GPU pricing for instant self-service clusters

GPU Clusters - Reserved

Custom pricing for reserved capacity with significant discounts for longer commitments

Dedicated Inference

Single-tenant GPU instances with guaranteed performance

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.

Together AI

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up at together.ai
2
Get API key
Generate an API key from your dashboard
3
Choose a model
Browse 100+ models for chat, code, images, video, and audio
4
Make API calls
Use OpenAI-compatible endpoints or Together SDK

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.

Together AI

Global Regions

Global data center network across 25+ cities with frontier hardware including GB300, GB200, B200, H200, H100

Support

Documentation, community Discord, email support, and expert support for reserved cluster customers