Salad Cloud vs UpCloud

Community-powered consumer GPUs for stateless and high-volume workloads with very competitive pricing.

Data center-grade A100, L40S, and H100 NVL capacity with managed orchestration for compliant workloads.

Deploy containers without managing nodes; scale replicas across thousands of GPUs via the Salad portal.

Public pricing calculator shows hourly rates for all GPU types across both Community and Secure tiers.

Portal access, Developer Hub, and product documentation at docs.salad.com.

No shared hardware — each GPU is always dedicated to a single server with full performance isolation

Helsinki data center powered entirely by renewable energy with up to 90% waste heat recovery for district heating

GDPR-compliant infrastructure in Finland with strong jurisdictional protections and no third-party dependencies

No egress fees — outbound data transfer is included at no extra cost

Pay only for active compute time with hourly billing, no rigid contracts or long-term commitments required