What's good about...
Railway
- Super fast to deploy a container-based stack
- You pay for actual usage, may result in big savings
- Offers many deployment templates for common use cases
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 Railway's prices compare against Thunder Compute?
| Example configuration |
Railway
|
Thunder Compute
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- |
| VM Medium | $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | -- |
| VM Large | $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | -- |
| Block Storage | $15.00 / mo 100 GB | $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB |
| Load Balancer | Included in plan | -- |
| Managed PostgreSQL | $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage | -- |
| Managed Redis®* | $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | -- |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $50.00 $0.05 / GB | -- |
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 Railway and Thunder Compute offer:
| Service |
Railway
|
Thunder Compute
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- |
Company details
|
Railway
|
Thunder Compute
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | railway.app | thundercompute.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 | 1 |
| Example Customers | -- | KronosAI, Abbvie |
|
Railway
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | railway.app |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2020 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 |
| Example Customers | -- |
|
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 Railway was last updated on May 26, 2025, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.