SaladCloud pricing: GPU rental rates
checked 22 October 2026
SaladCloud rents 17 GPU models today, from $0.06 an hour (RTX 3080, community cloud). Storage, data transfer and billing rules are under the prices.
- 17 offers
- 17 GPU models
- Source salad.com
In today's data: None of its 13 matching prices changed since 15 October 2026; 4 configurations are new.
SaladCloud runs container workloads on a distributed network of consumer PCs whose owners share their GPUs for rewards. That model makes it one of the cheapest sources of consumer cards like the RTX 5090, 5080, 4090 and 3090, with the tradeoff that capacity comes from individual machines rather than datacenters. The public pricing table lists batch-priority rates that bundle a baseline container of 8GB RAM and 4 vCPUs; we track those rates daily and label them community tier.
Compare the full daily GPU market
What else you pay at SaladCloud
Besides the GPU rate: Billing is per second. A stopped instance: billed only while running; billing stops when the instance stops, is reallocated or is preempted. Deposit or first charge: prepaid credits, added $5 to $10,000 at a time. SaladCloud does not publish its storage price or data-out price. Each of these was checked on SaladCloud's own documentation on 17 October 2026. Add the charges that apply to you in the job cost calculator.
SaladCloud prices, checked 22 October 2026
More filters: provider, memory, node size, stock, sort, price unit
| GPU / provider | Billing | $/GPU-hour | Node · total per hour | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3080 · SaladCloud10 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.06 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5060 · SaladCloud8 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.065 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.07 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4070 · SaladCloud12 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.07 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4070 Ti · SaladCloud12 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.08 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5070 · SaladCloud12 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.08 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 3080 Ti · SaladCloud12 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.08 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.08 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.09 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 3090 · SaladCloud24 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.09 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5090 Laptop · SaladCloud24 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.10 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5070 Ti · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.10 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 3090 Ti · SaladCloud24 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.10 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4080 · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.11 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5080 · SaladCloud16 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.15 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 4090 · SaladCloud24 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.16 | – | Rent → |
| RTX 5090 · SaladCloud32 GB | community cloudlowest priority, interruptible | $0.25 | – | Rent → |
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Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering. How we collect and rank prices.
Same GPU, provider, billing and price on several hosts or listings: one row, with the count. – means the provider does not state it.
Monthly view assumes 730 hours of continuous use. Daily view assumes 24 hours.
Cite this data
GPU Rental Prices, "Salad cloud GPU pricing: rates and total costs", prices checked 22 October 2026, https://gpurentalprices.com/providers/salad
Quote it with a link to this page. Downloads of the whole dataset are on Data & API.
Cheapest listed per-GPU-hour rates verified at the source. Before storage, egress and networking.
SaladCloud access and company facts
| Check | Published information | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum account funding | prepaid credits, added $5 to $10,000 at a time | 17 October 2026 |
| Founded | 2018 | 17 October 2026 |
| Where most nodes are | Nodes in the US and Canada are 50 to 60% of the total | 18 October 2026 |
| GPU nodes | 16,000+ daily active GPUs in 190+ countries | 18 October 2026 |
A company fact or certification is not a guarantee for every product or region. Unrecorded fields are left unknown. The smallest recorded node does not establish immediate stock or account approval.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
Trade-offs
- Egress pricing not published
- Deposit or first charge: prepaid credits, added $5 to $10,000 at a time
Computed from the verified fees and platform matrix (cells checked 17 October 2026 at SaladCloud's own documentation; verified items link to their source). Full matrices: fees · enterprise.
Pricing model
Salad prices GPU container instances per hour, with the cost determined by how long each container instance runs. The published GPU table is for the batch priority level, the lowest of Salad's priority tiers, and each row includes a baseline of 8GB RAM and 4 vCPUs; instances are customizable to other GPU, vCPU and RAM shapes. Higher priority levels (lowest, low, medium, high) are priced through the site's calculator rather than a static table, so we publish the batch rates the page itself commits to.
Capacity model
SaladCloud is a distributed network: compute comes from consumer PCs running the Salad agent, not from a datacenter fleet the company owns. Workloads run as containers via the Salad Container Engine. Because nodes are consumer machines, treat capacity as interruption-tolerant and design for checkpointing; the priority-tier system exists precisely because workloads compete for node time. We label Salad offers community tier, the same label we use for other peer-hardware marketplaces, and never as firm on-demand capacity.
GPU lineup
The public table lists consumer GeForce cards only: RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 4090, RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3090, RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060. No datacenter GPUs (H100 class) appear on the current pricing page. CPU-only general-purpose, CPU-optimized and memory-optimized instance shapes are also published.
Who should pick SaladCloud
Pick SaladCloud for interruption-tolerant, throughput-oriented GPU work on consumer cards: batch inference, image generation, transcription and similar container jobs where the lowest cost per GPU-hour beats guaranteed node stability. It is a poor fit for workloads needing datacenter GPUs, large VRAM pools, multi-GPU nodes or strict uptime guarantees. A formal public uptime SLA for GPU workloads was not found in the pages reviewed. Not publicly documented.
Similar providers
RunPod
Secure Cloud (datacenter, reliable) and Community Cloud (peer hosts, cheaper). Per-second billing, serverless option.
from $0.24/hr secure cloud
8 GPU families in common
TensorDock
GPU marketplace with host-listed machines; GPU rate excludes vCPU/RAM/storage, billed a la carte per second.
from $0.10/hr on-demand
2 GPU families in common
Ranked by overlap in the GPU models both providers list today; not an endorsement and never affected by commercial relationships.
FAQ
Capacity comes from consumer PCs in a distributed network, and the public pricing is tiered by priority level, so workloads should be designed as interruption-tolerant. We label Salad rates community tier, not firm on-demand.
The published batch-priority rates include the GPU plus a baseline container of 8GB RAM and 4 vCPUs. Instances are customizable to other shapes through the pricing calculator.
The current public pricing table lists consumer GeForce cards only. No H100-class datacenter rows appear on the page we verify.
Profile checked 18 July 2026. Sources: salad.com · salad.com