# Cerebrium vs Thunder Compute (slim)

> Thunder Compute and Cerebrium score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 56.1 (C) and 55.3 (C). Cerebrium leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Thunder Compute and Cerebrium score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 56.1 (C) and 55.3 (C). Cerebrium leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #593 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Thunder Compute: C 56.1, rank #576 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md
- Cerebrium, good for Teams serving their own models as real-time endpoints (voice, LLM, image) who want per-second billing, multi-region placement and a scriptable management API. Ahead on Security & auth, 60 against 51; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20.
- Thunder Compute, good for Agents in coding tools that rent a single persistent GPU machine for development, fine-tuning or a model server, at low hourly prices and over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 48.

| Category | Cerebrium | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cerebrium | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cerebrium Inc. | Thunder Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` | `https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for compute gpu | not published | $0.219 per GB per month |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT | Proprietary service under Thunder Compute's Terms and Conditions. The `tnr` CLI on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Thunder-Compute/thunder-compute` |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 920 PyPI/wk | 34 stars |