Bunny.net vs Xata
Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching, zero-downtime schema changes + OpenAI embeddings
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
Xata
Free
$0. 15GB storage. 10 branches. Unlimited databases. Community support.
Free
Pro
$20/mo + usage. More compute, higher concurrency, priority support.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, dedicated support, VPC peering, SOC 2.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net vs free on Xata.
| Metric | Bunny.net | Xata |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Xata · 11 features
- Ask Xata (OpenAI) — Natural language Q&A over data.
- Branching — Copy-on-write DB branches.
- DB Metrics — Query perf + connection metrics.
- Migration GUI — Visual schema change workflow.
- pgroll Migrations — Zero-downtime schema evolution via views.
- PITR Backups — Point-in-time restore.
- PR Preview Environments — Branch-per-PR with CI integration.
- Search — Built-in full-text search indexing.
- Vanilla Postgres — Unmodified Postgres 15+.
- Vector Search — pgvector-based embeddings + Q&A.
- Xata Copilot — AI SQL + schema assistant.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Bunny.net | Xata |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | pgroll CLI (OSS), xata CLI |
| SDK | bunnycdn.js (community) | @xata.io/client (TS), xata (Python) |
| REST | Bunny.net API | Xata REST API |
| OTHER | Bunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge Scripting | Direct Postgres (pgroll), Xata Dashboard |
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