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Salad is the easiest, most trusted way to share compute resources. Our users can earn rewards in exchange for their idle PC processing power, and for their unused bandwidth shared to our distributed computing network. The Salad Storefront features thousands of unique digital rewards, including monthly Discord Nitro subscriptions, Steam games, PayPal balance, and gift cards from your favorite online retailers. With a full library of games, subscriptions, in-game currencies, and DLC for the biggest online games, our Salad Chef community claims more than 3,000,000 rewards every year. Our recipe is simple. Just download Salad, sign up, and begin earning Salad Balance. We'll take care of the hard parts! The first time you run Salad, our software analyzes your desktop computer to determine what kinds of workloads it can support. Run Salad whenever your PC is idle to put it to work on the most profitable job available. To help everyone make the most from their hardware, Salad can also be configured to detect when your computer is not in use and begin earning automatically. The Salad application dynamically allocates user resources across several supported workload types. From bandwidth sharing to Containerized workloads, it's never been easier to profit from your PC. Through SaladCloud, our menu of computational cuisine includes HPC tasks, AI training, and all sorts of jobs that take hard crunching from the mighty Salad Chefs. By building workload-agnostic infrastructure on top of our performant network, our community will get the chance to help advance human progress—and make serious lettuce doing it. Head to the SaladChefs Discord to find out why more than 40,000 gamers love Salad.
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1 Month and 1 Week on Salad.
Honestly Salad is really cool and fun to get going! Although the original intent was to utilize idle gaming hardware. I setup a CPU cluster made up of old corporate PCs. CPU work doesn't pay as much as GPU work, but I'm earning $16.50 per month after electricity ($20 redemption). It's honestly really cool having a mini data center in my closet! I honestly believe Salad should advertise distributed compute more. To me, my apartment already exists and I don't mind having these nodes running 24/7. No need to build giant data centers and destroy land. I think if we really need all of this compute power, we should be doing more of this! I will say I think Salad should increase their customer prices so they can have higher payouts to us Chef's to help combat the rising energy costs, but I do understand it's all supply and demand. If you have a high idle wattage PC, this probably isn't for you, but if you have a good graphics card (3070+) or efficient CPU rigs (like I do). Then you should absolutely give Salad a try!
Don't just quit after a week. Study the data for 1 month then analyze. Hourly numbers aren't the entire story! I've gotten so many different types of CPU jobs. So far I've identified and recorded 7 different types that all pay different rates and use different amounts of electricity! At the end of one month, run the math and see if you broke even, are net positive, or net negative.
This is my review after 1 Month and 1 Week on Salad. I hope someone finds this helpful!
Steady Earner
Salad provides steady earnings above the cost of Electricity. With Salad, I have the ability to redeem earnings in cash without the hassle of trading depreciating crypto tokens. Except for frequent updates in Salad or Windows this is quite the "Set it and Forget it" operation. Thank You Salad!
TOO EXPENSIVE TO TRANSFERT TO PAYPAL…
TOO EXPENSIVE TO TRANSFERT TO PAYPAL AND VENMO
Fair compensation
First of all, I appreciate the accuracy in job posting and the fair compensation aligned with market demand. I am also pleased with the simplified access to the platform.
Easy to use
Easy to use, would be 5 stars if the scheduling worked a little better. Gotten several amazon gift cards without any trouble.
works as intended
Simply and easy to setup and use.
easy smooth platform to earn a little…
easy smooth platform to earn a little extra
I'm using Salad for almost a year and I…
I'm using Salad for almost a year and I love it!
I’ve been running Salad on my setup for…
I’ve been running Salad on my setup for a while now, and it has easily become my favorite passive compute platform.
The transition toward enterprise AI and container workloads makes a huge difference compared to older mining setups. Getting assigned real AI inference tasks pays noticeably better rates and keeps the hardware consistently utilized without running thermal limits into the ground.
The platform is completely hands-off once configured—it spins up isolated container environments cleanly, tracks earnings transparently, and doesn't get in the way when the machine is needed.
Payouts and redemption options are fast, predictable, and simple to navigate.
If you have a modern GPU with decent VRAM sitting idle while you work or sleep, Salad is genuinely worth running.
Your service destroyed my 5090
Your service destroyed my 5090 & blocked me from talking about it on Discord :D
Works on real hardware
This has been extremely easy to use
This has been extremely easy to use, and has been a great way to make some side cash. Salad has been great with communication and very friendly and open about rates and support. Cashing out is easy and I 100% recommend. That's a lot from someone who doesn't trust most companies. They seem to hold themselves to a higher standard and if there are job openings I may just apply to work for them.
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