# Crusoe Cloud vs Thunder Compute (slim)

> Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) to Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do gpu compute.

- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md
- Thunder Compute: C 56.1, rank #640 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md
- Crusoe Cloud, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 74 against 51; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Transparency & trust, 77 against 64. Also Runs on your own machine.
- 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.

| Category | Crusoe Cloud | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 45 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crusoe Cloud | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crusoe | Thunder Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | `https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for gpu compute | not published | $0.219 per GB per month |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 41 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Thunder-Compute/thunder-compute` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 7 npm/wk | 34 stars |