Thalassa Cloud
vs
Thunder Compute
What's good about each
- 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
- Per-minute billing, nothing charged while an instance is stopped
- Per-second GPU sandboxes, each its own Firecracker microVM
- 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 | Thalassa Cloud | Thunder Compute | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $9.12 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $121.82 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $247.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $19.84 /mo 100 GB NVMe | $21.90 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included | 9% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| PostgreSQL | $24.61 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $16.62 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | -- Not listed | |
| 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
Thunder Compute offers 4 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Thalassa Cloud.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Thalassa Cloud | Thunder Compute |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Container Registry | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Managed PostgreSQL | ||
| Object Storage | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
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 | Thalassa Cloud | Thunder Compute |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | USA |
| Locations | 1 | -- |
| Example customers | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide | NYU Langone Health, MIT, ETH Zürich, UC Berkeley, Theseus, Conduit, InstaLILY |
| Website | thalassa.cloud | www.thundercompute.com |
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Our data for Thalassa Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Oct. 22, 2026.