What's good about...

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery
  • Generous free tier

Render logo 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 Render's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Example configuration Render Thunder Compute
VM Small $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) --
VM Medium $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) --
VM Large $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) --
Block Storage $25.00 / mo 100 GB $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB
Load Balancer Included in plan --
Managed PostgreSQL $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage --
Managed Redis®* $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM --
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $300.00 Billed $30 / 100 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 Render and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Render Thunder Compute
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Static Sites --

Company details

Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt
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 Render was last updated on Nov. 12, 2024, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.