Salad hikes RTX 5090 High-priority GPU rate 20% to $0.60/hr; Lowest tier flat
What happened
Between the Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026 captures of Salad's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Per-second GPU prices increased for High, Medium, and Low priority tiers across most RTX GPU classes effective Nov 1, 2026 (e.g. RTX 5090 High $0.500→$0.600/hr-equiv, Medium $0.417→$0.483, Low $0.333→$0.367); Lowest priority price is unchanged. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price increase) with an upward direction. The current page 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.
It lands 56 days after Salad's previous change, "Salad warns SaladCloud price hike lands September 12, current GPU rates hold" (Sep 7, 2026). 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.
- Per-second GPU · Price+20%$0.500$0.600/hr
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-second GPU | Price | $0.500 | $0.600/hr | +20% |
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 Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where per-second gpu price reads $0.500 and then $0.600/hr.
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Salad, the last 90 days
Full history- Nov 2, 2026increaseSalad hikes RTX 5090 High-priority GPU rate 20% to $0.60/hr; Lowest tier flat · this change
- Sep 7, 2026packagingSalad warns SaladCloud price hike lands September 12, current GPU rates hold
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 November 2026?
Yes. Pulse captured Salad's pricing page on Oct 26, 2026 and again on Nov 2, 2026 and recorded 1 price increase: Per-second GPU: $0.500 → $0.600/hr (+20%).
What changed on Salad's pricing page between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026?
Per-second GPU price: $0.500 → $0.600/hr (+20%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Salad change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Salad in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Salad warns SaladCloud price hike lands September 12, current GPU rates hold" on Sep 7, 2026; Salad has been tracked since 2026-07-05.