How bunny.net's CDN, storage, streaming and edge compute platform is priced, its core products, founding history, pros, cons and frequently asked questions.
bunny.net's founding story is a common one in infrastructure software: a developer, Dejan Grofelnik Pelzel, was frustrated by how expensive and inflexible existing CDN providers were for smaller projects, and started conceptualizing an alternative around 2012. That idea became a formally incorporated company in 2015, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, launched initially as BunnyCDN with a modest network of eight points of presence and a clear positioning around cost transparency and developer-friendliness rather than enterprise sales cycles.
Over the following decade, the company expanded its network to well over 100 points of presence across roughly 80 countries and broadened well beyond pure content delivery. The rebrand from BunnyCDN to bunny.net reflected that broader scope: the company now offers object storage, video streaming, image optimization, DNS, and edge compute products alongside its original CDN, positioning itself as a full edge infrastructure platform rather than a single-product CDN vendor.
bunny.net's CDN remains its anchor product, available in two pricing structures: a Standard Network with region-based per-gigabyte pricing that is cheapest in North America and Europe, and a Volume Network offering a flat global rate aimed at very high-bandwidth customers who prefer pricing simplicity over regional granularity. Bunny Storage, the company's object storage offering, is billed per gigabyte per month across HDD and SSD tiers, with the notable advantage of free internal data transfer between Bunny Storage and Bunny's CDN, avoiding a common hidden egress cost when storage and CDN come from different vendors.
On the compute side, bunny.net offers serverless edge functions priced per request and per unit of CPU time for lightweight logic running close to users, and Magic Containers, a newer product that runs standard Docker containers across the edge network without requiring code to be rewritten for a proprietary serverless runtime -- a meaningfully different approach from most edge compute platforms that require adapting to a specific function format. Bunny Stream adds video hosting and adaptive streaming, and Bunny Optimizer provides on-the-fly image resizing and compression, rounding the platform out for media-heavy sites.
Unlike most SaaS products, bunny.net does not sell a small number of named subscription tiers; instead, essentially every product bills on consumption -- gigabytes transferred, gigabytes stored, requests served, or compute seconds used -- with a nominal $1/month account minimum. This makes cost highly dependent on actual usage patterns rather than a flat plan fee, which tends to favor bunny.net for projects with variable or growing traffic, since there is no need to pre-commit to a tier or renegotiate a contract as usage scales.
This pricing approach, combined with self-serve sign-up and no long-term contract requirement, has made bunny.net a popular choice for independent developers, small and mid-sized SaaS companies, and bandwidth-heavy sites such as blogs, e-commerce stores, and video platforms that are price-sensitive at scale and want to avoid the enterprise sales cycles and opaque custom pricing common among larger incumbent CDN providers like Akamai or Fastly.
bunny.net uses usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing across nearly all its products rather than fixed monthly subscription tiers, billing by gigabytes transferred or stored, requests served, or compute time used, with a $1/month account minimum.
The Standard Network uses region-based per-gigabyte pricing that is cheapest in North America and Europe, while the Volume Network offers a flat global rate aimed at very high-bandwidth projects that prefer pricing simplicity.
Yes, bunny.net is the rebranded, expanded version of the original BunnyCDN product, reflecting the company's growth from a single CDN product into a full edge platform including storage, streaming, image optimization, DNS and compute.
bunny.net is headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where the company was formally incorporated in 2015 after founder Dejan Grofelnik Pelzel began developing the idea around 2012.
No, internal data transfer between Bunny Storage and Bunny CDN zones is free, which avoids a hidden egress cost common when storage and CDN come from different vendors.
Magic Containers is bunny.net's edge compute product that runs standard Docker containers across its global edge network, letting developers deploy existing containerized applications without rewriting them for a proprietary serverless function format.
Yes, Bunny Stream provides video upload, encoding, and adaptive streaming delivery built on top of bunny.net's CDN infrastructure.
Yes, bunny.net applies a $1/month account minimum, but beyond that there are no long-term contracts required and customers pay only for actual usage.