# Nebius AI Cloud vs Thunder Compute (slim)

> Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Thunder Compute leads on reliability. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Thunder Compute leads on reliability. Both do compute gpu.

- Nebius AI Cloud: B 67.2, rank #240 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.min.md
- Thunder Compute: C 56.1, rank #576 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md
- Nebius AI Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 78 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 48; Security & auth, 81 against 51; 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. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 57.

| Category | Nebius AI Cloud | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 81 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Nebius AI Cloud | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Nebius | Thunder Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.nebius.cloud` | `https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Price for compute gpu | $1.35 per GPU-hour | $0.219 per GB per month |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are 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` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk | 34 stars |