TensorDock logo TensorDock vs Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

What's good about each

  • Marketplace model with competitive pricing
  • Pay-per-second billing with no minimum commitments
  • No waitlists or quotas for GPU access
  • Global coverage across 100+ locations
  • 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 TensorDock Thunder Compute Difference
Small VM $10.80 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB storage -- Not listed
Medium VM $20.88 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 20 GB storage -- Not listed
Large VM $41.04 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 20 GB storage -- Not listed
Block storage $0.01 /mo 100 GB $21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included 2,160x more expensive on Thunder Compute
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

TensorDock offers 9 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU TensorDock Thunder Compute Difference
Nvidia logo H100 1 config · 4 configs $2.36 /GPU/hr On-demand $3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand 26% cheaper on TensorDock
Nvidia logo A100 2 configs · 4 configs $1.61 /GPU/hr On-demand $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand 32% cheaper on Thunder Compute
Nvidia logo RTX A6000 1 config · 1 config $0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand 38% cheaper on Thunder Compute
Nvidia logo L40 1 config · 4 configs $1.06 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand 25% cheaper on Thunder Compute
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 1 config $0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand -- TensorDock only
Nvidia logo RTX 3090 1 config $0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand -- TensorDock only
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada 1 config $0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand -- TensorDock only
Nvidia logo V100 1 config $0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand -- TensorDock only
Nvidia logo A4000 1 config $0.21 /GPU/hr On-demand -- TensorDock only

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

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Company details

Fact TensorDock Thunder Compute
Founded 2021 2024
Headquarters USA USA
Locations -- 1
Example customers Florida State University, Creavite, airgpu, ELBO Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health
Website www.tensordock.com www.thundercompute.com

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Our data for TensorDock was last updated on Sept. 17, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 18, 2026.