It’s been very busy in the Salad Kitchen these past few months. Just a few weeks ago, we hit a historic high of the most Salad Balance paid out to chefs in a single day. This is on the back of the tremendous work the SaladCloud team has been doing with the launch of our transcription service and the onboarding of several large sets of workloads, including an exciting new use-case doing molecular simulation.
There are many exciting things cooking on the cloud side to keep our network healthy and growing, and in order to continue to grow at our current pace, we’re going to be adjusting our pricing and payout structure. Let’s dig into that.
The Priority Tier System
Recently, a significant portion of the GPU compute market reduced their pricing. This change in prices means Salad must also adjust its pricing to remain competitive. Distributed, on-demand compute running on consumer hardware is still very new and presents significant trade offs over traditional cloud providers; so Salad’s edge and success have always hinged on our price advantage.
We’re approaching these pricing changes through a new priority tier system, where workloads compete for the best nodes based on their tier and therefore their pricing. The high priority tiers will be very close to our current pricing structure and the lower priority tiers will allow the Salad network to keep its price advantage.
Here’s What Salad’s New Pricing Means for You
Keen Chefs may have noticed that some workloads with adjusted pricing have already appeared on the network as we begin testing out this new system. The full rollout of this new pricing structure will happen over the next few days. Keep an eye out on the SaladCloud site for more details.
The end goal of this change is to get more container jobs available for Chefs to keep earning. More customers for Salad means more jobs and more Salad Balance! That being said, we know many of you will have questions around this change. So, our founder and CEO Bob Miles will join our State of Salad stream on Twitch this Friday, September 6 for a chat with the community. Make sure to submit your questions through our Discord or on our subreddit so they make it into the Q&A.
