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Azure vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

Microsoft Azure logo Azure

  • Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
  • Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
  • 60+ datacenter locations around the world

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 Azure's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

VM Small

Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Medium

Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Large

Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Block Storage

Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 /mo 100 GB
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Object Storage

Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 /mo 1 TB
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Load Balancer

Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 /mo Standard
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Managed PostgreSQL

Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Managed Redis®*

Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Serverless 25M Executions

Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Free egress allowance

Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
--

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Microsoft Azure Azure
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $6.98 $3.20 A100 $3.40 $1.09

Billing Options

Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)Custom
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) H200(4) A100(20) RTX PRO 6000(40) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(4) A10(12) GB200(4) MI455X(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 Azure and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Azure Thunder Compute
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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