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      "slug": "crusoe-cloud",
      "name": "Crusoe Cloud",
      "vendor": "Crusoe",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.crusoe.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Crusoe Cloud rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU virtual machines with managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and runs hosted model inference, dedicated deployments and LoRA fine-tuning. Resources are managed through a REST API, a CLI, a Terraform provider and a Go client.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/crusoecloud/client-go",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/crusoecloud/client-go"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crusoeai/cloud-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up in the console with Google, GitHub or an email code, then creates an access key ID and secret key under Security, with an optional alias and expiry. Each request carries `X-Crusoe-Timestamp` and `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`, where the signature is an HMAC-SHA256 of the path, sorted query string, verb and timestamp. Keys inherit the roles of the user who made them (`org-admin`, `org-editor`, `org-reader`, `project-editor`, `project-reader`). Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys sent as a Bearer token. Service accounts appear in the API description and the Terraform provider 1.6.0, with no docs page found.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go, billed per second for on-demand VMs. Per GPU-hour, H200 $4.29, H100 $3.90, MI300X $3.45, A100 $2.00 to $2.30 and L40S $1.50. GB200, B200, MI355X and all spot prices are contact sales. Compute needs a non-prepaid credit card. $5 of introductory credits cover Serverless Inference and Fine-Tuning without a card. Ingress and egress are free (https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.04 / vCPU-hr",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API description or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 41,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 7,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.crusoecloud.com/v1/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "compute.gpu",
        "compute.containers",
        "compute.batch",
        "compute.endpoints"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "usage-priced",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "cli",
        "terraform",
        "go",
        "status-page",
        "soc2",
        "enterprise"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-08",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 63.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 396,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 45,
          "maintenance": 76,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 77
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The v1 REST API has a published OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, HMAC-signed keys, reader roles and a 90-day audit log, with on-demand GPU prices public. No idempotency keys or control-plane rate limits were found, spot and B200 prices go through sales, and a storage outage in eu-norway1 lasted about four hours on 29 September 2026.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.",
        "strengths": [
          "Requests are signed with HMAC-SHA256 over the path, query, verb and timestamp, so the secret key never travels with a request.",
          "The API description is published for `/v1` and `/v1alpha5`, with 1,231 examples, and the docs serve `llms.txt` and a Markdown twin of each page.",
          "On-demand prices are public and billed per second. H100 is $3.90 and H200 $4.29 a GPU-hour, with no charge for ingress or egress.",
          "Organisation and project roles include read-only `org-reader` and `project-reader`, and the audit log keeps 90 days of control-plane actions readable through the API.",
          "The Terms of Service promise 90 days' notice before a service is discontinued or a customer-facing API changes in a backwards-incompatible way."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.",
          "No request rate limits were found for the infrastructure API. Numbers are published only for Serverless Inference.",
          "Spot prices and on-demand prices for GB200, B200 and MI355X are listed as contact sales, and provisioning compute needs a non-prepaid credit card.",
          "The status page shows a critical storage incident in eu-norway1 on 29 September 2026 (about 3 hours 54 minutes) and a 7.5-hour VM and cluster creation fault in us-east2 on 2 September.",
          "The Service Specific Terms let customers publish benchmark results only with Crusoe's written consent, and the Intelligence Foundry terms bar competitive analysis or benchmarking. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.",
          "Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.",
          "Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.",
          "Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.",
          "Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 63.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 45,
          "maintenance": 76,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "brew install crusoecloud/cli/crusoe",
        "http": "curl https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1/capacities -H \"X-Crusoe-Timestamp: \u003cRFC3339 timestamp\u003e\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cversion:access_key_id:base64_encoded_signature\u003e\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add crusoe-cloud -- npx -y @crusoeai/cloud-mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "crusoe-cloud": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@crusoeai/cloud-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "npx"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/crusoe-cloud"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H100 80 GB HGX, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.9,
          "note": "Billed per second while running. Spot is contact sales"
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H200 141 GB HGX, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 4.29
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA A100 80 GB SXM, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.3
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA A100 80 GB PCIe, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA L40S 48 GB, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.5
        },
        {
          "item": "AMD MI300X 192 GB, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.45
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H100, Self-Serve Deployment",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 5.5,
          "note": "Dedicated inference endpoint, billed until deleted. H200 $6.00, B200 $9.65, MI355X $7.40"
        },
        {
          "item": "General-purpose CPU instance",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.04,
          "note": "Storage-optimised $0.09"
        },
        {
          "item": "Persistent disk",
          "unit": "gb-month",
          "usd": 0.08,
          "note": "Per GiB. Shared disks $0.07, Object Storage $0.06"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Crusoe Technologies LLC",
        "domain": "crusoe.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-01-28",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://legal.crusoe.ai/#terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://legal.crusoe.ai/#cloud-privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.crusoecloud.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/updates",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-09",
        "notes": [
          "The Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service, version 1.10, effective 10 August 2026, are a contract with Crusoe Technologies LLC and its affiliates. Ten earlier versions are kept on the same page.",
          "legal.crusoe.ai is one page that holds every legal document and its earlier versions, reached by anchor. The terms and privacy links point at the anchors for the platform terms and the Crusoe Cloud Platform Privacy Notice, not at the separate website terms and website privacy notice.",
          "The Crusoe Cloud Platform Privacy Notice, version 1.3, effective 12 March 2026, covers Service Data only. Customer Data falls under the Data Processing and Security Terms, version 1.3, effective 14 July 2026.",
          "The API reference gives `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`, under the vendor domain. Other docs pages and the MCP server name `api.crusoecloud.com`, and Managed AI answers at `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com`. crusoecloud.com was registered on 14 April 2020 per RDAP and redirects to www.crusoe.ai.",
          "security.txt at www.crusoe.ai gives security@crusoe.ai and expires on 1 March 2027. It has no Policy field.",
          "RDAP for crusoe.ai gives a registration date of 2019-01-28. The website footer reads Crusoe, Inc, and the licence files in the CLI and Go client repositories name Crusoe Energy Systems LLC."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "crusoe-cloud",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:24.770820028Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 241,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 190,
          "p95ms24h": 304,
          "samples24h": 125,
          "samples30d": 125,
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              "probes": 85,
              "ok": 85
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
              "probes": 40,
              "ok": 40
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.crusoecloud.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:13.179768576Z"
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        "versions": [
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            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@crusoeai/cloud-mcp",
            "version": "0.1.6",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:48:11.482960233Z"
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        ],
        "githubStars": 4,
        "npmWeekly": 7,
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/updates",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:05.621891732Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "49f564f8d6cc"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:22.174984932Z",
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            "fingerprint": "c8964d1b8c97"
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          {
            "url": "https://legal.crusoe.ai/",
            "kind": "terms",
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    "answer": "Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "thunder-compute",
      "name": "Thunder Compute",
      "vendor": "Thunder Compute",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.thundercompute.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Thunder Compute is a US GPU cloud renting RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100 instances by the minute and GPU sandboxes by the second. Agents use its REST API, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, or the `tnr` CLI.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thunder-compute.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Thunder-Compute/thunder-cli",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Thunder Compute's Terms and Conditions. The `tnr` CLI on GitHub is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/Thunder-Compute/thunder-cli"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "thunder-sandbox"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth 2.0 with discovery. The first connection opens a browser to sign in and approve, tokens refresh, and the scopes are `instances:read`, `instances:write`, `snapshots:read`, `snapshots:write`, `sandboxes:read`, `sandboxes:write`, `billing:read` and `org:read`. The REST API takes a named API token as a Bearer header. Tokens are created and revoked one at a time in the console, or with the MCP `create_token` tool, and no token scopes were found. The CLI and the sandbox SDK read `TNR_API_TOKEN` for headless use. Price, specification, availability and template endpoints need no token.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "No general free tier. Instances are billed by the minute while they run, paid by saved card or preloaded credit that is non-refundable. Per GPU an hour on 9 October 2026, RTX A6000 is $0.35, L40 $0.79, A100 80 GB $1.09 and H100 $3.20. Sandboxes are billed by the second and need access enabled by the vendor. Students with a US university email get $20 of credit for A6000 and L40 GPUs. Reserved capacity is by quote (https://www.thundercompute.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.04 / vCPU-hr",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs corpus, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 28,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 34,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.thundercompute.com/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.thundercompute.com/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "io.github.Thunder-Compute/thunder-compute",
      "capabilities": [
        "compute.gpu",
        "compute.containers"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "usage-priced",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "cli",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "python",
        "go",
        "status-page",
        "card-required",
        "closed-source"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 56.1,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 640,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 48,
          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 65,
          "schema": 70,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 64
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth and separate read and write scopes, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document with keyless price and availability endpoints. No rate limits, SLA or API changelog were found, instance creation has no idempotency key, and instances cannot be stopped, only deleted.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Hosted MCP server at `https://www.thundercompute.com/mcp` with OAuth and ten scopes that separate read from write for instances, snapshots and sandboxes",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 document with 41 operations, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "`GET /v2/pricing`, `GET /v2/specs` and `GET /v2/status` return prices, configurations and live availability without a token",
          "Section 28 of the terms, dated 28 September 2026, permits access by AI agents, scripts and SDKs through the account holder's own credentials",
          "The status page lists no incidents for July to October 2026 on its Website, API and Instances components"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation, and the terms disclaim availability",
          "`POST /instances/create` has no idempotency key, so a retried launch can start a second billed instance",
          "Instances cannot be stopped. Pausing means taking a snapshot, deleting the instance and restoring later",
          "No general free tier. The $20 credit is limited to students with a US university email",
          "No security.txt or disclosure policy was found, and the SOC 2 Type II claim in `llms.txt` has no report or trust page linked",
          "The sub-processor list, last updated 27 August 2025, names Firebase for sign-in while the MCP docs name Stytch"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call `GET /v2/status` or the `get_availability` tool before creating an instance. Availability can change before launch, and creation fails when a type is sold out.",
          "List instances before retrying a failed create, because the call has no idempotency key.",
          "Pass `public_key` on create. If omitted, the response carries a generated private key that is returned once.",
          "To pause work, create a snapshot, delete the instance and later create a new instance from the snapshot. Snapshot storage keeps billing until deleted.",
          "For headless use set `TNR_API_TOKEN` to a token from the console. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in on first connection."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 56.1
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 48,
          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 65,
          "schema": 70,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 77
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Thunder-Compute/thunder-cli/main/scripts/install.sh | bash",
        "http": "curl https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v2/pricing",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http thunder-compute https://www.thundercompute.com/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "thunder-compute": {
