Use cases

More inferences per dollar than any other cloud.

SaladCloud fits any GPU-hungry workload that can be containerized and parallelized. Each use case below links to a published benchmark with the model, the GPU, and the math.

Text-to-image · image-to-image

Image generation

5,243 Flux.1-Schnell images per dollar. 3,405 SDXL images per dollar. Civitai serves 10 million images a day on 600+ Salad GPUs.

Image generation →
Speech-to-text · text-to-speech

Voice AI

47,638 minutes transcribed per dollar with Parakeet TDT; up to 6 million words per dollar of TTS with OpenVoice.

Voice AI →
Tagging · detection · segmentation

Computer vision

309,000 images tagged per dollar with RAM++; 50,000 segmented per dollar with SAM; YOLOv8 for 73% less than Azure.

Computer vision →
LLM agents

OpenClaw and coding agents

Flat-rate GPUs instead of per-token bills. One developer cut an OpenClaw news bot's LLM cost by 86%.

OpenClaw →
Data pipelines

Batch processing

1,000,000 hours of audio transcribed for $1,260. Thousands of containers in parallel for up to 90% less than hyperscaler batch.

Batch processing →
Simulation

Molecular dynamics

GROMACS on 30 GPUs at 90%+ savings; OpenMM on 25 consumer GPUs at 95% less. Klyne.ai runs drug-discovery workloads here.

Molecular dynamics →
Edge compute + residential IPs

Data collection

Edge processing and 1M+ unique residential IPs in one platform. One customer cut a $192,700 monthly bill by 53%.

Data collection →
Cryptography

ZK proofs

GPU-accelerated proof generation on thousands of consumer cards at a fraction of data-center prices.

ZK proofs →
LLM inference

Token API

Skip the container. Call Qwen-class open models per token through AI Gateway from $0.06 per million input tokens.

AI Gateway →
Run popular models, or bring your own

Any open model. Any Docker image.

Flux.1Stable Diffusion XLWhisperParakeetOpenVoiceBarkYOLOv8SAMRAM++LlamaQwenMistralGROMACSOpenMMComfyUIvLLMTGIOllama

Start from a recipe or push your own container to Salad Container Engine.

Cut compute costs by up to 90%.

Volume discounts for more than 100 GPUs, long-running jobs, and committed contracts.