What's good about...
Fly.io
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices
Thunder Compute
- Offers affordable cloud GPUs, including A100 and H100 instances.
- Simple, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
- Focused on maximizing hardware utilization to provide lower costs.
Price comparison
How do Fly.io's prices compare against Thunder Compute?
Example configuration |
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VM Small | $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) | -- |
VM Medium | $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) | -- |
VM Large | $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) | -- |
Block Storage | $15.00 / mo 100 GB | $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB |
Object Storage | $21.00 / mo 1 TB | -- |
Load Balancer | Included in plan | -- |
Managed PostgreSQL | $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | -- |
Free egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | -- |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America) | -- |
Fly.io GPUs
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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L40S | 1x L40S | 48GB | -- | -- | $1.25 | Source |
A10 | 1x A10 | 24GB | -- | -- | $1.50 | Source |
A100 40G PCIe | 1x A100 | 40GB | -- | -- | $2.50 | Source |
A100 80G SXM | 1x A100 | 80GB | -- | -- | $3.50 | Source |
Thunder Compute GPUs
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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Tesla T4 | 1x T4 | 16GB | 4 | 32GB | $0.27 | Source |
A100 (40GB) | 1x A100 | 40GB | 4 | 32GB | $0.57 | Source |
A100 (80GB) | 1x A100 | 80GB | 4 | 32GB | $0.78 | Source |
H100 | 1x H100 | 80GB | 4 | 32GB | $1.47 | Source |
Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Fly.io and Thunder Compute offer:
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Block Storage | ||
GPU-powered Servers | ||
Load Balancer | -- | |
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Object Storage | -- | |
Static Sites | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
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Website | fly.io | thundercompute.com |
Headquarters | United States of America ๐บ๐ธ | United States of America ๐บ๐ธ |
Founded | 2017 | 2024 |
Data Center Locations | 35 | 1 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch | KronosAI, Abbvie |
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Website | fly.io |
Headquarters | United States of America ๐บ๐ธ |
Founded | 2017 |
Data Center Locations | 35 |
Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
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Website | thundercompute.com |
Headquarters | United States of America ๐บ๐ธ |
Founded | 2024 |
Data Center Locations | 1 |
Example Customers | KronosAI, Abbvie |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.