> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.salad.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create An Account

> Start using the powerful network of SaladCloud GPUs in under 5 minutes

*Last Updated: October 30, 2024*

## Create your SaladCloud Account

The first thing you will need to do is create a SaladCloud account on the [SaladCloud Portal](https://portal.salad.com/)

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/salad/B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8/general/images/salad-quickstart-1.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8&q=85&s=958aab710713df710109260ecc14fd3f" alt="SaladCloud Login Page" width="1625" height="744" data-path="general/images/salad-quickstart-1.png" />

## Create a new Organization and Project

An Organization allows you to collaborate with your team. Once you create an organization, you can invite others to
collaborate.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/salad/B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8/general/images/salad-quickstart-2.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8&q=85&s=9af42422214e524c1a21ade7c8414d4d" alt="SaladCloud Login Page" width="1626" height="720" data-path="general/images/salad-quickstart-2.png" />

A project acts like a group or a folder to group your resources under. A common example is to create one project for
`production` and another for `development`, ensuring you don't make a change in the wrong environment.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/salad/B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8/general/images/salad-quickstart-3.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8&q=85&s=be6ec335a7497560d42d4fe800c0e532" alt="SaladCloud Login Page" width="1490" height="757" data-path="general/images/salad-quickstart-3.png" />

## Add a Billing Method

Your SaladCloud organization must have a billing method associated with it in order to deploy a container or use any of
the inference endpoints.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/salad/B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8/general/images/salad-add-payment.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=B_utM-6XUMV1Xhv8&q=85&s=1fd73d26a613261964b0cf20e5802609" alt="SaladCloud Login Page" width="1095" height="804" data-path="general/images/salad-add-payment.png" />

Now you have successfully created your SaladCloud account, you can start leverage the power of 10,000s of GPUs!

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