# Northflank vs Thunder Compute (slim)

> Northflank scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Thunder Compute leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Northflank scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Thunder Compute's 56.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Thunder Compute leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do compute gpu.

- Northflank: C 61.3, rank #426 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.min.md
- Thunder Compute: C 56.1, rank #576 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.min.md
- Northflank, good for Teams that want GPUs next to their services and databases on one platform, or inside their own cloud account. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 70; Security & auth, 75 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 Maintenance & community, 79 against 65; Transparency & trust, 64 against 55.

| Category | Northflank | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Northflank | Thunder Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Northflank | Thunder Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.northflank.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 | none | 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 | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-03-01 | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-03-01 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 19k npm/wk | 34 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |