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Beam vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Beam logo Beam

  • Pay-per-millisecond billing, only while code is running
  • Sub-second cold starts from memory snapshots
  • No egress or bandwidth fees on any plan
  • Runs in your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
  • Recurring monthly credit on every plan

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • 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

How do Beam's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

Beam Beam
$2.10 / mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 / mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Free egress allowance

Beam Beam
Free and unlimited
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Beam Beam
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Beam Beam
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $1.83 $3.20 A100 $1.36 $1.09 RTX A6000 $0.54 $0.35

Billing Options

Beam Beam
On-DemandCustom
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Beam offers 10 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Beam Beam
H100(2) H200(2) RTX PRO 6000(1) A100(1) L40S(1) B200(2) B300(1) RTX A6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Beam and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Beam Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Beam Beam
www.beam.cloud
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Beam Beam
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Beam Beam
2021
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Beam Beam
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Beam Beam
Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.