Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute is a low-cost GPU cloud offering on-demand virtual GPU instances (T4, A6000, A100 80GB, L40, H100 PCIe) billed per minute. Developers provision and manage instances primarily through the tnr CLI, with a documented REST API at https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1 for creating, listing, modifying, and deleting instances, managing snapshots and SSH keys, and reading pricing/specs. A Terraform provider wraps the same API.

Thunder Compute publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Instances API, Pricing API, Snapshots API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include GPU, Cloud, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, and Compute.

The Thunder Compute catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Thunder Compute’s developer surface includes pricing, authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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31.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 84/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

GPU Cloud Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Compute

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Instances

POST /instances/create

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 31.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
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Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 34.0 — up to +13.2 composite points Ask about this →

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	46.0	1	-

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Thunder Compute CLI (tnr)

The tnr command-line interface is the primary developer surface for Thunder Compute, wrapping the REST API to log in, create, connect to, snapshot, and delete GPU instances and ...

Thunder Compute Instances API

The Instances API from Thunder Compute — 6 operation(s) for instances.

Thunder Compute Pricing API

The Pricing API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for pricing.

Thunder Compute Snapshots API

The Snapshots API from Thunder Compute — 3 operation(s) for snapshots.

Thunder Compute Specs API

The Specs API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for specs.

Thunder Compute SSH Keys API

The SSH Keys API from Thunder Compute — 3 operation(s) for ssh keys.

Thunder Compute Templates API

The Templates API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for templates.

Thunder Compute Tokens API

The Tokens API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for tokens.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Thunder Compute Instances API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances Pricing API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances Snapshots API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances Specs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances SSH Keys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances Templates API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute Instances Tokens API

OPEN COLLECTION

Thunder Compute API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Thunder Compute MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.thundercompute.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Thunder Compute API pricing

Prices published by Thunder Compute, read 2026-09-20 from www.thundercompute.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
RTX A6000 (1x)	$0.35 Includes: 48 GB VRAM, 6 - 8 vCPUs, 48GB - 64GB RAM, 100GB - 500GB storage
L40 (1x)	$0.79 Includes: 48 GB VRAM, 6 - 12 vCPUs, 48GB - 96GB RAM, 100GB - 500GB storage
A100 80GB (1x)	$1.09 Includes: 80 GB VRAM, 8 - 16 vCPUs, 64GB - 128GB RAM
H100 PCIe (1x)	$3.20 Includes: 80 GB VRAM, 4 - 16 vCPUs, 32GB - 128GB RAM
L40 (2x)	$1.58 Includes: 96 GB VRAM
A100 80GB (2x)	$2.18 Includes: 160 GB VRAM
H100 PCIe (2x)	$6.40 Includes: 160 GB VRAM
L40 (4x)	$3.96 Includes: 192 GB VRAM

All 16 plans, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Concurrent Instances: see provider console instances
GPU Type Availability: see provider console gpus
API Requests: not published requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Thunder Compute's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Thunder Compute Plans Pricing

16 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Thunder Compute Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Thunder Compute Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Thunder Compute API Rules

55 rules · 50 error-severity 1 warn-severity 4 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Thunder Compute Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Thunder Compute Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Thunder Compute Agentic Access

16 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: thundercompute
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thundercompute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Thunder Compute
kind: company
description: Thunder Compute is a low-cost GPU cloud offering on-demand virtual GPU instances (T4, A6000, A100 80GB, L40,
  H100 PCIe) billed per minute. Developers provision and manage instances primarily through the tnr CLI, with a documented
  REST API at https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1 for creating, listing, modifying, and deleting instances, managing snapshots
  and SSH keys, and reading pricing/specs. A Terraform provider wraps the same API.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - thunder-compute/thunder-cli
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/thundercompute.png
tags:
- GPU
- Cloud
- Infrastructure
- Artificial Intelligence
- Compute
tags_raw:
- GPU
- Cloud
- Infrastructure
- AI
- Compute
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-cli
  name: Thunder Compute CLI (tnr)
  tags:
  - CLI
  - tnr
  - Developer Tools
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs/cli-reference
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs/cli-reference
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/Thunder-Compute/thunder-cli
    type: SourceCode
  description: The tnr command-line interface is the primary developer surface for Thunder Compute, wrapping the REST API
    to log in, create, connect to, snapshot, and delete GPU instances and transfer files. Authenticates with an API token
    set via TNR_API_TOKEN.
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-instances-api
  name: Thunder Compute Instances API
  description: The Instances API from Thunder Compute — 6 operation(s) for instances.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Instances
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-instances-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-pricing-api
  name: Thunder Compute Pricing API
  description: The Pricing API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for pricing.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Pricing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-pricing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-snapshots-api
  name: Thunder Compute Snapshots API
  description: The Snapshots API from Thunder Compute — 3 operation(s) for snapshots.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Snapshots
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-snapshots-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-specs-api
  name: Thunder Compute Specs API
  description: The Specs API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for specs.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Specs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-specs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-ssh-keys-api
  name: Thunder Compute SSH Keys API
  description: The SSH Keys API from Thunder Compute — 3 operation(s) for ssh keys.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - SSH Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-ssh-keys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-templates-api
  name: Thunder Compute Templates API
  description: The Templates API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for templates.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
- aid: thundercompute:thundercompute-tokens-api
  name: Thunder Compute Tokens API
  description: The Tokens API from Thunder Compute — 1 operation(s) for tokens.
  humanURL: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/v1
  tags:
  - Tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thundercompute-tokens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.thundercompute.com:8443/openapi.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/thundercompute.opencollection.json
common:
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.thundercompute.com/pricing
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/thundercompute-capability-edges.yml
  name: Thunder Compute Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/thundercompute-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/thundercompute-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/thundercompute-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Thunder-Compute
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thunder-compute
- type: Website
  url: https://www.thundercompute.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.thundercompute.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/thundercompute-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/thundercompute-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/thundercompute-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.thundercompute.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Thunder Compute API — frequently asked questions

Does Thunder Compute have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Thunder Compute, including Thunder Compute CLI (tnr), Thunder Compute Instances API and Thunder Compute Pricing API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Thunder Compute API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Thunder Compute, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Thunder Compute API?

Thunder Compute documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Thunder Compute Authentication.

How much does the Thunder Compute API cost?

Thunder Compute publishes its prices; its RTX A6000 (1x) plan is $0.35 as of 2026-09-20. APIs.io lists 16 pricing plans for Thunder Compute, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Thunder Compute have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Thunder Compute: Remote MCP server at www.thundercompute.com over HTTP.

Is the Thunder Compute API ready for AI agents?

Thunder Compute has a Kin Score of 31.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 42.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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