Salad vs Verda (formerly Takomo)

The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering

Free / Open-sourceTogether AI is the AI Native Cloud — a full-stack platform for running, fine-tuning and training open-source models. It spans serverless inference APIs, dedicated endpoints, GPU clusters, post-training and storage, all backed by in-house systems research.

Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace

Free / Open-sourceServerless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads

An AI-native cloud built from silicon to API for training, tuning, and serving models

SpecialistOffers extremely cheap serverless model hosting via API, but does not provide raw containerized GPU instances.

Free / Open-sourceRun native ComfyUI in the cloud with zero setup, fast GPUs, and one-click serverless APIs

Free / Open-sourceThe AI cloud built by the creators of PyTorch Lightning

Free / Open-sourceOne cloud for 200+ model APIs, agent sandboxes and GPU compute

Gigawatt-scale AI compute, built and operated end to end

Low-cost cloud GPUs with per-minute instances and per-second sandboxes for AI workloads.

SpecialistScales distributed Ray workloads effortlessly across clusters, but is tailored for heavy data engineering and training.