Backblaze logo Backblaze vs Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

What's good about each

  • A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
  • Easy migration, S3-compatible API
  • Several data centers in North America and Europe
  • 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 Backblaze Thunder Compute Difference
Block storage -- Not listed $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included
Object storage $6.00 /mo 1 TB -- Not listed
Egress allowance 3x the amount of data stored -- Not listed
Egress $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB 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

Thunder Compute offers 4 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Backblaze. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU Backblaze Thunder Compute Difference
Nvidia logo H100 4 configs -- $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo A100 4 configs -- $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo RTX A6000 1 config -- $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo L40 4 configs -- $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only

Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service Backblaze Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage

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 Backblaze Thunder Compute
Founded 2007 2024
Headquarters USA USA
Locations 4 1
Example customers Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website www.backblaze.com www.thundercompute.com

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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 2, 2026.