Cloudflare
vs
Thunder Compute
What's good about each
- Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
- No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
- Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
- One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search
- Per-minute billing, nothing charged while an instance is stopped
- Per-second GPU sandboxes, each its own Firecracker microVM
- 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 | Cloudflare | Thunder Compute | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $21.90 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included | |
| Object storage | $15.81 /mo 1 TB (R2 Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $82.50 /mo 25M invocations, 150 ms CPU time | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free for most services | 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 don't currently list GPU prices for Cloudflare.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Cloudflare | Thunder Compute |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | -- |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Enterprise only | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Level 1, some products | -- |
| FedRAMP | High, Cloudflare for Government | -- |
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 | Cloudflare | Thunder Compute |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 312 | -- |
| Example customers | Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk | NYU Langone Health, MIT, ETH Zürich, UC Berkeley, Theseus, Conduit, InstaLILY |
| Website | cloudflare.com | www.thundercompute.com |
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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 22, 2026.