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- Free allowance
- No free trial; pay-as-you-go with no minimum commitment.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaThere is no free lane at all, so the binding constraint is the first dollar: a user must fund a prepaid balance before any container runs.
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free trial; pay-as-you-go with no minimum commitment. Billing is per second while an instance is running. Prices are per GPU-hour by priority tier (High, Medium, Low, Lowest), with vCPU and RAM included: RTX 4090 24 GB USD 0.440 High, 0.347 Medium, 0.253 Low, 0.160 Lowest. Classes below the table start at USD 0.015 per GPU-hour at Lowest priority. Medium and Low tiers can be preempted, with a minimum run before reallocation of roughly 30 minutes. The page lists no H100, A100, L40S or L4. unit none; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) There is no free lane at all, so the binding constraint is the first dollar: a user must fund a prepaid balance before any container runs. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None without a first payment. USD 0.015/h is the cheapest per-hour GPU figure found in this class, so it is the right target once any budget exists. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Salad's USD 0.015/h is the lowest headline GPU rate in the whole class and it is a genuine consumer-GPU network, but the free door is closed. The SSAP grant (USD 5k-10k) is recorded here as a fails-identity door inside a paid-only record: it needs a company, not a person. |
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Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | salad.com/pricing/ | quoted: 'Is there a free trial? No.' and GPUs from USD 0.015 per hour billed per second |
| 2026-10-22 | buildaicurrent.com/credits/salad-free-credits/ | independent check dated 2026-09-18 reaches the same conclusion against the official pricing and get-started pages, and notes the withdrawn 5-audio-hour transcription trial |
| 2026-10-22 | blog.salad.com/salad-gpu-cloud-ssap/ | the only free credit Salad advertises is USD 5k-10k for 'qualifying companies' through its Solutions Architect Program, a sales-gated door not available to an individual |
| 2026-11-03 | salad.com/pricing/ | the RTX 4090 24 GB is priced at USD 0.440, 0.347, 0.253 and 0.160 per GPU-hour on the High, Medium, Low and Lowest tiers |
| 2026-11-03 | salad.com/pricing/ | billing is per second while an instance runs |
| 2026-11-03 | salad.com/pricing/ | the USD 0.015 per GPU-hour headline applies to classes outside the table at Lowest priority |
| 2026-11-03 | salad.com/pricing/ | there is no free trial and no minimum commitment |
More fields 1
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field