Fastly vs Bunny CDN
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Fastly and Bunny CDN built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Fastly if…
High-traffic sites where volume-discount tiers actually kick in, or teams that want CDN and edge compute (Fastly Compute) on the same platform.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Bunny CDN if…
Cost-sensitive sites serving mostly Europe/North America traffic — $0.01/GB with no request fees and a $1 monthly floor is close to the cheapest entry point in this category.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Fastly: Traffic is modest — the $1,500/month entry plan for dedicated network services is priced for scale a smaller site won't reach, where a pay-as-you-go CDN has no equivalent floor.
- Bunny CDN: Traffic skews heavily to the Middle East or Africa — the regional rate there is six times the Europe/North America price.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Fastly alternatives · Bunny CDN alternatives
15 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Fastly 0
Bunny CDN 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Fastly | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free trial |
| What the free plan includes | Fastly names a free entry point for experimenting and prototyping on usage-based pricing; the allowance figures are no longer stated on this page. | A 14-day trial with no credit card; there is no ongoing free plan. |
| Entry paid plan | Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests. | $1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top. |
| Pricing model | Usage-based with built-in volume-discount tiers — the per-GB and per-request rate falls as monthly usage rises. | Pay-as-you-go with a $1/month minimum. No request fees — billed only on bandwidth consumed. |
| Egress over allowance | North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band. | $0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa). |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Regions | 10 billing regions priced separately for Full Site Delivery bandwidth: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Mexico, North America, Saudi Arabia, South America, South Korea. | Global anycast network spanning 6 continents and 77 countries, with 119 PoPs grouped on the network map as Europe, North America, LATAM, Asia, Oceania and Middle East & Africa. |
| CDN | ||
| Points of presence | 164 POPs, counted from Fastly's own complete list of active POPs in the docs — Fastly publishes the table of POP identifiers rather than a total. | 119 points of presence on the standard network, plus a 10-PoP volume network. |
| Image optimization | Image Optimizer: first 100,000 image requests a month free, then $0.50 per 10,000 requests, with volume discounts scaling down to $0.01 per 10,000 beyond 5 billion monthly requests. | Bunny Optimizer, a separate image processing product, at a fixed $9.5/month per website regardless of traffic. |
| Compliance | ||
| ISO 27001 | Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). | ISO 27001 certified information security management; the Trust Center lists ISO 27001 under Compliance and supplies the certificate on request. |
| GDPR / data residency | Audited against key articles of the GDPR, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor. Audit scope as processor; the page states no region-pinned storage guarantee. | EU and EEA routing filters pin a Pull Zone to 24 PoPs in EU member states or 26 across the EEA, for GDPR and data-residency requirements. |
| Encryption at rest | Customer-provided private keys are encrypted at rest; disk encryption and secure boot are maintained as additional controls where deemed appropriate. | Magic Containers persistent volumes: all persistent data is AES encrypted by default. Scope is Magic Containers volumes, not the CDN cache. Feature-list bullet on the Magic Containers persistent-volumes docs page. |
| Customer-managed keys | Supported logging endpoints take a PGP public key you supply; Fastly encrypts log files with it before writing to disk and you hold the private key. Scope: streamed log files only; separate from Fastly TLS bring-your-own-certificate keys. | Not offered on the S3-compatible Bunny Storage API: SSE and SSE-C server-side encryption are listed as unsupported. Scope: Bunny Storage S3 API; no key-management statement is published for the CDN itself. |
| Role-based access control | User roles and permissions control account access; account-management roles (Superuser, User Admin, Billing) plus service-configuration roles are assigned per user. | Five account permissions assignable per team member in any combination: Manage zones, Billing & legal, Support tickets, Abuse center, Manage users. |
| Dedicated infrastructure | Dedicated anycast IPv4/IPv6 address pools assigned exclusively to a single customer, maintained and managed by Fastly across its global edge cloud platform. Scope is dedicated IP addressing on Fastly's edge platform. | bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control; this describes bunny.net's own estate, not a customer-level option. Trust Center FAQ answer on why infrastructure providers are not listed as subprocessors. |
Where they differ.
Free tier
- Fastly
- Yes
- Bunny CDN
- No
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Start building for free Experiment, prototype, and deploy with usage-based pricing on Fastly's edge platform.”
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- bunny.net Pricing ↗
“Start your 14-day free trial Join 85,000+ satisfied customers already using bunny.net Start free trial No credit card required.”
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Kind of free offer
- Fastly
- Free tier
- Bunny CDN
- Free trial
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Requests 1 Million free Billed per 10,000 Requests per Region per month Requests (per month) Monthly Price (per 10,000 Requests) 0 - 1 Million Free”
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- bunny.net Pricing ↗
“Start your 14-day free trial [...] Start free trial No credit card required.”
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What the free plan includes
- Fastly
- Fastly names a free entry point for experimenting and prototyping on usage-based pricing; the allowance figures are no longer stated on this page.
