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Bunny.net: DAM software reviewed

A CDN and edge-computing platform bundling storage, video streaming, DNS and image optimization, aimed at developers and cost-conscious teams as an alternative to larger CDN providers.

Verdict

Buy it when price and easy setup matter more than a mature DNS product — Bunny DNS is still beta.

Published price

Yes

Primarily pay-as-you-go per GB of bandwidth/storage (CDN from $0.01/GB standard, volume network from $0.005/GB down to $0.002/GB; Storage from $0.01/GB standard tier, $0.02/GB edge SSD tier; Stream storage from $0.01/GB and CDN from $0.005/GB), with a $1/month account minimum. Bunny Optimizer is a flat $9.50/month per website (unlimited optimizations). No per-request fees. Enterprise-scale volume (above 2PB) requires contacting sales.

Deployment

Cloud

vendor cloud

Last verified

19 Aug 2026

on the vendor’s own pages

Buy it if

You need pay-as-you-go, usage-billed cloud infrastructure for delivering, storing, transcoding, and optimizing media at global scale (CDN + object storage + video streaming + image/CSS/JS optimization) with published, self-serve pricing and no request fees.

Do not buy it if

You need an actual digital/media asset management system with cataloguing, metadata search, approval workflows, brand portals, or rights/licensing tracking — Bunny.net's own site describes infrastructure (delivery, storage, transcoding, DRM, watermarking) and does not document DAM-style asset organization, versioning (explicitly unsupported in its S3-compatible storage layer), approval workflows, or portals.

Where it is strong

  • Publishes per-GB CDN rates on the site ($0.01/GB in Europe and North America, $0.005/GB on the Volume network) with a $1 monthly minimum, so a budget can be sized before signup — Vendor pricing page
  • Edge Storage is priced per replication region — $0.01/GB on HDD, $0.02/GB on SSD — with up to 9 or 15 regions selectable per zone — Vendor storage page
  • Bills bandwidth only with no per-request fees, so workloads with millions of small objects are not metered twice — Vendor pricing page
  • Cache purging is exposed through the API, which reviewers wire into deploy pipelines rather than clicking through a console — G2, 512 reviews
  • Carries 4.8/5 across 512 G2 reviews with entries as recent as August 2026, so the sample is current rather than a launch-period spike — G2, 512 reviews

Where it is weak

  • The S3-compatible storage layer does not support object versioning, so an overwrite destroys the previous file with no rollback — Vendor storage/API docs
  • Nothing in the product documents a catalogue layer: no metadata schema, saved searches, collections, approval steps or brand portals — Vendor product pages
  • The DNS service is still shipped as beta and long-tail commentary describes it as lagging the rest of the stack — Informal web mentions (long tail)
  • No verified-tier presence at all — neither Gartner Peer Insights nor TrustRadius carries a bunny.net listing to cross-check G2 against — Gartner Peer Insights / TrustRadius searches
  • The Optimizer add-on is called out as priced above comparable standalone image services — Informal web mentions (long tail)

Checkable facts

Published price Yes
Billed on Primarily pay-as-you-go per GB of bandwidth/storage (CDN from $0.01/GB standard, volume network from $0.005/GB down to $0.002/GB; Storage from $0.01/GB standard tier, $0.02/GB edge SSD tier; Stream storage from $0.01/GB and CDN from $0.005/GB), with a $1/month account minimum. Bunny Optimizer is a flat $9.50/month per website (unlimited optimizations). No per-request fees. Enterprise-scale volume (above 2PB) requires contacting sales.
Free plan No
Free trial No

Product signals

Formats supported Input (Bunny Optimizer dynamic image processing): JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TGA, PBM, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF. Output: JPEG ("best for photographs without transparency"), PNG ("best for graphics, logos, or images requiring transparency"), WebP (25-35% better compression than JPEG, max 16,383px on either dimension), GIF ("simple animations or limited-color graphics"), AVIF (superior compression, capped at 4 megapixels max area — larger images auto-fall back to WebP/JPEG/GIF; AVIF does not support animation, converting animated source loses animation data). Docs recommend WebP as the default best overall balance of compression/quality/compatibility/performance.
Integrations Storage-side: connects to Bunny Storage zones (native object storage) which feed Pull Zones for CDN delivery; Optimizer runs as a layer on Pull Zones, no separate connector config needed beyond enabling it on a zone. Platform-wide (not Optimizer-specific): official WordPress plugin (bunnycdn on wordpress.org) for CDN offload; RESTful Core API with SDKs/docs for TypeScript, PHP, .NET, Java for Storage and zone management; sits alongside Bunny's own Stream (video), DNS, and Shield (security) products under one account.
Last release Site-wide latest changelog entry (2026-08-01): "Connect a Bunny Database from the Edge Scripting creation flow" (not Optimizer-specific). Most recent Optimizer-specific entries: 2026-06-26 "AVIF, HEIC and HEIF are now GA" (advanced format support promoted from beta to general availability); 2026-06-08 "AVIF output area limit" (capped AVIF processing at 4 megapixels, oversized images fall back to other formats); 2026-04-30 "AVIF support" (added AVIF as input/output format); 2026-04-28 "Image Upscaling" (new upscaling parameter to enlarge beyond original dimensions). Changelog is actively maintained, most recent entry ~1 week before this audit date. — changelog
API depth Full REST API (Core Platform API at api.bunny.net, AccessKey-header auth) covering account-level resources: Pull Zones (incl. Optimizer settings per zone), Storage Zones, DNS Zones, Stream video libraries, statistics, billing, purge, API keys, and reference data. This is a genuine account/infrastructure-management API (create/configure/delete zones and storage programmatically), not a decorative single-endpoint integration — but note it manages CDN/storage/DNS infrastructure rather than DAM-style asset metadata/tagging/user-permission objects, since Bunny Optimizer is an image-processing layer on a CDN product, not a DAM. — API docs

Checked against the Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine unreachable via WebFetch in this environment — not checked.

