Bunny.net

KEEP IT

The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying.

A content delivery network with edge storage, image optimisation and video streaming, priced well below the large providers.

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You cannot build a CDN. Make sure you need one first.

THE HONEST QUESTION
- Are your users in one country? Then one well-configured server with good cache headers may be enough

WHAT TO DO BEFORE PAYING ANYONE
- Set Cache-Control properly: immutable for hashed assets, short with revalidation for HTML
- Serve Brotli, and precompress at build rather than on request
- HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, and no render-blocking third-party request

IF YOU DO NEED ONE
- Cloudflare's free tier covers static assets for most sites
- Compare on egress price, not on features; that is where the money is

WHAT NEVER WORKS
- A second server in another country with DNS round-robin. It routes badly and fails badly

Include the cache headers, the compression build step and the measurement.

What you lose

Servers in dozens of cities, which is the entire product and cannot be built
Bandwidth costs far below what you would pay a cloud provider directly
Edge caching rules and purging without you running anything

If you would rather not build

Cloudflare's free tier
Proper cache headers on your own server
Any object storage with a CDN in front

The escape hatch

open source · no votes, no paid placement

Varnish

A caching reverse proxy for one location; not a substitute for a network.

varnishcache/varnish-cachefree · open source

Caddy

Automatic TLS and sensible caching defaults on your own server.

caddyserver/caddyfree · open source

Why this verdict

our own opinion · changed only by a person

22/100

Verdict no at 22. A CDN is physical infrastructure. The useful work is making sure you need one, and most small sites do not.

History

tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten

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Questions about Bunny.net

answered from the record above

Is Bunny.net free?

No — the plan we track is $10 a month. Pay as you go from around $0.01 per gigabyte with a $10 minimum monthly spend.

Can you replace Bunny.net by building your own?

KEEP IT. The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying. Replacement score 22 out of 100, build time longer than it saves. Read what you lose before you decide.

How much does Bunny.net cost?

$10 a month on Pay as you go — $120 a year. Recorded 10 Aug 2026.

What do you lose by replacing Bunny.net?

Servers in dozens of cities, which is the entire product and cannot be built; Bandwidth costs far below what you would pay a cloud provider directly; Edge caching rules and purging without you running anything. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Bunny.net?

Yes: Varnish, Caddy. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.

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