Billing & Pricing

Learn how billing works with Salad

We require an active, valid credit card on file for most accounts. This is primarily a means to prevent abuse and ensure that we can collect payment at the end of the month.

How Are Charges Calculated?

Salad only charges for the hardware resources that are dedicated to your application while your container is Running on one of our machines. Our flexible billing model allows you to customize each machine to your exact hardware requirements, no more selecting an instance type from an endlessly long pricing sheet.

Hardware Resources

When creating a Container Group in SCE, you select the required hardware that will be dedicated to your application when it runs on Salad. The current rate for each type of hardware can be found on our pricing page.

Example 1

You create a Container Group with 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, no GPU, and 10 replicas

Per Instance Cost = 1 vCPU x $0.004 per vCPU + 2 GB x $0.001 per GB = $0.006/hr

Total Cost = $0.006/hr (per Instance) x 10 replicas = $0.06/hr

Example 2

You create a Container Group with 4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM, RTX 3060 GPU, and 5 replicas

Per Instance Cost = 4 vCPU x $0.004 per vCPU + 6 GB x $0.001 per GB + 1 RTX 3060 x $0.08 = $0.132/hr

Total Cost = $0.132/hr (per Instance) x 5 replicas = $0.66/hr

Running Time

Salad bills for the time that the selected hardware resources are dedicated to your application, although it is common to see hourly rates listed on Salad, usage is tracked per second.

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Never Pay for Cold Boot Time Again

You only pay for the time that the hardware is available to used by your application, you will never pay for Cold Boot time.

Salad Billing Lifecycle

When the Container Group is Started, there is a initialization process to allocate your container to the ideal hardware, including selecting the machine, downloading the container, and loading the container into the containerd runtime. This initialization process is NOT included in your bill. Once your container starts running, you will start to accrue usage changes.

Salad Billing Lifecycle

When the Container Group is Started, there is a initialization process to allocate your container to the ideal hardware, including selecting the machine, downloading the container, and loading the container into the containerd runtime. This initialization process is NOT included in your bill. Once your container starts running, you will start to accrue usage changes.

Monitoring Usage

You can monitor the current month's usage and view previous invoices directly in the SaladCloud Portal.

Volume Discounts

Looking to deploy 50+ GPU instances on Salad? Reach out to the team for volume pricing.

Preauthorization Requests

We may send a preauthorization request to the issuing bank to verify a bank will authorize charges. Some credit card companies present these as real charges, which may surprise you.

A preauth is really just a hold on a credit card. We'll typically preauthorize a small amount (usually $10) when a new payment method is added to your Organization, then cancel the authorization immediately. Banks may show the preauth for up to 7 days, even though we have not collected any money.