SaladCloud

What is SaladCloud?

SaladCloud, or Salad, is a cloud orchestration platform that coordinates idle GPUs across 16,000+ daily active devices in 190+ countries. It runs containerized AI workloads on consumer GPUs at lower cost.

Key capabilities of SaladCloud

• Community Cloud: On-demand GPUs from $0.015 per GPU-hour with no contracts or minimums.
• Salad Dedicated: Reserved hardware.
• Private Cloud: Runs on your own infrastructure.
• Container Engine: Schedules Docker containers and reallocates on node failure.
• AI gateway: OpenAI-compatible API for LLM inference.
• Priority tiers: High, Medium, Low and Lowest match interruptible supply.

How SaladCloud works

You deploy Docker containers to the Salad Container Engine, which schedules them across distributed nodes and moves workloads when a node disconnects. Billing covers actual runtime. Containers run inside hypervisor-isolated Linux virtual machines with encrypted storage and transit, and nodes are continuously trust-rated.

Who uses SaladCloud?

Teams running image generation, LLM inference and batch AI workloads where cost matters. Civitai reports serving 10 million images per day on 600+ Salad GPUs, and Blend reports 3X scale at half the cost.

SaladCloud pricing

Community Cloud starts at $0.015 per GPU-hour, with priority tiers affecting price and interruption risk. Salad Dedicated and Private Cloud are separate, and LLM inference offers per-token or flat monthly billing.

SaladCloud alternatives

Related tools include SiliconFlow, Crusoe and Featherless for GPU and inference hosting, while DeepSpeed and ONNX are optimization and model format libraries.