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CoreWeave vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

CoreWeave logo CoreWeave

  • Access to latest NVIDIA GPU generations
  • Kubernetes-native cloud platform for easy orchestration
  • Transparent pricing with up to 60% savings on reserved capacity
  • Purpose-built for AI and ML workloads

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 CoreWeave's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

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

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

CoreWeave CoreWeave
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

CoreWeave CoreWeave
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $6.16 $3.20 A100 $2.70 $1.09 L40 $1.25 $0.79

Billing Options

CoreWeave CoreWeave
On-DemandSpotCustom
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

CoreWeave offers 11 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

CoreWeave CoreWeave
H100(2) H200(2) A100(2) RTX PRO 6000(3) B200(2) L40S(2) B300(1) L40(2) GB200(1) GB300(1)
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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 CoreWeave and Thunder Compute offer:

Service CoreWeave Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
CoreWeave CoreWeave
coreweave.com
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
CoreWeave CoreWeave
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
CoreWeave CoreWeave
2017
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
CoreWeave CoreWeave
13
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
CoreWeave CoreWeave
Jane Street, OpenAI, MistralAI, NovelAI
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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