Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute provides on-demand GPU instances that are 80% cheaper than AWS, allowing developers to spin up dedicated hardware in seconds.

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Overview

Thunder Compute provides on-demand GPU instances that are 80% cheaper than AWS, allowing developers to spin up dedicated hardware in seconds. It features a persistent VS Code environment, hot-swappable hardware specs, and pre-built templates for AI workflows. Designed for ML engineers, it supports per-minute billing with additional storage and snapshot options accessible via CLI, web console, or VS Code extension.

Key features

  • VS Code integration and persistent environment
  • Hot-swappable GPU and hardware configurations
  • Pre-built AI workflow templates (Comfy UI, Ollama)
  • Snapshots and expandable storage options

Pros & cons

Collected from user feedback found in web search

Pros

  • Founders experienced in systems design and quantitative finance
  • Provides cheapest GPU cloud pricing for AI researchers and developers
  • Solves researcher pain point of GPU reservation delays

Cons

  • Highly competitive GPU cloud market with established players
  • GPU availability and pricing dependent on hardware market conditions

Pricing

PaidStarting price: US$0.35/mo
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Use cases

  • AI model training and development
  • Running Comfy UI for image generation
  • Deploying local LLMs with Ollama

Who it is for

ML engineersDevelopers

Integrations

AWSGoogle CloudNVIDIA GPUsPyTorchTensorFlow

Tags

API

How we verified this

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Last verified 09/10/2026Verified sources: 1

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