Bunny.net Review: The CDN That Undercuts the Giants in 2026

If you have ever opened a CloudFront bill after a traffic spike, you already know the pitch Bunny.net is making. The Slovenia-based CDN, around since 2018, sells egress at a fraction of what the hyperscalers charge and has spent the last few years bolting on storage, video, edge scripting, and a WAF to turn a cheap pipe into something closer to a platform. We pulled its public pricing, ran a static site through it, and compared the numbers against the providers most developers actually migrate from.

The short version: the cost gap is real and it is large. The trade-off is that you are buying from a smaller company with a thinner ecosystem than Cloudflare, and you should size that risk against the savings before you move production traffic.

The pricing is the headline, and it holds up

Bunny.net splits delivery into two networks. The Standard Tier routes through its full set of points of presence and is priced by region, starting around $0.01/GB in North America and Europe and climbing to roughly $0.03–$0.06/GB for Asia, South America, and the Middle East. The Volume Network — a smaller PoP footprint tuned for large-file delivery — drops to a flat $0.005/GB worldwide. There is no free tier, but the minimum spend is $1/month and accounts start with a trial credit.

Put that next to the incumbents. AWS CloudFront’s first tier sits near $0.085/GB in North America before volume discounts. Fastly’s pay-as-you-go North America rate is in the same neighborhood. Cloudflare’s flagship CDN bundles unmetered egress into its plans, which is genuinely free for cacheable traffic but comes with its own constraints around what you can serve and how.

For a site pushing a few hundred gigabytes of images and downloads a month, the difference between $0.01 and $0.085 per gigabyte is the difference between a rounding error and a line item you have to explain. That is the entire reason developers find Bunny.net in the first place.

It is more than a pipe now

The thing that has changed since Bunny.net’s early days is the surrounding product. You are no longer just buying caching. The platform now includes Edge Storage (replicated object storage you can pin to specific regions), Bunny Stream (video hosting with transcoding and an HLS player), the Bunny Optimizer (on-the-fly image resizing, WebP conversion, and minification), Edge Scripting (a serverless runtime for request manipulation), Bunny DNS, and Bunny Shield for WAF and DDoS filtering.

That list reads a lot like a Cloudflare feature page, and the comparison is fair but not flattering in every dimension. Cloudflare’s Workers runtime, R2 storage, and developer tooling are more mature, better documented, and backed by a far larger community. When you hit an edge case at 2am, the odds that someone has already written up the fix are higher on Cloudflare. Bunny.net’s docs are clean and its dashboard is unusually pleasant, but the long tail of Stack Overflow answers and third-party tutorials is thinner.

Where Bunny.net’s design choices stand out is granularity. You can scope a Pull Zone to specific regions and pay only for the PoPs you actually want, which is awkward or impossible on providers that treat the network as one undifferentiated blob. For a project serving mostly European users, turning off the expensive Asia-Pacific regions is a real lever.

Where it fits, and where it does not

Bunny.net is a strong default when your workload is asset delivery: a static site, a documentation portal, software downloads, a media library, or images for an e-commerce catalog. Caching is straightforward, purging is fast, and the bill is predictable because it tracks bandwidth and storage rather than a dozen opaque request dimensions.

It is a weaker fit when your edge logic is the product. If you are building a heavily programmable edge — complex routing, KV-backed personalization, a large serverless surface — Cloudflare’s Workers ecosystem and Fastly’s Compute platform are more battle-tested. Edge Scripting exists and works, but you are an earlier adopter there.

The other honest caveat is vendor concentration. Bunny.net is a focused, privately held company, not a division of a trillion-dollar cloud. For a hobby project or a small business that is fine. For something where a provider outage is an existential event, weigh the savings against the comfort of a larger blast radius and an enterprise support contract.

If you would rather not manage a CDN configuration at all — and for a marketing site or portfolio that is a reasonable call — a hosted platform that bakes global delivery into the product removes the decision entirely.

For everything else — the projects where you do want to own caching behavior and you care about the per-gigabyte number — Bunny.net earns the trial. Point a Pull Zone at your origin, serve a few real assets through it, and watch the dashboard for a week. The pricing claim is easy to verify with your own traffic, which is the only test that matters.