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Hot Aisle vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Hot Aisle logo Hot Aisle

  • Simple, competitive pricing at $2.99/GPU/h
  • Self-serve platform with bare metal access
  • SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant
  • Hosted in a Tier 5 facility 100% powered by renewable energy

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 Hot Aisle's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

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

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

Hot Aisle logo Hot Aisle Pricing Details

Hot Aisle offers three tiers: Small (1x MI300X), Medium (2-4x MI300X), and Large (8x MI300X bare metal). VMs are priced at $2.99/GPU/hr, billed by the minute. The 8x bare metal tier is $3.39/GPU/hr with a one-month minimum commitment.

CPU cores scale with GPU count:

  • Small (1x): 8 or 13 cores
  • Medium (2x): 26 cores
  • Medium (4x): 52 cores
  • Large (8x): 64 or 102 cores

The full specs are available here.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
On-DemandReserved (1mo)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Hot Aisle offers 1 GPU model, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
MI300X(6)
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 Hot Aisle and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Hot Aisle Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Website
Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
hotaisle.xyz
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
2023
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
1
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Hot Aisle Hot Aisle
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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Our data for Hot Aisle was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.