What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Voltage Park?

Salad Cloud and Voltage Park 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 Voltage Park?

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 Voltage Park?

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 Voltage Park, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Voltage Park

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Salad Cloud GPUs

Voltage Park GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 38Both available: 0Salad Cloud: 37Voltage Park: 1

Showing 15 of 38 GPUs

Last updated: 10/29/2026, 1:39:51 AM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Voltage Park 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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Voltage Park	Not Available	$1.99/hr★ Best	—	Voltage Park
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Voltage Park $1.99/hour Updated: 10/23/2026 ★Best Price Voltage Park
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Salad API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Voltage Park	Not Available	$1.99/hr★ Best	—	Voltage Park
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Voltage Park $1.99/hour Updated: 10/23/2026 ★Best Price Voltage Park
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud	$0.02/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Salad API
RTX 2060 6GB VRAM • Salad Cloud $0.02/hour Updated: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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: 10/28/2026 ★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.

Voltage Park

High-Performance Hardware
NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs in Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with 1TB RAM and v52 CPUs
Tier 3+ Data Centers
Six U.S.-based data centers with redundancy, availability, and reliability across power, cooling, network, and security
Blazing-Fast Network
NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand network with up to 3,200Gbps of aggregate bandwidth for high-speed communication
Bare Metal Access
Direct hardware access for maximum performance without virtualization overhead
AI Factory Platform
Integrated platform of prebuilt blueprints — image, video and podcast generation, agentic RAG, spreadsheet analysis, SAM3 image/video segmentation, markdown conversion — plus a model playground
Flexible Deployment Options
Bare-metal access, managed Kubernetes, and virtual machines to match different workload needs

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

Voltage Park

Advantages

Great GPU availability for on-demand use
No separate ingress, egress, or support charges
Fast deployment (spin up nodes in 15 minutes)
Bare metal access for maximum performance

Considerations

U.S.-only regions (limited global presence)
Low GPU variety (primarily H100s)
Relatively new provider (founded 2023)

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.

Voltage Park

On-Demand GPU Access

Self-serve GPU instances available in minutes with no long-term contracts

Reserved GPU Clusters

Long‑term GPU reservations with favorable payment terms; H100 and Blackwell options.

6+ month contracts
Friendly payment terms

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.

Voltage Park

On-Demand (Ethernet)

Self-serve, pay-as-you-go bare-metal H100 nodes on Ethernet with no minimum term

On-Demand (InfiniBand)

Self-serve, pay-as-you-go bare-metal H100 nodes on 3,200 Gbps InfiniBand with no minimum term

Long-Term Reserve

Dedicated reserved capacity on 6+ month contracts with negotiated payment terms; the only route to Blackwell systems

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.

Voltage Park

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for Voltage Park services through their website
2
Choose deployment option
Select between on-demand access or long-term reservation
3
Configure your cluster
Specify the number of GPUs and networking requirements
4
Deploy and access
Launch your cluster and access via SSH or preferred tools

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.

Voltage Park

Global Regions

Six Tier 3+ designed data centers across four U.S. states

Support

24/7 expert support included at no extra cost; self-serve help center at support.voltagepark.com (also reachable at docs.voltagepark.com); infrastructure partnership with Penguin Solutions for setup and optimization