GPU.ai vs Salad
As of , GPU.ai and Salad share 3 GPUs today, but on none do both list an on-demand rate: at least one side is community capacity or a marketplace floor, compared below and not counted. On the priciest shared card, NVIDIA RTX 5090: GPU.ai $1.19 (from) vs Salad $0.60 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted. On other people's machines - community capacity and marketplace floors, a market of its own - Salad lists the lower rate on 3 of the 3 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  GPU.ai |  Salad | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.79 · 23 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.50 | $1.19 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.60 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.48 · 17 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.35 | $0.89 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.44 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 median $0.42 · 10 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.18 | $0.50 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.20 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
Community capacity and marketplace floors, per GPU-hour
Capacity on other people's machines, compared on its own: a community rate is a fixed list price for a machine a third party hosts; a marketplace floor is the median of the five cheapest verified offers at the time of reading, and moves with supply. Either can be taken back sooner than an on-demand rate card, and neither enters the verdict above or any median.
| GPU | GPU.ai | Salad | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.69 community captured | $0.25 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.44 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.34 community captured | $0.16 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.18 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | $0.22 community captured | $0.09 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.13 |
Spot / interruptible, per GPU-hour
| GPU | GPU.ai | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | — | $0.25 captured |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | — | $0.16 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | — | $0.09 captured |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of GPU.ai and Salad, compared per GPU-hour on the GPUs both list. Where a provider has several tiers or regions, its cheapest on-demand rate is used and labelled. Community capacity (RunPod Community Cloud) and marketplace floors are shown only where a provider has nothing else, and never decide which is cheaper.
GPU by GPU
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: GPU.ai $1.19 (from) vs Salad $0.60 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: GPU.ai $0.89 (from) vs Salad $0.44 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: GPU.ai $0.50 (from) vs Salad $0.20 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
Not compared: GPUs only one of the two lists, reserved/committed tiers, and anything either provider prices only on request. See each provider's page for its full list.
Data updated: