Salad has really helped me through the past 7 years , I have Started salad 2 years before I started uni, and now I have graduated... how time have passed.
I first applied for being a language moderator for the arabic channel, didn't think much of it at the time, but when I got it I was so excited and kept up the good work and at that time there was a bit of shortage of mods and lots of trouble makers, so I was selected and promoted as a jr mod within 2 months of being a language mod.

Right after then the crypto exploded and my old rtx 2060 used to get 3-4 dollars a day , not even mentioning the 2x bonuses from the Salad pass (yes it used to be a thing) .

Salad helped me have a stable income at the time because the economy at my home town was getting much worse so being a mod was basically a full time job for me. I got a new phone, upgraded my cpu from ryzen 5 2600 to ryzen 5 5600x, and latest thing for me was saving up for the rtx 5070. and man am I happy to get it.

But all great things has to end, after getting promoted to full moderator for a year things started to dial down on the server and I was swamped by bad grades. So I decided to focus on uni from otherwise I would have dropped out. And it hugely affected my availability on the server leading to my demise as a mod.

I am really happy with the times I have spent on here and I don't regret a second of it.

The Setup & Stats

GPU: RTX 3060 12gb

Daily Earnings: ~$0.80 - $1.60 / day(varies depending on power availability)

Time Chopping: ~18 Months (10,000+ total chopping hours)

Profitability Tracking: I use Zabbix to monitor my system's real-time electricity consumption, allowing me to accurately track power costs against earnings and calculate my true net profit margin.

My story:

I first discovered Salad about 18 months ago through a tech YouTuber I’ve followed for a long time. At first, I just wanted to see if my PC could actually generate passive value, but I quickly realized staying consistent would be a challenge.

Living in a rural village in India, I deal with frequent power cuts and internet dropouts almost daily. Achieving high uptime under these conditions takes serious persistence—I have to constantly manage power availability, stay on top of connection resets, and keep my rig running whenever grid conditions allow.

Despite all the infrastructure hurdles, I kept chopping away and officially passed 10,000+ hours of runtime! Early on, I made one $5 test withdrawal to confirm that cashing out worked properly. Ever since then, I've been holding onto all my earnings in my Salad balance until I save enough to buy a decent GPU.

What I Expected vs. What Happened:

Expected: Frequent downtime meant I thought I'd barely make progress or give up early.

Reality: Small, steady earnings stack up over time faster than you think, even with daily power cuts.

Advice for New Chefs:

Don't get discouraged if your setup isn't running 24/7 or if you face local disruptions. Consistency over months matters way more than a perfect single day. Set a long-term goal and let your balance stack up quietly in the background!

(CHOPPING SINCE 2021)

my history with salad

TLDR: discovered salad from a tech content creator one day in 2021, got invested, joined salad, ran it for a while, then quitted it since i got concerned about temps, then rejoined but crypto started dying, then earnings shot up with the container beta, then earnings plummeted to less than a cent per day, then shot back up again after getting sgs, then plummeted again. Became a tester for a new sgs workload, and now I'm earning ~$1.2 per day more or less, consistently, and I'm happy with it.

It was on a Friday evening on June 18, 2021 (hard to believe it's been five years already); I was scrolling TikTok and stumbled across a video from a tech content creator, "tarantech". I was skeptical, but convinced by the rough words of "making money by doing nothing", so I went on getsalad.io >!(that was the old download link; now it redirects to the new one)!<, and gave Salad a shot on my first-ever laptop with a GTX 1650 Ti. During this time, Salad was in its alpha phase (0.5.5) and was crypto-mining only. I can't recall exactly how much I earned during that time, but I remember it was a damn lot for a 50-watt 1650ti, and mining was super profitable at that time. I ran Salad 24/7 and let the mini stopwatch under the "START" button climb and climb (back when that existed. I kinda miss that gimmick lol). It was so profitable that I even ran Salad in the background, earning as I played Roblox. >!(You can't do that anymore today btw. Don't try it.)!<

Before I joined Salad, I would use these scammy, sketchy offerwall sites to get "free robux". They sucked, barely worked, took too much effort. I stopped using those sites after joining Salad, since my 50-watt 1650ti was the one earning me Robux now, which led to my first ever redemption on August 1, 2021: A $10 Roblox gift card, without me doing anything. Salad was everything I needed to fulfill my "free robux" wish: effortless, easy, safe, reputable, reliable.

After a while of using Salad, I, for whatever reason, got concerned about my GPU temperatures, even though they were perfectly fine, and decided to "quit Salad". I then rejoined, but I was too late: Cryptomining started becoming unprofitable. In mid 2022, Earnings went further down, as ETH was dying out. I still ran Salad, but not as consistently since there was no incentive to.

Salad then decided to shift their business model in October 2022 and released what was called by the senior chefs a "secret workload that pays $1 a day", which then wasn't so secret anymore when the download link in the state of salad contagiously spread to everyone and was then revealed to be a "container beta" lol. I downloaded it on my first-ever laptop and an old HP laptop. From there, I have earned the most Salad balance I have ever earned consistently: $1 per day x 2 machines, totaling $2/day for months, with zero resource usage. I earned over $200 just from this alone lol. Additionally, not too long after, I got Bandwidth sharing (sgs-client) to work for the first time in several months, so that gave me an even bigger boost.

Then came Q1-Q3 of 2023, when my earnings decided to go from $2 a day to less than a fraction of a cent per day. During this time, Salad gradually rolled out lower-paying containers, which include: $0.75/day, $0.5/day, $0.25/day, and $0.10/day. Over time, the CPU container was coming to a full, non-beta release. My earnings were still okay, but way weaker than before. Salad also, at this time, removed CPU mining because there were "enough CPU containers to go around for everyone", however, that did not play out well: CPU container demand, not too long after, plummeted to the core. My earnings were at record lows now, and just as I thought it couldn't get lower, my sgs-client disappeared for months, and Salad was starting to put less priority into their mining workloads, and as a result, my earnings plummeted to less than a cent per day. GPU containers were also released, but my 1650ti stood no chance at getting any demand.

With CPU mining removed, no GPU containers, GPU mining selecting a bad algorithm due to less outlook on these workloads, no sgs-client, and terrible 10-cent CPU containers that lasted no more than a few hours or even seconds at most, I decided to mine externally and manually to Salad balance. Even then, mining was basically dead long ago, so earnings stayed low for a while.

Q4 2023 came around, and my earnings decided to start climbing back up again. I got sgs-client back after months without it, and that would carry my salad earnings up to today. During this time, I also switched from my old, terrible ISP, to a new ISP with fiber. Bandwidth sharing earnings increased hugely with 500mbps, and I also earned a record high of $2.60 in December 2023.

Earnings would stay like this for a while until bandwidth sharing in the US started to deteriorate: the 10 cent static pay on the first-ever US gateway, Daffodil, was removed, and traffic started getting weaker towards 2024. Throughout 24-25, dead gateways with zero traffic completely flooded the US bandwidth sharing system (which unfortunately still resides today).

Then around the end of 2025, a new sgs customer in the US started testing their gateway, and I volunteered to be a part of the closed testing. It has two gateways that pay 48 cents per day.

Today, I still run those two testing gateways (hopefully they become successful), along with two more US gateways that are active, giving me ~$1.20 more or less per day. CPU containers are also a lot more reliable now, so in some cases, more. Electricity usage is super low at around 10ish cents per day more or less (i just guess it based off a constant 50w draw total lol). I now have almost 1000 dollars of lifetime balance racked up, and I mainly just get the Salad balance into my bank account now via paypal.

what'd i tell a new chef lol:

If you live in a bandwidth-supported country with good enough demand and a little bit of luck, you do not need a good computer to earn. Salads bandwidth sharing (despite there definitely being things in need of a reform, such as dead gateways), is still the best and safest option out there. Not in an "advertising Salad" way, but these other apps that offer bandwidth sharing SUCK (coming from experience), and no other app that offers bandwidth sharing except Salad meets all the criteria for being safe, a non-pay-per-time model, non-abusive, and strong earnings (depending on the gateway but in general), with PayPal transfers.

