Runpod
vs
Thalassa Cloud
What's good about each
- Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
- Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
- SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
- Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
- Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
- European cloud with data residency in the Netherlands
- Full Terraform support and API-first platform
- Billed by the minute, with monthly invoicing in Euro
- Direct engineer support in Dutch and English
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Runpod | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | $9.44 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 4.6x more expensive on Runpod |
| Medium VM | $86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | $126.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 31% cheaper on Runpod |
| Large VM | $172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | $256.39 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | 33% cheaper on Runpod |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $20.53 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 2.1x more expensive on Thalassa Cloud |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $25.46 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $17.19 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed |
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
Runpod offers 35 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Thalassa Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Runpod | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
14 configs
|
$2.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
B200
4 configs
|
$6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
H200
8 configs
|
$3.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
5 configs
|
$1.64 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
RTX 5090
3 configs
|
$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | -- | Runpod only |
|
A100
10 configs
|
$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
|
RTX 4090
3 configs
|
$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
MI300X
2 configs
|
$2.39 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | -- | Runpod only |
|
L40S
5 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Runpod only |
Runpod bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Runpod | Thalassa Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands |
| Locations | 32 | 1 |
| Example customers | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide |
| Website | www.runpod.io | thalassa.cloud |
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Our data for Runpod was last updated on Sept. 12, 2026, and for Thalassa Cloud on Feb. 12, 2026.