Cloudinary vs Bunny Storage
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Cloudinary and Bunny Storage.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Cloudinary
0 reviews
4.1/5
Bunny Storage
0 reviews
Bunny Storage is rated higher (4.1 vs 4.0). Cloud-based media platform that handles image/video storage, optimization, and delivery. For developers building apps that need responsive images and video without managing infrastructure. Bunny Storage is a geo-distributed object storage service across 15 regions with integrated Bunny CDN delivery, automatic replication, and an S3-compatible API (public preview). From $0.01/GB per region with free delivery into Bunny CDN and no request fees.
 Cloudinary Image and video management with built-in CDN and automation | Bunny Storage Global edge storage with sub-100ms latency and 99.99% uptime | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | usage-based |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $1/mo |
| Best for | Web and mobile teams whose product surface is media — e-commerce catalogs, listings, user uploads — who want on-the-fly image and video optimization and global delivery without building and operating their own transformation pipeline. | Content platforms, media, SaaS assets, and software distribution where files exist to be downloaded through a CDN at the lowest delivery cost |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Global — multi-CDN (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare); AWS storage worldwide, EEA selectable on Enterprise | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierapi access | eu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi access |
| Visit Cloudinary → | Visit Bunny Storage → | |
Cloudinary
Pros
- + URL-parameter transformations with automatic AVIF/WebP format negotiation remove the need for a home-grown image processing pipeline
- + Single credit meter (1 credit = 1,000 transformations or 1 GB storage or 1 GB bandwidth) keeps pricing understandable, and the Free plan (25 credits/month, no card) is enough for real evaluation
- + Multi-CDN delivery through Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare, with dynamic multi-CDN routing on Enterprise and IPv6 at the edge
- + Published, third-party-measured uptime and a 99.9% availability commitment for the console and API
- + Strong compliance posture: SOC 2 Type II, DPA with SCCs and EU-US Data Privacy Framework, published sub-processor list, bug bounty and annual pen tests
Cons
- - Usage-based credits scale with traffic; heavy image or video delivery outgrows the fixed tiers with no flat-rate option below Enterprise
- - SLA remedy is weak: credits only below 99.6% availability, paid as a three-day subscription extension capped at 10% of the monthly fee, and delivery is excluded from the availability definition
- - EEA data residency is Enterprise-only; standard plans use default (US-based) AWS infrastructure
- - Proprietary transformation URL syntax and admin API create lock-in; the storage API is not S3-compatible (S3 appears only as a backup target)
- - Shared credit pool across transformations, storage and bandwidth makes monthly costs hard to predict from plan limits alone
Bunny Storage
Pros
- + Free delivery into Bunny CDN, free API egress, and zero request fees — the opposite of hyperscaler billing
- + Simple pricing: $0.01/GB per region Standard (HDD), $0.02/GB Edge (SSD), $1 monthly minimum
- + 15 storage regions with automatic replication and region failover; 99.99% availability SLA
- + S3-compatible API (rclone, presigned URLs, SHA256 checksums) plus HTTP API, FTP/SFTP, and web file manager
- + One-click integration as origin for Bunny pull zones, with Perma-Cache for permanent edge storage
Cons
- - S3 compatibility is in public preview and must be enabled per zone at creation — not a finished S3 platform
- - No cold/archive tier: backup-style retention pays full Standard or Edge rates
- - Edge SSD tier's primary region is Frankfurt only; Standard zones can be created in any region
- - Free egress is scoped to Bunny CDN — neutral multi-cloud storage architectures will feel constrained
- - Unverified claim in the old listing: object versioning and CORS specifics were not documented on reviewed pages
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