# Koyeb vs Thunder Compute (slim)

> Thunder Compute scores 56.1 (C) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Koyeb leads on agent ergonomics. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Thunder Compute scores 56.1 (C) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Koyeb leads on agent ergonomics. Both do compute gpu.

- Koyeb: D 46.5, rank #755 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koyeb.min.md
- Thunder Compute: C 56.1, rank #576 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md
- Koyeb, good for Teams that want cheap H100 or H200 containers with scale to zero and an SLA, deployed from Git or an image without a vendor SDK. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 56 against 48.
- 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 60; Schema & documentation, 70 against 41; Maintenance & community, 79 against 23.

| Category | Koyeb | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 41 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 23 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Koyeb | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Koyeb | Thunder Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.koyeb.com/v1` | `https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | Token | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for compute gpu | not published | $0.219 per GB per month |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Thunder Compute's Terms and Conditions. The `tnr` CLI on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Thunder-Compute/thunder-compute` |
| Last release | 2026-05-12 | 2026-09-16 |
| 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 | 72 stars | 34 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |