Salad Container Engine (SCE)

Community-Powered Compute

Run containerized workloads on thousands of idle consumer GPUs contributed by suppliers worldwide, without the overhead of managing infrastructure. With unmatched elasticity, low cost, and instant access to powerful hardware, SCE Community is the fastest way to ship GPU workloads at scale.

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Cut compute costs by up to 90%

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Save even more for high-volume GPU use.

More than 10 GPUs
Long running jobs
Committed contracts
GPU pricing

Optimized for High-Volume, Stateless Workloads

Designed for parallelism at scale, SCE Community is ideal for inference and long-running batch workloads. With globally distributed nodes and no minimum commitment, you can deploy fast and scale on demand.

Thousands of highly vetted community-contributed GPUs available on-demand.
Deploy containers with minimal warm-up time.
Support industry standard tooling & Kubernetes workflows.
Fully manage container orchestration on SaladCloud
Secure reliable compute environment on SaladCloud

Fully Managed, Massively Elastic

Salad Container Engine makes deploying GPU containers as simple as pushing a Docker image. Whether you need 10 or 10,000 replicas, Salad handles orchestration, scaling, and teardown for you—no YAML files, no cluster config, just compute.

Bring your own Docker image, no special setup required.
Spin up and tear down container jobs with one API call.
Integrates with popular container registries like AWS, DockerHub, etc.

Efficiency, Affordability & Reach

SCE Community is designed for teams that care about speed-to-deploy and cost-to-run. By leveraging unused GPU cycles from a global network of contributors, Salad delivers massive scale at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud.

Pricing starts at just $0.02/hr per GPU, with no egress or platform fees.
No long-term commitments, minimums, or provisioning delays.
Ideal for startups, researchers, and builders launching GPU workloads today.
Fully manage container orchestration on SaladCloud

Purpose-built for
cloud-native applications

Scale quickly to thousands of GPU instances worldwide without the need to manage VMs or individual instances, all with a simple usage-based price structure.

Reduce budget bloat

Save up to 50% on orchestration services from big box providers, plus discounts on recurring plans.

On-demand elasticity

Scale to 10,000+ nodes on demand using our toolkits, or build a custom K8s integration with our simple API.

Optimized usage fees

Pay for exactly what you need with predictable and transparent usage fees billed down to the minute.

Multicloud compatible

Deploy Salad Container Engine workloads alongside your existing hybrid or multi-cloud configurations.

GPU-Driven Processing

Distribute data batch jobs, HPC workloads, and rendering queues to thousands of 3D-accelerated GPUs.

Compute-Class Flexibility

Choose from budget-friendly consumer GPUs or secure clusters, depending on your workload and compliance needs.