RunPod vs Salad
As of , RunPod and Salad share 9 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: RunPod $1.19 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.50 (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 9 of the 9 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  RunPod |  Salad | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.79 · 15 providers · lowest HexGrid $0.55 | $1.19 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.50 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.49 · 15 providers · lowest CloudRift $0.39 | $0.89 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.33 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 median $0.48 · 2 providers · lowest SwissGPU $0.36 | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.26 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 median $0.50 · 7 providers · lowest SwissGPU $0.30 | $0.50 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.17 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | $0.46 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.19 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | $0.27 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.23 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | $0.19 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.20 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | $0.18 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.15 High priority captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 median $0.35 · 2 providers · lowest SynpixCloud $0.23 | $0.17 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.14 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 | RunPod | Salad | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.69 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.25 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.44 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.34 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.16 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.18 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | $0.39 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.15 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.24 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | $0.22 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.09 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.13 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | $0.27 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.10 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.17 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | $0.27 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.11 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.16 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | $0.19 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.08 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.11 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | $0.18 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.08 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.10 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | $0.17 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.06 community · Lowest priority captured | Salad, by $0.11 |
Spot / interruptible, per GPU-hour
| GPU | RunPod | Salad |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | — | $0.25 captured |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | — | $0.16 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | — | $0.15 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | — | $0.09 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | — | $0.10 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | — | $0.11 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | — | $0.08 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | — | $0.08 captured |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | — | $0.06 captured |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of RunPod 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: RunPod $1.19 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.50 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: RunPod $0.89 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.33 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: RunPod $0.59 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.26 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: RunPod $0.50 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.17 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: RunPod $0.46 (Secure Cloud) vs Salad $0.19 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080: RunPod $0.27 (Community Cloud) vs Salad $0.23 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: RunPod $0.19 (Community Cloud) vs Salad $0.20 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: RunPod $0.18 (Community Cloud) vs Salad $0.15 (High priority) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080: RunPod $0.17 (Community Cloud) vs Salad $0.14 (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: