Salad Technologies

Salad Technologies is an orchestration cloud company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. It builds infrastructure that aggregates idle consumer GPU resources into a distributed computing network, offering cloud GPU capacity at up to 90% lower cost than traditional hyperscalers. Its flagship product, SaladCloud, draws on more than 16,000 daily active GPUs across over 190 countries and thousands of network locations.

For engineers working on algorithms and machine learning systems, the company's product stack spans several layers of the inference and orchestration problem. The Container Engine schedules, monitors, and fails over Docker workloads across heterogeneous consumer hardware. The AI Gateway exposes OpenAI-compatible LLM inference endpoints served on the distributed network, and a Transcription API delivers speech-to-text services through the same platform. Salad Dedicated offers reserved bare metal capacity for customers requiring guaranteed resources.

Technical work at the company touches distributed computing, GPU orchestration, container scheduling, bare metal provisioning and peer-to-peer consumer hardware networks. The underlying model is open: anyone with compatible hardware can contribute resources to the network and benefit from it. The company frames its approach as a sustainability measure, exploiting existing idle hardware rather than constructing new data centres, and as a means of widening access to affordable GPU compute.