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SwissGPU vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about...

SwissGPU logo SwissGPU

  • Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
  • Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
  • Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
  • No storage or bandwidth charges
  • Stripe payments including TWINT

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • 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

How do SwissGPU's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

SwissGPU logo SwissGPU Pricing Details

Per-minute billing in CHF; the server price is the only compute charge. Electricity billed separately at CHF 0.30/kWh, with a CHF 0.50 OS reinstall fee. Payments via Stripe, including TWINT.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

SwissGPU SwissGPU
On-Demand
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

SwissGPU offers 7 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

SwissGPU SwissGPU
RTX PRO 6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1) RTX 6000 Ada(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 5080(1)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that SwissGPU and Thunder Compute offer:

Service SwissGPU Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Website
SwissGPU SwissGPU
www.swissgpu.ch
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
SwissGPU SwissGPU
Switzerland CH flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
SwissGPU SwissGPU
1
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
SwissGPU SwissGPU
EduID, Liset Capital, SPH
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

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Our data for SwissGPU was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.