AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Salad, a distributed cloud for AI (like Airbnb for GPUs)
Hey HN! Bob here, Founder and CEO of Salad (www.salad.com), a distributed cloud for AI inference at scale. *Why Salad?* Because there’s 400 Million consumer GPUs in the world (~100 Million AI-enabled RTX GPUS) and most of them lie unused for 18-22 hrs a day. These consumer GPUs offer similar or better cost-performance than high-end AI GPUs for many AI/ML use cases (Speech-to-text, batch jobs, text-to-image, computer vision to name a few). With Salad, we have activated this latent compute in everyday PCs to power AI/ML workloads. *How big is our network?* More than 1,900,000…
Salad is a distributed cloud platform that connects consumer GPUs from personal computers to AI companies needing inference compute power. It leverages the estimated 400 million idle consumer GPUs worldwide—most unused… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Salad, a distributed cloud for AI (like Airbnb for GPUs) launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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General Compute▲315AI models that run on an inference cloud optimized for speed
May 2026 · generalcompute.com · its alternatives →
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Salad ▲10AI models, apps, and team collaborating in one conversation.
Aug 2026 · salad.ink · its alternatives →
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Hey folks! We're Alex and Evan, and we're working on putting together a 512 H100 compute cluster for startups and researchers to train large generative models on. - it runs at the lowest possible margins (<$2.00/hr per H100) - designed for bursty training runs, so you can take say 128 H100s for a week - you don’t need to commit to multiple years of compute or pay for a year upfront Big labs like OpenAI and Deepmind have big clusters that support this kind of bursty allocation for their researchers, but startups so far have had to get very small clusters on very long term contracts, wait…
2023 · sfcompute.org · its alternatives →
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Host LLMs across devices sharing GPU to make your AI go brrr
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cerebrium▲300If you haven’t noticed, GPUs are scarce right now. The global boom in inference has demand growing faster than supply can keep up, and at Cerebrium ...
2024 · cerebrium.ai · its alternatives →
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Netmind Power▲272Hi HN, We just opened public access to Qwen3‑Coder‑480B‑A35B‑Instruct via a REST/SDK API. Why it might be interesting: - Fully open-source (Apache‑2.0): https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder - 480B params (35B active MoE), long context up to 1M tokens with YaRN - Matches Claude Sonnet/GPT‑4o on SWE-Bench Verified (81.6%) - Free tier: 100K tokens/month
2023 · netmind.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core Why? Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds. We thought to…
2022 · tensordock.com · its alternatives →
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Accelerating open machine learning research with Cloud TPUs
2017 · sites.research.google · its alternatives →
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Greetings HN! This is Doruk from Oblivus, and I'm excited to announce the launch of our platform, Oblivus Cloud. After more than a year of beta testing, we're excited to offer you a platform where you can deploy affordable and scalable GPU virtual machines in as little as 30 seconds! https://oblivus.com/cloud - What sets Oblivus Cloud apart? At the start of our journey, we had two primary goals in mind: to democratize High-Performance Computing and make it as straightforward as possible. We understand that maintaining GPU servers through major cloud service providers can be…
2023 · oblivus.com · its alternatives →
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Ocean Orchestrator ▲139Run AI jobs from your IDE with a one-click workflow
Mar 2026 · oncompute.ai · its alternatives →
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Deploy AI apps instantly with a single shot
2025 · omegacloud.ai · its alternatives →
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Thank you for checking out the product! This product is great for individual makers, teams, and enterprises to create content, code, images, and more as an alternative to ChatGPT. We offer access to the latest and greatest AI models, complete data privacy ensured, and support a huge (32k, 128k, 200k) context window for all of our plans. Compared to ChatGPT, who only offers 32k context window until you upgrade to enterprise, we offer A huge 4x upgrade to 128k for GPT4 and 200k for Claude. This allows all of our plans to ask questions against a huge 500 page documents or a set of documents. We…
2025 · parallellabs.app · its alternatives →
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Self-host AI/ML with the world's cheapest GPU cloud
2025 · thundercompute.com · its alternatives →
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RunInfra▲156Describe the AI model you need and get an optimized AI
Jul 2026 · runinfra.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi, This is Dan and Genevieve from Burstable AI. We've iterated and made a 45 degree pivot, taking what we learned from developing burst (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191459) to introduce a cloud service that provides access to a GPU-enabled machine using Jupyterlab to provide notebooks, shell access, and a code/text editor. GPU access is measured and the first 50 hours are free. This is *not* a platform to do crypto mining or run weeks of model training for free. We are focused on the R & D phase of modern AI/ML, where developers/scientists are…
2022 · cloudburst.host · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we are Ed, Zach, and Ronald, creators of Shadeform (https://www.shadeform.ai/), a GPU marketplace to see live availability and prices across the GPU market, as well as to deploy and reserve on-demand instances. We have aggregated 8+ GPU providers into a single platform and API, so you can easily provision instances like A100s and H100s where they are available. From our experience working at AWS and Azure, we believe that cloud could evolve from all-encompassing hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to specialized clouds for high-performance use cases. After the launch of…
2023 · shadeform.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN - I’m Jeff, co-founder of Chroma. In December of 2022, I was scrolling Twitter in the wee-hours of the morning holding my then-newborn daughter. ChatGPT had launched, and we were all figuring out what this technology was and how to make it useful. Developers were using retrieval to bring their data to the models - and so I DM’d every person who had tweeted about “embeddings” in the entire month of December. (it was only 120 people!) I saw then how AI was going to need to search to all the world’s information to build useful and reliable applications. Anton Troynikov and I started…
2025 · trychroma.com · its alternatives →
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DataMacaw▲67Train and run your AI models easily at low cost in the cloud
2022 · aws.amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Inference hosting for AI teams who ship fast and scale faster.
2022 · banana.dev · its alternatives →
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