SwissGPU logo SwissGPU vs Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

What's good about each

  • 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
  • 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

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service SwissGPU Thunder Compute Difference
Block storage -- Not listed $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included
Egress -- Not listed Free and unlimited

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

SwissGPU offers 7 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU SwissGPU Thunder Compute Difference
Nvidia logo RTX PRO 6000 1 config $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo RTX 5090 1 config $0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 1 config $0.48 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo RTX 3090 1 config $0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada 1 config $1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo RTX 5080 1 config $0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand -- SwissGPU only
Nvidia logo H100 4 configs -- $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo A100 4 configs -- $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo RTX A6000 1 config -- $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only
Nvidia logo L40 4 configs -- $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand Thunder Compute only

SwissGPU bills on-demand; Thunder Compute bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service SwissGPU Thunder Compute
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework SwissGPU Thunder Compute
GDPR -- Yes

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact SwissGPU Thunder Compute
Founded -- 2024
Headquarters Switzerland USA
Locations 1 1
Example customers EduID, Liset Capital, SPH Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website www.swissgpu.ch www.thundercompute.com

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Our data for SwissGPU was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 2, 2026.