GPU cloud comparison · 2026
Crusoe vs Salad
Crusoe wins on 4 of 5 key metrics — but the right choice depends on your workload.
Overall Winner
Crusoe
Climate-aligned GPU cloud — H100, H200, B200 and MI300X on green energy
from $0.40/h
★★★★☆ 4.4 / 5 (412 reviews)
Try Crusoe →VS
Salad
Distributed inference cloud — RTX 3090/4090 from $0.03/h
from $0.03/h
★★★★☆ 3.9 / 5 (423 reviews)
Try Salad →Head-to-Head Comparison
Crusoe
Salad
Starting Price Lower hourly rate
from $0.40/h
from $0.03/h
Overall Rating User rating
4.4 / 5
3.9 / 5
GPU Types Variety
6 types
4 types
Max VRAM Largest available
192 GB
24 GB
Locations Regions covered
US, Iceland
Global (distributed)
Wins out of 5
4
1
GPU Availability
Crusoe
H100H200B200A100 80GBL40SMI300X
VRAM: 48–192 GB · Locations: US, Iceland
Salad
RTX 3090RTX 4090RTX 3080RTX 3070
VRAM: 8–24 GB · Locations: Global (distributed)
Pros & Cons
Crusoe
Pros
- Among the cheapest H200 access — from $2.10/h
- B200 availability while most clouds wait-list
- InfiniBand 3.2 Tb interconnects for serious multi-node
- Climate-positive operations (uses flared methane)
Cons
- Smaller GPU variety than RunPod
- Region selection limited (mostly US + Iceland)
- Sales-led for large deployments
Salad
Pros
- Absurdly cheap — RTX 3090 from $0.03/h
- Massive horizontal scale (1000+ nodes)
- Auto-fleet management for inference
- No data-egress charges
Cons
- Distributed = no persistent storage
- Not suitable for training
- Latency varies by node geography
Which Should You Choose?
Choose Crusoe if…
- You need GPU compute for LLM training at scale
- You need GPU compute for Multi-node H100/H200 jobs
- You need GPU compute for Sustainable AI workloads
- You need GPU compute for AMD MI300X clusters
- Higher user satisfaction matters (4.4 vs 3.9)
- You want more GPU variety (6 vs 4 types)
Choose Salad if…
- You need GPU compute for Stateless inference
- You need GPU compute for Stable Diffusion bulk generation
- You need GPU compute for Embedding generation
- You need GPU compute for Cost-sensitive batch jobs
- Lower price is your top priority (from $0.03/h vs from $0.40/h)