Oracle Cloud vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

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 Oracle Cloud's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Example configuration	Oracle Cloud	Thunder Compute
VM Small	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	--
VM Medium	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	--
VM Large	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	--
Block Storage	$4.25 / mo 100 GB	$15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB
Object Storage	$25.57 / mo	--
Load Balancer	$7.86 / mo	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)	--
Managed Redis®*	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM	--
Free egress allowance	10 TB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB	--

Oracle Cloud GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8	8x MI300X	1536GB	56	2000GB	$6.00	Source

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 Oracle Cloud and Thunder Compute offer:

Service	Oracle Cloud	Thunder Compute
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Oracle Cloud	Thunder Compute
Website	www.oracle.com	thundercompute.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016	2024
Data Center Locations	39	1
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia	KronosAI, Abbvie

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia