Fluidstack vs Thunder Compute

What's good about each

Fluidstack

Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload

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

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Fluidstack	Thunder Compute	Difference
Block storage	-- Not listed	$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included
Egress	-- Not listed	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 track no GPU listings from Fluidstack. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Fluidstack	Thunder Compute	Difference
H100 4 configs	--	$3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out	Thunder Compute only
A100 4 configs	--	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	Thunder Compute only
RTX A6000 1 config	--	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	Thunder Compute only
L40 4 configs	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	Thunder Compute only

All 4 GPUs on Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Fluidstack	Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Fluidstack	Thunder Compute
GDPR	--	Yes

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	Fluidstack	Thunder Compute
Founded	2017	2024
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	4	1
Example customers	--	Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website	www.fluidstack.io	www.thundercompute.com

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Our data for Fluidstack was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 2, 2026.