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Cerebrium vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Cerebrium logo Cerebrium

  • Per-second billing, with no charge for idle GPUs
  • Cold starts of 2-4 seconds via memory and GPU snapshots
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 certified
  • Ten GPU types, from T4 to B200
  • Region pinning for data residency, on US and EU capacity

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 Cerebrium's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

VM Small

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$22.73 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (CPU only)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Medium

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$113.94 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPU only)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Large

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$227.89 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU only)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Block Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$5.00 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB included
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $3.40 $3.20 A100 $2.00 $1.09

Billing Options

Cerebrium Cerebrium
On-Demand
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Cerebrium offers 9 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
H100(4) H200(4) RTX PRO 6000(4) A100(8) L40S(4) B200(4) L4(4) T4(4) A10(4)
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 Cerebrium and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Cerebrium Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Cerebrium Cerebrium
www.cerebrium.ai
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Cerebrium Cerebrium
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cerebrium Cerebrium
2021
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Cerebrium Cerebrium
3
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Cerebrium Cerebrium
Tavus, Deepgram, Resemble AI
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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