At the 06:39 UTC read on 2026-09-30, one seller in our tables prints four different prices for the same graphics card. Salad lists the RTX 5090 at $0.50 per GPU-hour, and also at $0.417, at $0.333 and at $0.25. The card is the same on all four lines; what changes is how easily somebody else can take the machine away from you. Its rate card was read here for the first time this morning: 48 rows, 12 cards, four tiers each.
Four tiers, in the seller’s own words
Salad’s pricing table is headed “USD per GPU-hour by priority tier”, and the page says what each tier buys. Of High: “Never preempted by other workloads.” Of Medium and Low: “May be preempted by higher-priority groups,” with a minimum run of roughly 30 minutes before reallocation. The fourth it calls Lowest (Batch), and describes as “the lowest-cost tier,” meant on its telling for retryable batch work.
That wording is why this site records the top rung as an on-demand rate and the other three as spot. It is not a bid market, but it is the bargain a spot price makes: a lower number against the risk of interruption. Each tier is kept as its own quote, its name in the region column, so the four never average into one.
The distance between the ends is not one discount applied everywhere. The RTX 4070 Ti runs from $0.20 down to $0.08, its bottom rung 40% of its top; the RTX 5080 from $0.26 down to $0.15, or 58%. Across the twelve cards we read, Lowest sits between 40% and 58% of High.
The two middle rungs are arithmetic
The ends differ card by card. What happens between them does not.
Take the RTX 5090 again. Its ends are $0.50 and $0.25, and the two rungs Salad prints between them are $0.417 and $0.333 — each step down is a third of that $0.25 gap, because 3 × $0.0833 covers the whole of it. The RTX 4090 works the same way: ends of $0.33 and $0.16, printed rungs of $0.273 and $0.217, where 3 × $0.0567 spans the gap. So does the RTX 3080, ends of $0.14 and $0.06, rungs of $0.113 and $0.087, where 3 × $0.0267 spans it.
That holds on all twelve we read, to the tenth of a cent: two of the four numbers on each line carry no information the other two do not. A reader setting Salad’s Medium tier against another seller’s spot rate is comparing against an interpolation.
Where the twelve cards sit against everyone else
Two arrived in our catalogue this morning: the RTX 5070 at 05:03 UTC and the RTX 4070 at 05:04, each with two sources on day one — Salad’s rate card at $0.165 and $0.15 on High priority, Clore.ai’s marketplace floor at $0.1969 and $0.2625.
Counting rate cards only — marketplace floors are a different kind of number, kept apart on this site — Salad’s High-priority rate is the cheapest on-demand rate card we read on 11 of the 12 cards we take from it. On the RTX 5090 it is $0.50 against $0.55 at HexGrid, the next rate card down the page. On the RTX 4090, $0.33 against $0.34 at RunPod. The twelfth is the RTX 4070 Ti, where RunPod’s Community Cloud prints $0.19 against Salad’s $0.20.
Nothing here is forecast and nothing is a recommendation: it is what those sellers had printed on their own pages at 06:39 UTC on 30 September 2026.
How to check any number here
Every figure above is listed in this piece’s sources with the page it came from and the minute it was read. Salad’s pricing page draws its table with a script, so the rates are not in the HTML: they come from a file the page loads, open with no key and no account, and the script writes exactly those figures into the table a visitor sees. The tier names and the wording quoted here are on the page itself.
These figures are frozen at 2026-09-30; our live pages — /providers/salad, and each
card’s own page — carry whatever the latest hourly read found, with the capture time on
every row.