Salad warns SaladCloud price hike lands September 12, current GPU rates hold
What happened
Between the Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026 captures of Salad's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Site added a banner announcing SaladCloud pricing will change on September 12, 2026, linking to a blog post with details. Currently displayed GPU hourly/monthly rates are unchanged as of this capture. Pulse files it as a product change (positioning) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 2, 2026) lists GPU Instances at $0.18 RTX 5080 (16GB VRAM) instance-hour + $0.09 RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) instance-hour, General Purpose Instances at $0.01 General Purpose 2GB / 1 vCPU instance-hour + $0.02 General Purpose 8GB / 4 vCPU instance-hour, CPU-Optimized Instances at $0.02 CPU-Optimized 8GB / 4 vCPU instance-hour + $0.01 CPU-Optimized 2GB / 1 vCPU instance-hour and Memory-Optimized Instances at $0.01 Memory-Optimized 8GB / 1 vCPU instance-hour + $0.05 Memory-Optimized 32GB / 4 vCPU instance-hour.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Salad. Salad has been tracked since 2026-07-05.
In the same window Tray.ai, Scalr, RunPod, Readme and QuickNode also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
“SaladCloud” is the name Salad’s pricing page uses; Pulse files the change under Salad, the company it tracks.
- SaladCloud · PositioningAdded
BeforeNot listed
Afterbanner announcing SaladCloud pricing will change
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaladCloud | Positioning | Not listed | banner announcing SaladCloud pricing will change | Added |
Values as written on Salad's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Salad's pricing page (salad.com) from Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where banner announcing SaladCloud pricing will change now appears.
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Salad, pricing history
Full history- Nov 2, 2026increaseSalad hikes RTX 5090 High-priority GPU rate 20% to $0.60/hr; Lowest tier flat
- Sep 7, 2026packagingSalad warns SaladCloud price hike lands September 12, current GPU rates hold · this change
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Tray.aiNov 2Tray.ai swaps "Talk to sales" for "Sized to your needs" on paid plans
- ScalrNov 2Scalr spells out billable runs: failed runs count, drift detection is free
- RunPodNov 2RunPod raises Serverless GPU prices up to 25%, drops savings claim
- ReadmeNov 2Readme caps free Starter metrics at 7 days, adds Enterprise Ask AI API
- QuickNodeNov 2QuickNode Platform API now lists rate limits by plan, from 20 to 250 RPS
Questions about this change
Did Salad raise prices in September 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: positioning.
What changed on Salad's pricing page between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026?
SaladCloud positioning: Not listed → banner announcing SaladCloud pricing will change, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Salad change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Salad in the 90 days before this one; Salad has been tracked since 2026-07-05.