Reviews, by how much to trust them

Verified tier: no dedicated bunny.net (Bunny CDN) page found on Gartner Peer Insights or TrustRadius — Verified tier is empty for this vendor. Incentivized tier: G2 confirmed via direct browser visit (previously WebFetch-blocked with 403) at 4.8/5 from 512 reviews, ranked #1 Grid Leader in its Content Delivery Network category — real recent reviews (Aug 2026) praise ease of setup, API-driven cache purging, and price versus larger CDN providers. Capterra confirmed directly at 5.0/5 from only 3 reviews — too thin a sample to weigh heavily; per project rule, G2 and Capterra share common ownership since 05.02.2026 and count as one incentivized source family, not two independent ones. Long tail: informal web mentions note the Bunny DNS service (beta) 'needs work' and that Optimizer pricing 'could be more competitive', alongside long-time users reporting no negatives after years of use — not tied to a specific verifiable review page.

Sold as

Media API / CDN

Verified features

AI tagging Video transcoding and previews Rights and licence expiry Public API Watermarking

Compare Bunny.net with others

Sources

  • Bunny CDN publishes per-GB prices: Standard network $0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa); Volume network tiered from $0.005/GB (first 500TB) down to $0.002/GB (1-2PB), with sales contact required above 2PB; $1/month minimum; no request fees. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny.net Pricing page
  • Bunny CDN is a cloud-based, fully managed platform with 119 global PoPs, 250 Tbps+ network capacity, Perma-Cache, SmartEdge routing, SafeHop, DDoS protection, and a RESTful API; no on-premise or self-hosted deployment option is described. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny CDN product page
  • Bunny Storage is a managed cloud object storage service with global replication across up to 15 regions, FTP/SFTP/HTTP API/web file manager access, 99.99% availability SLA, and priced at $0.01/GB (Standard/HDD, first two regions) or $0.005/GB per additional region, and $0.02/GB (Edge/SSD tier), with a $1/month minimum; free API egress and requests. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny Storage product page
  • Bunny Storage's S3-compatible API does not yet support object versioning. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny.net Storage S3 compatibility documentation
  • Bunny Optimizer automatically resizes/compresses/converts images (up to 80% compression via WebP), minifies CSS/JS, and offers a Transform API for on-the-fly image resize/crop; priced at a flat $9.50/month per website with unlimited optimizations (CDN bandwidth billed separately). checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny Optimizer product page
  • Bunny Optimizer can automatically apply watermarks to images during optimization for branding or IP protection. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny.net Optimizer watermarking documentation
  • Bunny Stream includes free transcoding/transcaching, an 'AI Content Tagging' feature, Enterprise Multi-DRM (Media Cage) for content protection against download/screen recording/screenshots, hotlinking protection and token authentication, a customizable player, and API/webhook management; storage from $0.01/GB and CDN bandwidth from $0.005/GB, with transcoding, player, and security free. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny Stream product page
  • Bunny Stream supports video watermarking, applied to videos during encoding once enabled in a video library's settings. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny.net Stream watermark API documentation
  • Transcribe AI automatically transcribes and captions videos during transcoding, with translations available in up to 57 languages, plus meeting notes/summaries and video insight extraction. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny Stream Transcribe AI page
  • Bunny.net's sitemap contains no dedicated pages for industries such as education, museum, newsroom, government, healthcare, AEC, ecommerce, agency, manufacturing, nonprofit, sports, or photographer; its 'Solutions' pages are organized by use case (CDN security, gaming CDN, software distribution, video delivery, website acceleration, WordPress CDN) rather than named verticals. checked 2026-08-07 — Bunny.net sitemap.xml
  • Input format list (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TGA, PBM, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF) checked 2026-08-09 — Bunny.net Docs — Optimizer Dynamic Images: Formats
  • Changelog latest site-wide entry (2026-08-01) and four most recent Optimizer-specific entries (AVIF/HEIC/HEIF GA 2026-06-26; AVIF output area limit 2026-06-08; AVIF support 2026-04-30; Image Upscaling 2026-04-28) checked 2026-08-09 — Bunny.net Docs — Changelog
  • Core Platform API is RESTful, AccessKey-header auth, covers Pull Zones, Storage Zones, DNS Zones, Stream libraries, stats, billing, purge, API keys, reference data checked 2026-08-09 — Bunny.net Docs — Core API Reference
  • Official WordPress CDN plugin exists for Bunny; RESTful API with SDKs in TypeScript/PHP/.NET/Java for Storage checked 2026-08-09 — WordPress.org — bunny.net CDN Plugin
  • G2 average rating 4.8/5 from 453 reviews, Grid Leader / #1-in-category (via search snippet; direct fetch returned 403) checked 2026-08-09 — G2 — bunny.net
  • Capterra rating 5.0/5 from 3 reviews, praising speed/affordability/ease of use checked 2026-08-09 — Capterra — bunny.net
  • No Gartner Peer Insights or TrustRadius vendor/product page located for bunny.net checked 2026-08-09 — Web search (Gartner Peer Insights / TrustRadius queries)
  • G2: 4.8/5 average rating from 512 reviews, #1 Grid Leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) category checked 2026-08-09 — G2 — bunny.net Products