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Cirrascale vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Cirrascale logo Cirrascale

  • Multiple GPU types (NVIDIA, AMD, Cerebras, Qualcomm, SambaNova)
  • Reservation pricing with 1 to 12-month terms
  • High-speed networking (up to 3200Gb per server)
  • Offers object storage and managed inference

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 Cirrascale's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

Cirrascale Cirrascale
$20.00 /mo 100 GB (NVMe storage)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Object Storage

Cirrascale Cirrascale
$40.00 /mo 1 TB, zero bandwidth fees
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cirrascale Cirrascale
Free and unlimited
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Cirrascale Cirrascale
Reserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Custom
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

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

Cirrascale Cirrascale
H100(4) H200(4) A100(12) B200(4) RTX A6000(4) A4000(4) A5000(4) MI300X(4) MI455X(1) MI250(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 Cirrascale and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Cirrascale Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Cirrascale Cirrascale
www.cirrascale.com
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Cirrascale Cirrascale
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cirrascale Cirrascale
2010
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Cirrascale Cirrascale
12
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Cirrascale Cirrascale
--
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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