Bunny.net

What Bunny.net actually is

Bunny.net is a content delivery and edge platform run by BunnyWay d.o.o. out of Ljubljana, Slovenia — a bootstrapped European company founded in 2015 that has spent a decade undercutting the big CDNs on price without looking like a budget product. The stack has grown into a coherent set: a CDN with 119 standard-network PoPs, S3-compatible object storage with global replication, video streaming, image optimization, DNS, edge scripting, and a security add-on. In our CDN providers and cloud object storage listings it is the value pick we reach for most often.

The core proposition is simple pay-as-you-go delivery. Bunny charges for bandwidth and storage, at region-based rates, with a $1 monthly minimum and no request fees. On the standard 119-PoP network that is $0.01/GB for Europe and North America, $0.03/GB for Asia and Oceania, $0.045/GB for South America, and $0.06/GB for the Middle East and Africa. High-volume buyers get a separate 10-PoP "volume network" with a single global rate: $0.005/GB for the first 500 TB, $0.004/GB from 500 TB to 1 PB, and $0.002/GB from 1 to 2 PB, with larger commitments negotiated. Payment by card, PayPal, or crypto; bandwidth caps ("overcharge protection") let you hard-limit spend; a 14-day trial covers evaluation.

Bunny's own comparison table puts 5 TB of Europe/North America traffic at $50 against $165 at CDN77, $220 at BytePlus, $125 at CacheFly, $425+ at CloudFront, and $600+ at Fastly, citing CDNPerf user data and public price listings from March 2025. We treat vendor comparison tables with suspicion as a rule, but these numbers match the direction of our own price checks across benchmarks: per-gigabyte, Bunny is in the cheapest tier of the market, and the gap to CloudFront and Fastly at moderate volume is real money.

Pricing: what you really pay

The mechanics matter more than the headline rate. Bunny meters bandwidth only — no request charges, no purge fees, no SSL fees (Let's Encrypt certificates are one click), no charge for the feature set. Perma-Cache (permanent edge caching to storage), SmartEdge routing, SafeHop origin retries, edge rules, real-time log forwarding, DDoS protection, and the analytics dashboard are included at every level. The two paid add-ons are Bunny Optimizer (image optimization) and Bunny Shield (the security/WAF product, reviewed separately).

Storage plugs into the same account: Standard tier HDD at $0.01/GB per region for up to two regions, $0.005/GB for each additional region, up to nine regions; Edge tier SSD at $0.02/GB per region, up to fifteen regions. Both carry the $1 monthly minimum and, importantly, traffic from Bunny Storage to Bunny CDN is free, API egress is free, and there are no request fees — so the usual "storage is cheap, reading it is not" trap of the hyperscalers does not apply inside the ecosystem. The S3-compatible API (with credentials issued per storage zone) means existing S3 tooling works; FTP, SFTP, a REST API, and a web file manager cover everything else.

What actually lands on the bill: a $1 minimum covers casual use; a busy mid-size site serving 1 TB/month in Europe and North America pays roughly $10; the same traffic from Sydney-heavy audiences pays roughly $30 on the Asia and Oceania rate. The regional multipliers — 3x Asia, 4.5x South America, 6x Middle East and Africa versus the base rate — are where budgets surprise people, and they are the one pricing detail we would model before migrating a globally skewed audience. The volume network flips that logic for large, geographically mixed traffic.

Performance & infrastructure

Bunny publishes concrete network figures: 119 PoPs on the standard network, 250 Tbps+ capacity, direct interconnects with 3,000+ ISPs and 14 Tier 1 transit providers, AMD and NVMe-based edge servers, and a 24 ms average global latency they attribute to CDNPerf data. The storage layer spans 15 regions — Johannesburg, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seattle, Sao Paulo, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Singapore, Sydney, London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Madrid, Prague, with Mumbai planned — and replicates zones across them with automatic region failover. Compare that map with our earlier entry in this category: where the batch data for this listing once said "200+ locations" and "300+ Gbps", the vendor's current numbers are 119 PoPs and 250 Tbps+.

