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Bunny.net vs DigitalOcean

Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute
vs. The developer cloud — Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed DBs, App Platform

Bunny.net website ↗DigitalOcean website ↗

Pricing tiers

Bunny.net

CDN Volume — 1-2 PB
$0.002/GB at 1-2 PB volume.
$0/mo
CDN Volume — First 500 TB
$0.005/GB Volume Network (10 PoPs) for high-volume.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — EU/NA
$0.01/GB. 119 PoPs Standard Network in Europe + North America.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — Asia + Oceania
$0.03/GB.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — South America
$0.045/GB.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — ME/Africa
$0.06/GB.
$0/mo
Monthly Minimum
Minimum $1/month.
$1/mo
Bunny.net website ↗

DigitalOcean

Functions (Serverless)
Free 90k GB-sec/month. $0.0000185 per GB-sec after.
$0 base (usage-based)
App Platform — Free
Static sites free forever. 3 static sites per account.
Free
Droplet — Basic 512MB
Shared CPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. Cheapest starting tier.
$4/mo
Spaces Object Storage
$5/month — 250 GB storage + 1 TB outbound. S3-compatible.
$5/mo
App Platform — Basic
$5/month per app. 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 GB bandwidth.
$5/mo
Droplet — Basic 1GB
Shared CPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD.
$6/mo
Kubernetes (DOKS)
Starts at $12/month (1 node). Control plane free.
$12/mo
Droplet — Basic 2GB
1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer.
$12/mo
Load Balancer
$12/month. Supports HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
$12/mo
Managed Postgres — Basic
1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD. Single node.
$15/mo
Droplet — CPU Optimized
2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM dedicated. Best for CPU-bound workloads.
$42/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume discounts, dedicated support.
Custom
DigitalOcean website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net vs functions on DigitalOcean.

MetricBunny.netDigitalOcean
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Bunny.net · 14 features

  • Bunny CDN — Standard + Volume networks. 119 PoPs globally.
  • Bunny Database — Edge-distributed key-value DB.
  • Bunny DNS — Free anycast DNS.
  • Bunny Optimizer — On-the-fly image + video optimization.
  • Bunny Shield (WAF + DDoS) — DDoS protection + WAF + bot defense.
  • Bunny Stream — Video hosting + transcoding + HLS delivery.
  • Custom Hostname — Use yourdomain.com with CDN.
  • Edge Scripting — JavaScript at the edge (like CF Workers).
  • Edge Storage — Object storage replicated across regions.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — Auto cert issuance/renewal.
  • Hot-linking Protection — Block unauthorized embeds.
  • Instant Purge — Global invalidation.
  • Magic Containers — Serverless containers at edge.
  • Real-Time Analytics — Per-zone + per-country usage stats.

DigitalOcean · 14 features

  • App Platform — Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy from Git. Auto-HTTPS, auto-scale, zero-downtime deploy…
  • Backups — Weekly automated backups (20% of Droplet cost). Manual snapshots.
  • Block Storage Volumes — SSD block storage attachable to Droplets. Snapshot support.
  • DigitalOcean GenAI Platform — Managed AI agents, model-as-a-service (Llama, Mistral), knowledge bases.
  • DNS — Free DNS hosting for your domains.
  • DOKS (Kubernetes) — Managed Kubernetes. Free control plane. Node auto-repair.
  • Droplets — Virtual machines with shared or dedicated CPU. 20+ one-click Marketplace images.
  • Functions — Serverless functions. Node, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby. Pay-per-execution.
  • Load Balancers — Layer 4/7 load balancing with HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
  • Managed Databases — Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey. Automated backups + …
  • Marketplace — 300+ one-click Droplet + Kubernetes apps.
  • Monitoring — Built-in metrics + alerts for Droplets, DBs, Load Balancers.
  • Spaces — S3-compatible object storage with built-in CDN.
  • VPC — Private networking. Free. Automatic default VPC per region.

Developer interfaces

KindBunny.netDigitalOcean
CLI—doctl CLI
SDKbunnycdn.js (community)godo (Go), pydo (official py), python-digitalocean
RESTBunny.net APIDigitalOcean REST API
MCP—DigitalOcean MCP
OTHERBunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge Scripting—
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