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 |
Fly.io
|
Thunder Compute
|
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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:
| Service |
Fly.io
|
Thunder Compute
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
|
Fly.io
|
Thunder Compute
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | fly.io | thundercompute.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2017 | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | 35 | 1 |
| Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch | KronosAI, Abbvie |
|
Fly.io
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | fly.io |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Data Center Locations | 35 |
| Example Customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch |
|
Thunder Compute
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | thundercompute.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| 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 12, 2025.