What's good about...

Heroku logo Heroku

  • Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
  • Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
  • Extensive add-on marketplace

Heroku logo 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 Heroku's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Example configuration Heroku Thunder Compute
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) --
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) --
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) --
Block Storage -- $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB
Load Balancer Included in plan --
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage --
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM --
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo) --

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 Heroku and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Heroku Thunder Compute
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --

Company details

Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify
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 Heroku was last updated on Nov. 12, 2024, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.