Otium
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A Salad alternative that pays your own wallet
Both put your idle computer to work and pay you for it. Salad credits reward points to a Salad account, which you spend in its store on PayPal cash, gift cards, games or crypto. Otium has the mining pool pay your own wallet directly, with no account.
| Otium | Salad | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your earnings go | Straight to your own wallet address, paid by the pool. Otium never holds your money. | Reward points in your Salad Balance. Salad's terms say they have no cash value and remain Salad's property until you spend them. |
| What you're paid in | Your choice: USDT, BTC, LTC, BNB, SOL, TRX, ETH or XMR. | Whatever you pick in the Salad Storefront: PayPal cash (in supported countries), RENDER on Solana, prepaid cards, gift cards or games. |
| When you're paid | Daily by unMineable once you reach its minimum (e.g. 1.5 USDT). In the US, by MoneroOcean in Monero. | Points should reach your balance within five business days. Unspent points may expire after 12 months without earning. |
| Fees | Otium's 2% of mining time, plus the mining software's and the pool's own fees, all listed on the front page. | No fee is listed. Salad buys rewards at discount or wholesale prices, and its margin is in what you pay for them. |
| Account and ID | No account and no ID: you paste a wallet address. An email is optional. | An account with an email, age 18 or over. Salad may ask you to verify your account or give more information before you redeem. |
| Computers | Windows, macOS and Linux (macOS and Linux in beta). | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Its support pages mention beta Linux support; no Mac. |
| When it runs | Only while you're away, by default; it stops within a second when you're back, and waits when electricity would cost more than mining earns. | When you start it, or on its own after 10 minutes without mouse or keyboard use (you can change the delay). |
| What your computer does | Mines with your graphics card and processor, and can share unused internet bandwidth if you choose. | AI and other jobs for Salad's customers on your graphics card or processor, bandwidth sharing in 31 countries, and mining when there are no jobs. |
Salad's details are from its own pages, checked on 2 November 2026, and can change. See Sources below.
Where Salad is the better choice
Salad pays in PayPal cash, gift cards or games if you'd rather not use crypto, sells your graphics card's time to AI companies, and publishes hourly earning rates for each card.
Sources
- Salad: download and how it works
- Salad: terms for Chefs
- Salad: business model
- Salad: redeeming RENDER
- Salad: macOS and Linux
- Salad: Auto Start
- Salad: bandwidth sharing jobs
- Salad: crypto mining jobs
- Salad: earning rates
Otium isn't affiliated with Salad. Spotted something out of date? Write to contact@otium.lol.