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Gcore vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Gcore logo Gcore

  • Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
  • Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
  • Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
  • Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S

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 Gcore's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

VM Small

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Medium

Gcore Gcore
$70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Large

Gcore Gcore
$141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Block Storage

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

Object Storage

Gcore Gcore
$47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Load Balancer

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Serverless 25M Executions

Gcore Gcore
$7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Gcore Gcore
Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Gcore Gcore
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $1.77 $3.20 A100 $1.46 $1.09

Billing Options

Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustom
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Gcore Gcore
H100(9) H200(1) A100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) GB300(1)
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 Gcore and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Gcore Thunder Compute
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Gcore Gcore
gcore.com
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg LU flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Gcore Gcore
2014
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Gcore Gcore
53
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.