Our mission is to democratize cloud computing
by utilizing latent consumer resources to power a sustainable, affordable, environmentally friendly cloud for everyone.
188
Countries with Nodes
1.3M
Worldwide User Nodes
12,873
Years of Compute
$681K
Paid Out in 2023
Crypto Emerges
Salad is Born
On March 27, 2018, Salad is incorporated in the USA.
Seed Investment
Salad raises its principal institutional investment from Utah local Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures.
Alpha Release
Salad's alpha release hits the "Download" button.
100 Concurrent Users
The Kitchen supports 100 simultaneous network connections for the first time.
Supercomputer Status
Salad amasses enough horsepower to outgun Cray's 2010s Jaguar supercomputer.
MVP Release
Salad launches dynamic earnings and enhanced stability.
Seed Plus Investment
Salad raises an additional $3.2mm in venture captial.
1,000+ Users Per Day
More than 1,000 new Chefs join the Salad Kitchen daily.
Salad Raises $17M in Series A
Co-lead by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures.
Salad Launches 1.0
The new widget features GPU/CPU dual mining, earning projections, dynamic earnings monitoring, smart workload selection, and instant error troubleshooting.
Bandwidth Sharing
Chefs will have the chance to act as P2P VPN relay nodes, earning extra monthly Salad Balance for spare bandwidth.
New Rewards
Through partnerships and API integrations, we'll add even more subscriptions, games, and gift cards to the Salad Storefront.
Salad Container Engine (Beta)
Limited beta providing access to thousands of GPU-powered containers on the world's most affordable fully managed orchestration platform.
Trust System
The most dependable Salad Chefs will unlock even more profitable workloads.
SaladPay MVP Release
The SaladPay payment gateway and SDK will allow Chefs to spend Balance web-wide and directly in-game.
Storage Sharing
As the Kitchen expands to support P2P storage networks, Chefs will be able to share capacity to earn Salad Balance.
Virtual Machines
Salad will programmatically spin up virtual machines to isolate workloads and standardize the network.
P2P Cloud Gaming
The future of gaming and streaming is peer-to-peer—and powered by Chefs!
AI Workloads
To feed an insatiable hunger for resources, Chefs will be able to opt in for advanced, artificial intelligence workloads.
How Salad’s Community Cloud Works
Every day, 1000s of users share their resources on SaladCloud for rewards while 100s of businesses run workloads in a secure, affordable & sustainable manner.
Our Resources
The Salad desktop application helps gamers and everyday webizens share latent compute resources from idle PCs—such as processing cycles, storage, and bandwidth—to earn meaningful rewards for powering various computing workloads deployed on the SaladCloud platform.With over 100,000 monthly active Salad Chefs, our decentralized cloud infrastructure is prepped to nourish innovation, provide affordable container orchestration, and make sure everyone gets a helping of a better web.
Our Cloud
SaladCloud offers a fully managed container service with the lowest GPU/CPU prices anywhere in the market. Unlike the big cloud monopolies, our distributed cloud is built by the people, for the people.While the GPU supply shortage, expensive cloud bills & the environmental impacts of big data centers continue rising, the compute resources for most of today’s applications already exists - a GPU in every gaming PC. SaladCloud activates this resource, bringing you reliable, affordable compute hardware.
Why Salad
A Compute Crisis
Everywhere you look, big ideas are going hungry. Titans of entertainment are chasing metaverses, but data centers can’t approximate their wildest dreams. Infinite pastimes require ubiquitous infrastructure.
Technological advancement is relegated to the biggest budgets. Steep prices keep data scientists and researchers from real experimentation. Centralized providers may offer reduced rates for reserved utilization—but why should innovation be constrained by predictability? Without a more affordable, more plentiful cloud, the future will belong to the same people as the present. SaladCloud facilitates innovation with performant, available, and entirely people-powered cloud services. Need a champion? We've got thousands.
Community Cloud
Commonly held ideas all start as experiments.By 2030, consumer hardware will overtake data centers as the most reliable and renewable source of elastic compute.
The proof is in the PC. Hardware manufacturers have begun to optimize consumer-grade processing units to perform multi-threaded processes and support virtual compute environments. That's the recipe for community cloud.SaladCloud is a fully people-powered alternative to conventional cloud. Our infrastructure offers high availability, performance, and scalable container solutions for a fraction of the cost. The Salad network currently welcomes 100,000 active nodes per month - and each represents a voluntary contributor to the future of cloud computing.
The Salad Recipe
Latent compute is our secret ingredient. Everyday webizens use Salad to share resources from their idle PCs—like processing cycles, storage, or bandwidth—to power SaladCloud infrastructure in exchange for digital rewards.
By providing powerful incentives to join, Salad has fast become the world's largest decentralized supercomputer. Since founding our network in 2018, Salad Chefs have contributed over 10,000 years of compute processing to power transaction validation and other baseline compute workloads. Salad Container Engine uses a proprietary trust rating system to index node performance, forecast availability, and select the optimal hardware cohort for deployment.
For All Appetites
There's no task too great for our infinite Kitchen.
Our simplified developer tools and SaladCloud API make it possible to deploy on SCE alone or integrate with a multicloud configuration. With the right requirements inputs, you could train massive AI models, compile data synthesis workloads, or distribute video rendering tasks. Salad Container Engine orchestrates container workloads across a global network of decentralized nodes in mere minutes - for half the cost. To get started, please contact our sales team through the form on our homepage.
How Salad Helps
Salad is committed to nourishing the world we share.
In order to offset the environmental impact of our network activities, Salad Technologies makes yearly contributions to charities like #TeamTrees and 1% for the Planet. Salad Chefs share thousands in small donations to environmental charities featured on our community platform, using value earned from our network. The Salad Kitchen has aided disaster relief, sponsored wildlife rescue efforts, and provided indispensable support for global health initiatives - all while offsetting tons of carbon emissions to fight the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
Benefits
Unlimited Vacation
Our employees are real people with real lives. That’s why we encourage everyone to take time to prioritize family, indulge in favorite pastimes, or decompress on a well-earned unplug—without checking those pesky emails.
Company Computer
We outfit every new hire with a laptop or desktop computer, along with any software they'll need to do their best work. There's no spyware pre-installed, but you may need to wipe Bob's old Age of Empires II saves.
75% Health Premiums
We cover 75% of all health insurance premiums for our employees and their dependents—whether or not they elect the company health plan. Salad is healthy, after all.
$500 WFH Budget
Salad employees can expense up to $500 in home office upgrades. Whether you need a new office chair, a spiffier webcam, or a reticulated spline, we'll help you get what you need to build out your corner of the Salad Kitchen.