Thunder Compute
vs
Vercel
What's good about each
- 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
- Built-in support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
- API for issuing custom domains to your own customers
- Functions bill CPU time, not time spent waiting on I/O
- 20 compute regions, 120+ edge locations
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Thunder Compute | Vercel | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block storage | $21.90 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $36.40 /mo 1 TB (Vercel Blob) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $170.42 /mo 25M invocations, 2 GB RAM (minimum), 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 100 GB (Hobby) to 1 TB (Pro) | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB (Fast Data Transfer) |
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 Vercel.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Thunder Compute | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | 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 | Thunder Compute | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 20 |
| Example customers | NYU Langone Health, MIT, ETH Zürich, UC Berkeley, Theseus, Conduit, InstaLILY | Shopify, Notion, Stripe, Ramp, The Weather Company |
| Website | www.thundercompute.com | vercel.com |
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Our data for Thunder Compute was last updated on Oct. 22, 2026, and for Vercel on Sept. 18, 2026.