Novita logo Novita vs Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

What's good about each

  • Wide range of GPU options from RTX 3090 to H200
  • Spot pricing available for up to 50% cost savings
  • Offers serverless endpoints, bare metal, and cloud instances
  • 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

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service Novita Thunder Compute Difference
Block storage -- Not listed $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included
Egress -- Not listed Free and unlimited

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

Novita offers 5 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU Novita Thunder Compute Difference
Nvidia logo H100 20 configs · 4 configs $3.39 /GPU/hr On-demand $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out 6% cheaper on Thunder Compute
Nvidia logo RTX 5090 20 configs $0.35 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out -- Novita only
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 20 configs $0.17 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out -- Novita only
Nvidia logo L40S 8 configs $0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand -- Novita only
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada 20 configs $0.39 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out -- Novita only
Nvidia logo A100 4 configs -- $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo RTX A6000 1 config -- $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo L40 4 configs -- $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only

Novita bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service Novita Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Python Notebooks

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework Novita Thunder Compute
SOC 2 Type II --
GDPR -- Yes

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact Novita Thunder Compute
Founded 2023 2024
Headquarters USA USA
Locations 16 1
Example customers beBee, Fish Audio, Gizmo, Wiz.ai Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website novita.ai www.thundercompute.com

Alternatives to consider

Compare Novita and Thunder Compute against other cloud providers.

Our data for Novita was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 2, 2026.