What is the difference between Salad Cloud and Vultr?

Salad Cloud and Vultr 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 Vultr?

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 Vultr?

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 Vultr, with 0 models available from both providers.

Salad Cloud vs Vultr

Compare GPU pricing between Salad Cloud and Vultr. 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

Vultr GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 45Both available: 0Salad Cloud: 37Vultr: 8

Showing 15 of 45 GPUs

Last updated: 10/30/2026, 6:27:37 PM

GPU Model ↑	Salad Cloud Price	Vultr Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best 4x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.40/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$3.20/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $3.20/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.99/hr★ Best	—	Vultr plans API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.99/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans 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
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.30/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.30/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
MI355X 288GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.59/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
MI355X 288GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.59/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans 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

A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.40/hr★ Best 4x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.40/hour 4x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$3.20/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $3.20/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.99/hr★ Best	—	Vultr plans API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.99/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans 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
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.30/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.30/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans API
MI355X 288GB VRAM • Vultr	Not Available	$2.59/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Vultr plans API
MI355X 288GB VRAM • Not Available Vultr $2.59/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price Vultr plans 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

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.

Vultr

AMD and NVIDIA GPU Options
Access to diverse GPU options including AMD Instinct and NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs
Global Availability
Deploy GPU resources across 32 cloud data center regions worldwide
Kubernetes Support
Vultr Kubernetes Engine for GPU-accelerated containerized workloads
Serverless Inference
Deploy and scale GenAI models quickly with Vultr Serverless Inference
Virtual Machines and Bare Metal
Choose between GPU-accelerated VMs or dedicated bare metal servers
Global Content Delivery
Accelerate content delivery across six continents with Vultr CDN

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

Vultr

Advantages

Wide range of AMD and NVIDIA GPU options
Extensive global network (32 data center regions)
Both VM and bare metal deployment options
Kubernetes and containerization support

Considerations

Medium GPU availability compared to some specialized providers
Less established in the GPU market compared to major hyperscalers
Limited documentation specific to GPU workloads

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.

Vultr

NVIDIA GPU Instances

Virtual machines and bare metal servers with NVIDIA GPUs

AMD GPU Instances

Computing infrastructure powered by AMD Instinct accelerators

Vultr Kubernetes Engine

Managed Kubernetes service for GPU-accelerated containerized applications

GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters
Global deployment options

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.

Vultr

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.

Vultr

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for a free Vultr account
2
Select GPU instance
Choose from AMD or NVIDIA GPU options based on your workload
3
Choose deployment type
Select between virtual machine or bare metal deployment
4
Configure and launch
Set up networking, storage, and security options before launching

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.

Vultr

Global Regions

32 global cloud data center regions across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia

Support

Documentation, community forums, support tickets, and dedicated customer support