Running a Intel i9 12900k, 128GB DDR5 and Asus TUF RTX 4090 in idle for a couple of years I stumbled upon Salad.com some months ago thinking "eh, what's the worst that can happen?".

Almost 3 months later it has payed 4 games on Steam, some bills, and latest an Arctic Freezer Pro III 360. Not at all what I was expected when I started. Hitting about 4-5$ a day, 20-25$ per week, 100-105$ A MONTH!!!

Positively surprised about the outcome so far, and sad that I did not get started earlier.

GPU : RTX5070

$3.456/day

6,774 hours chopping

I have been using Salad for a long time and have gained a variety of experiences.

While there are occasional quiet periods, there are also times that feel like peak seasons.

I have tried alternatives like Clore during slower periods, but I found that Salad’s appeal lies in the ease of cashing out earnings and the low barrier to entry.

Also, as the image shows, there is no strict requirement for high VRAM; if there is demand, you can still accept high-paying jobs.

For these reasons, I have continued to use Salad to this day.

I game on my pc for about 7 hours per week. The downtime is enough to get decent container jobs while not gaming. Total electricity cost has been about $500 (varying electricity rates between $0.00 - $0.10 / kwh)

I have nearly paid off the cost of my entire PC because of Salad. Bought my PC in 2023.

In a nutshell, Salad has given me an almost-free PC to play video games with. 'Nuff said.

thank you salad!

So almost 3 years ago I downloaded salad for i think the most common reason people usually download salad for ig is TO GET REAL MINECRAFT JAVA. I did not had my own money and I didnt wanted to ask my parents for a game to purchase so I was like always searching "how to get minecraft free" on yt and ended up finding salad.

My plan was that i will run it for like 3-4 months, reach 24$ ( at that time cost of minecraft was 23.99$ , I still remember ) , buy minecraft, and then just delete it. And I did buy it and deleted it too, but I was not finished with my online purchases yet

Weeks later , I wanted to buy a rank so bad in the hypixel server of mc which is like 10$ so i had to install it again and I kept it running in the background and it kept earning. As we know that keeping laptop in sleep mode disables salad and windows laptop goes to sleep when u close the lid ,but there is an option to turn this feature off in settings , I didnt knew this at that time and my mom always used to tell me that i should not keep my laptop open all night , so what I used to do is that i used to make a ball from handkerchief and stuff it inside in a way that the laptop would look like its closed but it was on and then i used to put the laptop delicately inside my laptop bag and go to sleep keeping salad on for chopping lol. Though this account is my 3rd account created 2 years ago for salad as the other 2 accounts i had was one for school and other one was for games , so i contacted a mod and made sure both the accounts are closed ( as its against the tos ) so that i can make a new salad account only for salad.

As of now i earn about 50-70 cents a day which is good for me , though some random days i go job less as well but its part of the thing , I most of the time redeem amazon balances to buy something irl or master cards to buy stuff online like games or anything. Salad to me is almost like an app which gives 10-15$ pocket money every month for me to spend on things i like , though i dont buy things often as i like to save my balance for future aswell.

Its been 3 years now and its still on my pc with 2308 chopping hours as shown in the picture above . Sounds crazy as I came here just to get one block game and now whenever my friends say " damn how u got the money to buy that" , i always tell them about salad and recommend them to use it too and what I will tell to new chefs is first of all ITS NOT A VIRUS or anything harmful for yr pc , that is all MYTH , its just an app which uses yr pc parts / internet (like games use) to earn u some money$$$$ , also u guys can join salad discord server as well if got any doubts , the community managers are superb there and very helpful too.

This is my short story on how i started using salad , how am i doing currently and what ill tell to new chefs about salad. :)

I have a rig given to me by a friend and I have almost no need for since I game on a steam deck but it’s has what’s listed below and I would like to make a passive income nothing crazy maybe gas money at the end of the month or buy a ¢0.50 taco a Jack in the box. Is this still viable or should I scrap it instead ??

AMD Ryzen 3 3200g
RX570 4gb
16 gb of RAM
1tb HDD