AceCloud logo AceCloud vs Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

What's good about each

  • Good range of high-performance NVIDIA GPUs
  • On-demand billing with instance hibernation to optimize savings
  • Operates 10+ data centers globally including locations in India and USA
  • Offers 24/7 support with 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Free credits for new users (₹20,000/$200 for 30 days)
  • RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100, 1 to 8 GPUs
  • Per-minute billing, charged only while an instance runs
  • One-click VS Code and Cursor connections
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • 100 GB persistent disk per GPU, no egress fees

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service AceCloud Thunder Compute Difference
Small VM $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM (C3a.medium) -- Not listed
Medium VM $60.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (C3a.xlarge) -- Not listed
Large VM $119.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (C3a.2xlarge) -- Not listed
Block storage $9.00 /mo 100 GB $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included 58% cheaper on AceCloud
Object storage $10.24 /mo 1 TB -- Not listed
PostgreSQL $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) -- Not listed
Redis $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) -- Not listed
Load balancer $16.00 /mo -- Not listed
Egress -- Not listed Free and unlimited

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

AceCloud offers 9 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU AceCloud Thunder Compute Difference
Nvidia logo H100 12 configs · 4 configs $3.31 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out Different terms
Nvidia logo A100 9 configs · 4 configs $1.65 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand Different terms
Nvidia logo RTX A6000 11 configs · 1 config $1.16 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand 70% cheaper on Thunder Compute
Nvidia logo RTX PRO 6000 21 configs $2.00 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo H200 18 configs $3.66 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo L40S 20 configs $1.37 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada 9 configs $1.04 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo L4 15 configs $0.60 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo A30 12 configs $0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) -- AceCloud only
Nvidia logo L40 4 configs -- $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only

AceCloud bills on-demand and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact AceCloud Thunder Compute
Founded 2010 2024
Headquarters India USA
Locations 3 1
Example customers Spherum, IIT Madras, Inflolabs, VjJTechnologies Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website acecloud.ai www.thundercompute.com

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Our data for AceCloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 2, 2026.