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Thunder Compute

Virtualized GPU instances billed per minute

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2024
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At a glance GPU prices checked just now

Cheapest GPU
$0.35 /GPU/hr
RTX A6000 · on-demand
In stock
3 /4
GPU models
Egress
Free
Free and unlimited
GPU models
4
13 configurations

What's good about Thunder Compute

  • 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

Pricing & billing

Pricing page

Instances bill per minute while they run. Each GPU includes 100 GB of persistent disk, extra vCPUs and disk are charged on top of the GPU rate, and egress is not billed.

Sandboxes bill per second and scale to zero. Snapshots are billed monthly by size, and reserved clusters of 8 or more GPUs are quoted by sales.

Price point Configuration Estimated cost
Block storage 100 GB beyond free allowance First 100 GB per GPU included 100 GB beyond free allowance First 100 GB per GPU included $21.90 /mo
Egress Free and unlimited

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Thunder Compute GPUs

How this list works

Order

  • By GPU model: one card per GPU, the most looked-up models first, then the most widely offered ones.
  • By configuration: every configuration we track. What you can rent now comes first, and within that one row per GPU model before any repeats, so the opening rows cover the range rather than one model's sizes.

The price on a card

Each card leads with a per GPU per hour rate. We prefer configurations the provider reports as in stock, on-demand rates before reserved or spot, then take the lowest per-GPU rate among those.

Search

We match the GPU model, form factor, billing type, availability and instance name. Matching is partial and case-insensitive. Everyday words work too, so "interruptible" finds spot and "sold out" finds out of stock.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. Pricing methodology.

Thunder Compute lists 4 GPU models across 13 configurations, including the H100, A100 and RTX A6000. Prices start at $0.35 /GPU/hr on demand.

Nvidia

Nvidia H100

Out of stock

4 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand
from $3.20
From $3.20 /GPU/hr On-Demand SXM
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Nvidia

Nvidia A100

In stock

4 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand
from $1.09
From $1.09 /GPU/hr On-Demand
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Nvidia

Nvidia RTX A6000

In stock

1 config 1x

On-Demand
from $0.35
From $0.35 /GPU/hr On-Demand
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Nvidia

Nvidia L40

In stock

4 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand
from $0.79
From $0.79 /GPU/hr On-Demand
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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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price. See Thunder Compute's pricing.

About Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute is a US GPU cloud renting virtualized on-demand instances in North America, from a single RTX A6000 to eight H100s, plus per-second sandboxes for agents, evals and RL environments.

Instances are billed per minute while they run, with 100 GB of persistent disk per GPU and no egress fees. Snapshots keep an environment for later.

Example customers include NYU Langone Health, MIT, ETH Zürich, UC Berkeley, Theseus, Conduit, InstaLILY.

Services

Thunder Compute offers 2 of the 27 services we track.

Compliance

Thunder Compute covers 1 of the 6 compliance frameworks we track.

Framework Level Checked Source
GDPR thundercompute.com

Heads up: Each row links to the provider's own statement, checked on the date shown. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it.

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Our data for Thunder Compute was last updated on Nov. 4, 2026.