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Crusoe vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Crusoe logo Crusoe

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 Crusoe's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

Crusoe Crusoe
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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

Crusoe Crusoe
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

Crusoe logo Crusoe Pricing Details

Crusoe offers flexible pricing with on-demand, spot, and reserved options for GPU instances. Longer-term commitments (6-month to 3-year) provide cost savings. CPU instances are priced per core with different performance tiers available. Detailed machine specifications are available in their documentation.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Crusoe Crusoe
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $3.90 $3.20 A100 $2.30 $1.09

Billing Options

Crusoe Crusoe
On-DemandSpotReservation
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Crusoe offers 5 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Crusoe Crusoe
H100(3) H200(3) A100(7) L40S(7) MI300X(3)
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 Crusoe and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Crusoe Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Kubernetes
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Crusoe Crusoe
crusoe.ai
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Crusoe Crusoe
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Crusoe Crusoe
2018
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Crusoe Crusoe
5
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Crusoe Crusoe
Decart, MIT, Together.ai, Windsurf, Gridspace
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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