Salad Technologies

Salad Technologies provides SaladCloud, a distributed cloud service that leverages consumer GPUs for AI/ML inference at scale. SaladCloud offers a fully managed container service with the lowest GPU/CPU prices in the market, starting at $0.02 per hour, which presents significant cost savings compared to traditional cloud providers. The company also offers the Salad Container Engine (SCE), a scalable orchestration engine for containerized applications, and the Salad Gateway Service (SGS), which provides dedicated proxies and high-throughput edge processors in nearly 200 countries. SaladCloud supports Kubernetes through the Virtual Kubelets project, allowing users to deploy Kubernetes pods as container group deployments. The service supports various use cases, including image generation, voice AI, computer vision, data collection, batch processing, and language models. Salad Technologies’ infrastructure includes over 1 million distributed nodes and more than 10,000 consumer GPUs at any time. The company is SOC 2 Type I Compliant, ensuring high standards of security and compliance. SaladCloud’s pricing model is usage-based with no pre-paid contracts or commitments, and it offers the lowest priced transcription service and Stable Diffusion finetuning API in the market. Salad Technologies aims to democratize cloud computing by activating latent consumer GPU resources to create a sustainable and affordable cloud computing platform.