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Bunny CDN costs $1 to $9.50 per month as of May 2026. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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+70% above list price
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Bunny CDN true cost runs 70% above the listed $1-$9.5/month price as of May 2026. For a 25-person team, expect ~$510 in year-one costs vs the $300 base license. Key hidden costs: bot/ddos traffic overages, monthly minimum account fee, shield waf false positives and tuning overhead. Verified from 2 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

1

Bot/DDoS Traffic Overages

high overage

Bunny CDN bills on usage-based bandwidth consumption with no rate limiting enabled by default on pull zones. A bot attack or DDoS flood targeting a pull zone can generate hundreds of requests per second and rapidly exhaust a prepaid balance, resulting in unexpected charges. At least one user reported $40 in charges within a few hours from a basic repeated-resource bot attack before receiving any alert.

trustpilot

Someone has targeted my CDN and requested the same resource ~100 times per second for hours, until my budget became negative and I got an alert from Bunny to top up. Such a simple attack cost me $40 in a few hours. Bunny is a toy that I would not recommend to anyone. To not have such a simple protection in place by default is a joke.

2

Monthly Minimum Account Fee

low addon

Bunny CDN charges a $1 minimum monthly fee simply for maintaining an active account, regardless of whether any bandwidth, storage, or streaming resources are actually used. Users who sign up but do not configure any pull zones or storage still incur this charge.

trustpilot

Billing 1 dollar for just have an account, serious ? I have nothing on it, no stream, no cdn no nothing, charge 1 dollar for what ? This is a scam company

3

Shield WAF False Positives and Tuning Overhead

medium addon

Bunny's Shield WAF/security add-on is reported to generate heavy false positives that block legitimate users, APIs, and internal services. Users report spending weeks manually whitelisting rules to restore basic site functionality, with some needing to disable the majority of Shield rules to stop false blocks. This represents hidden time and potential downtime cost for any team relying on Shield for security.

trustpilot

I've wasted over a month trying to get bunny.net Shield to work without it nuking my entire website. This thing is absolutely the worst. It blocks legit users, APIs, even internal services for no clear reason and gives you zero useful info about what's going on.

trustpilot

their shield product seems to be blocking mostly legitimate requests, based on my servers logs and the ones provided in the dashboard. I could understand if I was running some exotic software, but even bog standard login forms are getting blocked. Having to disable 80% of the rules to disable the false positives isn't really the WAF I needed.

4

Bunny Optimizer Reliability Risk

medium addon

The Bunny Optimizer add-on is billed at a fixed monthly fee but has experienced extended outages. One user reported the feature non-functional for at least 45 days with no deployed fix, meaning they were paying the monthly fee for a feature that was not working.

trustpilot

Optimizer doesn't work since May 9, and you guys can't fix it since. I'm just curious, how is it even possible? It's been 45 days you can't fix a feature you're taking money for.

Example: True Cost for 25 Users

License (25 × $1 × 12) $300/yr
Bot/DDoS Traffic Overages +5-50% of normal monthly costs during an attack period
Monthly Minimum Account Fee +$1/month
Shield WAF False Positives and Tuning Overhead +5-15% of license costs
Bunny Optimizer Reliability Risk +$9.50/month
Estimated Year 1 Total ~$510
That's roughly 1.7× the advertised license price. The median Bunny CDN contract is $2,920/yr across 8 Vendr purchases.

Frequently Asked Questions

01 What hidden costs should I budget for with Bunny CDN?

Beyond the license fee, budget for: Bot/DDoS Traffic Overages (5-50% of normal monthly costs during an attack period); Monthly Minimum Account Fee ($1/month); Shield WAF False Positives and Tuning Overhead (5-15% of license costs); Bunny Optimizer Reliability Risk ($9.50/month). Total ownership typically runs 70% higher than the listed price.

02 Does Bunny CDN charge for implementation?

Bunny CDN doesn't include implementation in the license cost. Implementation is typically done by partners and costs range from $5,000 for basic setup to $100,000+ for enterprise deployments with customization.

03 How much does Bunny CDN support cost?

Basic support is included, but premium support (faster response times, 24/7 availability) typically adds 15-20% to your annual contract. This can be thousands of dollars per year for larger deployments.

04 Are there overage or storage costs with Bunny CDN?

Bunny CDN bills on usage-based bandwidth consumption with no rate limiting enabled by default on pull zones. A bot attack or DDoS flood targeting a pull zone can generate hundreds of requests per second and rapidly exhaust a prepaid balance, resulting in unexpected charges. Estimated impact: 5-50% of normal monthly costs during an attack period.

05 What add-ons cost extra with Bunny CDN?

Many features marketed as part of Bunny CDN are actually add-ons: advanced reporting, API access, integrations, and specialized modules. Each can add $10-$100+ per user per month.

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