GPU instances for developers

Name: Thunder Compute GPU Instances
Availability: InStock

Persistent RTX A6000, A100 and H100 machines, ready to SSH into in seconds. Switch GPUs any time and snapshot your work for later.

Get started See pricing

ubuntu@thunder: ~ · ssh● instance 0 · A100 80GB · running

~ $ tnr create --gpu a100 --num-gpus 1 --vcpus 8 --template base

✓ Instance created successfully!

Instance ID: 0

~ $ tnr status

ID Status Disk GPU vCPUs RAM Template

0 RUNNING 100GB 1xA100 80GB 8 64GB Base

~ $ tnr connect 0

⚡️ Connecting to Thunder Instance

✓ SSH key management (412ms)

✓ Establishing SSH connection (1.284s)

✓ Connection established successfully

ubuntu@thunder:~$ nvidia-smi

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.20 Driver Version: 570.133.20 CUDA Version: 12.8 |

|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe On | 00000000:00:05.0 Off | 0 |

| N/A 33C P0 61W / 300W | 1MiB / 81920MiB | 0% Default |

| | | Disabled |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

ubuntu@thunder:~$

LOVED BY DEVELOPERS

“This pricing is insane.”
“Can't get enough of this UX.”

Real quotes from ML engineers building on Thunder Compute

I ship faster and our CEO loves the savings. So far, I’ve convinced nine of our MLEs to switch.

ML Engineer

Series B startup

The amount of value is insane. We are bootstrapped and run 2-3 finetuning jobs around the clock.

Co-founder

Data Science Consultancy

The VS Code extension helps me iterate faster. Anything that makes paper deadlines less stressful is a win.

PhD in Machine Learning

U.C. Berkeley

The snapshot flow means I can pause experiments without thinking about cloud housekeeping all day.

Applied AI Lead

Healthcare AI startup

Moving from queueing jobs to spinning up GPUs on demand changed how quickly our team tests ideas.

Research Engineer

Independent AI lab

The pricing finally lets us run bigger sweeps without turning every experiment into a budget meeting.

ML Platform Engineer

Seed-stage robotics company

Unmatched pricing

Low-cost GPUs for developers

Our on-demand pricing is up to 68% less than AWS

Save while developing

Prices low enough where you can develop on an A100

Scale easily

Change specs at any time with a few clicks

$1.09/hr

$1.59/hr

$2.70/hr

$3.43/hr

Thunder Compute

Runpod

CoreWeave

Amazon Web Services

END-TO-END FLEXIBILITY

One environment for development through production

Switch GPUs, add storage, or take a snapshot for later

Stay in VS Code

Connect to a persistent environment in one click

Change specs

One button to change the specs of your instance

END-TO-END FLEXIBILITY

One environment for development through production

Switch GPUs, add storage, or take a snapshot for later

Stay in VS Code

Connect to a persistent environment in one click

Change specs

One button to change the specs of your instance

Snapshots

Keep the machine

Snapshot the instance’s disk, delete the instance, and start a new one from it later. List caches in .thunderignore to keep snapshots small.

Keep working while it saves

Snapshots run in the background on a running instance

Everything on the disk comes back

OS, packages, code, weights and data. Running processes and memory are not saved.

$5.00/mo

$795.70/mo

$2,336/mo

Snapshot, 100 GB

A100 left running

H100 left running

Storage pricing

Pay for storage, not idle GPUs

Snapshots cost $0.05 per GB each month

No GPU charges

A deleted instance bills nothing while you're away

Billed on disk size

A 100 GB disk costs $5.00 a month to keep

Snapshot vs keep running

Know when to snapshot

Keep an instance for active work. Snapshot it when you step away.

	Snapshot and delete	Keep it running
Billing	$0.05 per GB each month	GPU rate, billed per minute
GPU	Released	Held for you
What's kept	OS, packages, code and data	Disk plus running processes
Getting back	Restore, up to 8 min per 100 GB	Connect right away
Best for	Nights, weekends, shared setups	Active work and long training runs