The reliability story has more substance than most CDN marketing. Bunny publishes a 99.99% uptime guarantee backed by an explicit outage-credit schedule: monthly availability below 99.98% earns 12 hours of service credit, scaling up to 240 hours of credit for 7+ hours of downtime. Automatic healing and failover, real-time PoP monitoring, and intelligent BGP routing are described on the same page. It is not the AWS enterprise agreement, but it is a written SLA with a credit table — more than several rivals at this price tier offer.

Feature-wise the edge platform punches above its price. Perma-Cache stores objects permanently at the edge for a 100% cache-hit ratio on static assets; SafeHop configures origin timeouts, delays, and retries to ride out origin flaps; edge rules handle rewrite, redirect, and security logic at the perimeter; real-time analytics and log forwarding close the observability gap. IPv6 support exists at the network level — the docs describe an IP family policy with an IPv6-only mode, and Bunny's blog reports the majority of the network is IPv6-enabled after its reintroduction. Video delivery gets DRM and optimized delivery paths, which is why a lot of small streaming platforms land here. The dashboard and observability deserve a word as well: real-time analytics show traffic and cache ratios as they happen, log forwarding streams raw delivery data into your own pipeline, and every zone exposes the monitoring we expect from much larger platforms. For teams used to waiting on CloudFront's reporting, Bunny's immediacy is a quiet quality-of-life win that shows up during incidents rather than in spec sheets.

Where it falls short

The ecosystem argument is the honest weakness. Bunny does not have CloudFront's IAM-and-CloudFormation gravity, Azure's enterprise contracts, or Fastly's Varnish-level programmability story; its edge scripting is capable but younger and less documented by the crowd. If your architecture assumes AWS identity, KMS, and S3 event triggers everywhere, the S3-compatible API gets your data in and out but not your workflows.

Support is where the gap shows most. Bunny offers 24/7 ticket support and a public phone number for sales, and community sentiment on support quality is generally positive — but it is a lean organization without named TAMs or enterprise support tiers on the standard plans. When a global platform has a bad hour, you are one ticket in a queue with everyone else.

Storage replication is described as automatic global replication with failover, but the tiering is shallow compared with S3's storage classes: no glacier-style cold tier, no lifecycle automation depth, and replication region count is a purchase decision (up to 9 regions Standard, 15 Edge). And the regional bandwidth multipliers noted above can quietly double or triple delivery costs for audiences in South America, the Middle East, and Africa — a far sharper edge than the $0.01/GB headline suggests.

Who should pick this

Our pick for small and mid-sized companies, publishers, and streaming platforms that want CloudFront-class delivery economics without CloudFront. It is especially strong when content is static-heavy, globally distributed, and cost-sensitive: WordPress sites, SaaS asset delivery, game and software distribution, indie video. If you store and deliver inside Bunny's ecosystem, the free storage-to-CDN path plus zero request fees produces bills that are easy to explain to a finance team.

We would not pick it as the backbone of a heavily regulated enterprise with contractual support requirements, or as an S3 replacement for pipelines built on AWS events and IAM. If your traffic is concentrated in the expensive regions, run the multiplier math first — at scale, compare the volume network rate or a rival with flatter geography pricing before committing. Teams evaluating the storage side should also read our Bunny Storage review, where the replication model and region limits get their own treatment.

Key takeaways

• Pay-as-you-go CDN at $0.01/GB (Europe/North America), $0.03/GB (Asia/Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East/Africa); $1 monthly minimum, no request fees.
• 119-PoP standard network plus a 10-PoP volume network at $0.005/GB down to $0.002/GB at high volume; 250 Tbps+ capacity.
• A real SLA: 99.99% uptime guarantee with a published outage-credit schedule.
• S3-compatible storage from $0.01/GB per region with free delivery to Bunny CDN and free API egress.
• Perma-Cache, SafeHop origin retries, edge rules, and DDoS mitigation included; Optimizer and Shield are paid add-ons.
• Strongest value in CDN providers for cost-sensitive global delivery; weaker fit for AWS-native or support-contracted enterprises.

Sources

• https://bunny.net/pricing/
• https://bunny.net/cdn/
• https://bunny.net/storage/
• https://bunny.net/sla/
• https://bunny.net/docs/storage/s3
• https://bunny.net/blog/ipv6-returns-to-bunnycdn/
• https://subger.com/en/in/service/bunny-cdn