Bunny Shield vs Sucuri
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Bunny Shield and Sucuri.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
Bunny Shield
0 reviews
3.7/5
Sucuri
0 reviews
Bunny Shield is rated higher (3.8 vs 3.7). Bunny Shield is the security layer of Bunny.net: WAF, DDoS mitigation, rate limiting, bot detection, access lists, and upload scanning for sites and APIs served through Bunny's edge network. Free Basic tier; Advanced $9.50/month, Business $99/month. GoDaddy-owned website security platform (founded 2010): cloud WAF, Anycast CDN, DDoS mitigation, and unlimited human malware cleanups. Firewall-only plans from $9.99/mo; security platform plans from $229/yr. Popular with WordPress sites and small businesses.
Bunny Shield DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall for content delivery | Sucuri Website firewall and malware cleanup service | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.7 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $9.99/mo |
| Best for | Bunny CDN customers — especially UGC and media platforms — who want WAF, bot, and rate-limit protection without a second security vendor | WordPress and small-business site owners who want a cloud firewall plus guaranteed professional malware cleanup from one vendor, and value recovery speed enough to pay for a faster SLA tier. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Tags | ||
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Bunny Shield
Pros
- + Free Basic tier is genuinely protective: 71 WAF rules, 25M requests/month, upload scanning included
- + Full published feature matrix with explicit overage rates — pricing clarity above the category norm
- + Runs on the same 119-center edge as Bunny CDN, so protection adds no second network hop
- + Upload scanning for malware and CSAM is rare outside enterprise UGC platforms' tooling
- + API Guardian validates and authenticates API traffic at the edge before it reaches origin
Cons
- - Only protects properties served through Bunny's network — no stand-alone mode
- - Bot mitigation and inspection depth tier-gated: complex bots require the $99/month Business plan
- - Custom WAF rules capped at 10 (Advanced) and 25 (Business); access lists capped by entries
- - Request-based billing keeps metering during attacks unless limits are configured
- - Younger product with less community depth and fewer documented edge cases than Cloudflare's WAF
Sucuri
Pros
- + Unlimited manual malware cleanups by real analysts on every platform plan
- + WAF, DDoS mitigation (layers 3/4/7), and CDN in one proxy — one DNS change to activate
- + Clear, published plan economics: SLA times and scan frequencies per tier
- + Virtual patching covers unpatched CMS installs while you update
- + 24/7/365 ticket support and a 30-day money-back guarantee
Cons
- - Best feature (human cleanup) engages after you are already breached
- - Response SLAs are tier-gated: 30-hour estimate on the entry plan, and it is not an uptime SLA
- - CDN performance is a convenience layer, not a match for dedicated CDN networks
- - No free tier; firewall-only plans exclude the cleanup service
- - GoDaddy ownership adds portfolio-strategy questions for a trust-critical purchase
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