# Bunny Storage vs IDrive e2

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/bunny-storage-vs-idrive-e2/

Every value below is read from Bunny Storage's and IDrive e2's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | Bunny Storage | IDrive e2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egress over allowance | Free to Bunny's own CDN, and no API fees or API egress charges. Bunny prices storage by replication rather than by transfer. | Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise. |
| Storage price | $0.01 per GB per month on Standard HDD for up to two regions, then $0.005 per additional region up to nine. Edge SSD is $0.02 per GB per region across up to fifteen. Three regions on Standard is $0.025 per GB. | $0.006 per GB per month, or $6 per TB, tierless — the cheapest published rate here. SSD storage is $0.01 per GB per month. |
| Operations price | None. Bunny states no API fees. | None. IDrive e2 states no additional charges for API transactions across class A, B and C. |

## Where they differ

### Egress over allowance

- Bunny Storage: Free to Bunny's own CDN, and no API fees or API egress charges. Bunny prices storage by replication rather than by transfer. ([source](https://bunny.net/storage/))
- IDrive e2: Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise. ([source](https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing))

### Storage price

- Bunny Storage: $0.01 per GB per month on Standard HDD for up to two regions, then $0.005 per additional region up to nine. Edge SSD is $0.02 per GB per region across up to fifteen. Three regions on Standard is $0.025 per GB. ([source](https://bunny.net/storage/))
- IDrive e2: $0.006 per GB per month, or $6 per TB, tierless — the cheapest published rate here. SSD storage is $0.01 per GB per month. ([source](https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing))

### Operations price

- Bunny Storage: None. Bunny states no API fees. ([source](https://bunny.net/storage/))
- IDrive e2: None. IDrive e2 states no additional charges for API transactions across class A, B and C. ([source](https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing))

## Which should you choose?

Pick Bunny Storage if Assets served from a CDN, where paying per replicated region buys latency you would otherwise build yourself — and traffic to Bunny's CDN costs nothing.

Pick IDrive e2 if Bulk storage where the per-GB rate dominates — $6 per TB is roughly a quarter of S3's and well under Wasabi's, with no API fees and no minimum retention period.

Consider something else: Bunny Storage — Replication is the price axis, so multi-region storage costs a multiple of single-region rather than a premium, and it is a CDN origin rather than a general-purpose S3 endpoint.

Consider something else: IDrive e2 — The minimum charge is billed per whole terabyte, so a 100 GB workload pays for 1 TB, and egress is only free up to three times what you store.

## Documented by only one

- Pricing model: Bunny Storage: Per region rather than per gigabyte alone: replication is the price axis, so cost scales with how many of Bunny's regions hold a copy. True pay-as-you-go with a $1 monthly minimum and no commitments.
- Storage (entry plan): IDrive e2: None on a paid account. IDrive e2 bills a minimum of $6 per TB charged per whole terabyte, so storing under 1 TB still costs a full terabyte — a floor on the bill rather than storage you are given. A 10 GB free trial is offered separately.
- Minimum storage duration: IDrive e2: None. IDrive e2 states no minimum data retention restriction, unlike Wasabi's 90 days and the S3 infrequent-access classes' 30 to 180.
- S3-compatible API: IDrive e2: Supported

## Questions this comparison answers

**Egress over allowance: Bunny Storage or IDrive e2?**

Bunny Storage: Free to Bunny's own CDN, and no API fees or API egress charges. Bunny prices storage by replication rather than by transfer.
IDrive e2: Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise.

**Should I choose Bunny Storage or IDrive e2?**

Pick Bunny Storage if Assets served from a CDN, where paying per replicated region buys latency you would otherwise build yourself — and traffic to Bunny's CDN costs nothing.
Pick IDrive e2 if Bulk storage where the per-GB rate dominates — $6 per TB is roughly a quarter of S3's and well under Wasabi's, with no API fees and no minimum retention period.