              "url": "https://www.thundercompute.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/thunder-compute"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "RTX A6000 48 GB instance",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.35,
          "note": "Billed per minute. One GPU per instance"
        },
        {
          "item": "L40 48 GB instance",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.79,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "A100 80 GB instance",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.09,
          "note": "Billed per minute. 4 and 8 GPU shapes cost $1.49 a GPU per the price endpoint"
        },
        {
          "item": "H100 80 GB instance",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.2,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "H100 80 GB sandbox",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.95,
          "note": "Billed per second, plus vCPU and memory. Access on request"
        },
        {
          "item": "A100 80 GB sandbox",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.95,
          "note": "Billed per second, plus vCPU and memory. Access on request"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra instance vCPU",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.04,
          "note": "Above the vCPUs included with each GPU"
        },
        {
          "item": "Sandbox vCPU",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.051,
          "note": "Memory is $0.016 per GiB an hour"
        },
        {
          "item": "Instance disk above 100 GB per GPU",
          "unit": "gb-month",
          "usd": 0.219,
          "note": "Billed only while the instance runs"
        },
        {
          "item": "Snapshot storage",
          "unit": "gb-month",
          "usd": 0.05,
          "note": "Kept until deleted"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Thunder GPU, Inc.",
        "domain": "thundercompute.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-02-29",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.thundercompute.com/terms-and-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://www.thundercompute.com/privacy-policy",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thunder-compute.json\n- Best GPU and serverless compute for AI workloads: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/gpu-compute/index.md\n- All 167 gpu compute comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpu-compute/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Crusoe Cloud (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 70\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.\n\n### Thunder Compute (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nWatch for: No rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation, and the terms disclaim availability\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Crusoe Cloud | Thunder Compute | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 65 | Crusoe Cloud +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 70 | Crusoe Cloud +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 45 | 48 | Thunder Compute +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 51 | Crusoe Cloud +23 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Crusoe Cloud +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 79 | Thunder Compute +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 64 | Crusoe Cloud +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.4 · B** | **56.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Crusoe Cloud | Thunder Compute |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Crusoe | Thunder Compute |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | `https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for gpu compute | not published | $0.219 per GB per month |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository | Proprietary service under Thunder Compute's Terms and Conditions. The `tnr` CLI on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 41 | 28 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Thunder-Compute/thunder-compute` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 7 npm/wk | 34 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Crusoe Cloud.** The v1 REST API has a published OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, HMAC-signed keys, reader roles and a 90-day audit log, with on-demand GPU prices public. No idempotency keys or control-plane rate limits were found, spot and B200 prices go through sales, and a storage outage in eu-norway1 lasted about four hours on 29 September 2026.\n\n**Thunder Compute.** The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth and separate read and write scopes, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document with keyless price and availability endpoints. No rate limits, SLA or API changelog were found, instance creation has no idempotency key, and instances cannot be stopped, only deleted.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Crusoe Cloud\n\n1. Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.\n2. Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.\n3. Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.\n4. Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.\n5. Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month.\n\n### Thunder Compute\n\n1. Call `GET /v2/status` or the `get_availability` tool before creating an instance. Availability can change before launch, and creation fails when a type is sold out.\n2. List instances before retrying a failed create, because the call has no idempotency key.\n3. Pass `public_key` on create. If omitted, the response carries a generated private key that is returned once.\n4. To pause work, create a snapshot, delete the instance and later create a new instance from the snapshot. Snapshot storage keeps billing until deleted.\n5. For headless use set `TNR_API_TOKEN` to a token from the console. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in on first connection.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Crusoe Cloud or Thunder Compute?\n\nCrusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Crusoe Cloud and Thunder Compute need an API key?\n\nCrusoe Cloud needs an API key. Thunder Compute takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Crusoe Cloud and Thunder Compute without installing anything?\n\nYes. Crusoe Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1 and Thunder Compute at https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-thunder-compute.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-thunder-compute.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crusoe-cloud\", \"b\": \"thunder-compute\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare crusoe-cloud thunder-compute`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thunder-compute.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Crusoe Cloud or Thunder Compute\n\n- [Baseten vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [Baseten vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Beam vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [Beam vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Cerebrium vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [Cerebrium vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Hyperbolic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-hyperbolic.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-modal.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-verda.md)\n- [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-endpoints-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Hyperbolic vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbolic-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Koyeb vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Modal vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Northflank vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Replicate Deployments vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-deploy-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Runpod vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Thunder Compute vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thunder-compute-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Thunder Compute vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thunder-compute-vs-verda.md)\n",
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