- Bunny CDN
- A 14-day trial with no credit card; there is no ongoing free plan.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Start building for free Experiment, prototype, and deploy with usage-based pricing on Fastly's edge platform.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
- bunny.net Pricing ↗
“Start your 14-day free trial [...] No credit card required.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
Entry paid plan
- Fastly
- Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests.
- Bunny CDN
- $1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Price per Month $1,500 $6,000 Contact sales Contact sales Requests per Month 100M Requests 500M Requests 2B Requests 5B Requests”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
- CDN Pricing | Affordable and Flexible Pay as You Go Pricing ↗
“$1 Monthly Minimum [...] All features included for as little as $1 per month”
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Pricing model
- Fastly
- Usage-based with built-in volume-discount tiers — the per-GB and per-request rate falls as monthly usage rises.
- Bunny CDN
- Pay-as-you-go with a $1/month minimum. No request fees — billed only on bandwidth consumed.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“only pay for what you use, with built in discounts as usage grows. [...] Usage-based, volume discounts Spend less as you use more with our built-in pricing tiers”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Bunny CDN Pricing ↗
“$1 monthly minimum. No Request Fees.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction
Egress over allowance
- Fastly
- North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band.
- Bunny CDN
- $0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa).
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Bandwidth (per month) Africa Asia Australia Europe India Mexico North America Saudi Arabia South America South Korea 0 - 100 GB Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 100 GB - 10 TB $0.28 $0.19 $0.19 $0.12 $0.28 $0.16 $0.12 $0.19 $0.19 $0.28 Next 10 TB $0.24 $0.14 $0.14 $0.08 $0.24 $0.12 $0.08 $0.14 $0.14 $0.24”
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- Bunny CDN Pricing ↗
“Europe & North America: $0.01/GB. Asia & Oceania: $0.03/GB. South America: $0.045/GB. Middle East & Africa: $0.06/GB.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction
Regions
- Fastly
- 10 billing regions priced separately for Full Site Delivery bandwidth: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Mexico, North America, Saudi Arabia, South America, South Korea.
- Bunny CDN
- Global anycast network spanning 6 continents and 77 countries, with 119 PoPs grouped on the network map as Europe, North America, LATAM, Asia, Oceania and Middle East & Africa.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Explore Fastly Pricing Tiers and Package Options | Fastly ↗
“Billed per GB per Region per month [...] Africa Asia Australia Europe India Mexico North America Saudi Arabia South America South Korea”
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- Global CDN Network | Low latency CDN with 119+ PoPs ↗
“Hop on a global network that spans 6 continents and 77 countries. [...] 119 Global PoPs”
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Points of presence
164 POPs, counted from Fastly's own complete list of active POPs in the docs — Fastly publishes the table of POP identifiers rather than a total.
119 points of presence on the standard network, plus a 10-PoP volume network.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Using Fastly's global POP network | Fastly Documentation ↗
“The following table lists all POPs current active in the Fastly network”
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- bunny.net Pricing ↗
“Bunny CDN Standard network 119 PoPs Hop on a lightning-fast global network with region-based pricing. [...] Volume network 10 PoPs”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Image optimization
- Fastly
- Image Optimizer: first 100,000 image requests a month free, then $0.50 per 10,000 requests, with volume discounts scaling down to $0.01 per 10,000 beyond 5 billion monthly requests.
- Bunny CDN
- Bunny Optimizer, a separate image processing product, at a fixed $9.5/month per website regardless of traffic.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fastly Pricing ↗
“Image Optimizer Turn image-heavy into conversion-ready Sign up for free Image Requests 100,000 free Billed per 10,000 Image Requests Image Requests (per month) Monthly Price (per 10,000 Image Requests) 0 - 100,000 Free 100,000 - 10 Million $0.50 10 Million - 50 Million $0.15 50 Million - 150 Million $0.07 150 Million - 500 Million $0.03 500 Million - 1 Billion $0.02 1 Billion - 5 Billion $0.015 Beyond 5 Billion $0.01”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Bunny Optimizer ↗
“Unlimited optimization at one fixed price. $9.5 /month per website* Eliminate expensive optimization and transformation services with a fixed monthly price regardless of your t”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
ISO 27001
- Fastly
- Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).
- Bunny CDN
- ISO 27001 certified information security management; the Trust Center lists ISO 27001 under Compliance and supplies the certificate on request.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Compliance | Fastly ↗
“Fastly is certified to the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).”
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- BunnyWay d.o.o | Trust Center ↗
“bunny.net maintains technical and organisational measures designed to protect customer data, including: ISO 27001 certified information security management [...] ISO 27001 Certificate”
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GDPR / data residency
- Fastly
- Audited against key articles of the GDPR, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor. Audit scope as processor; the page states no region-pinned storage guarantee.
- Bunny CDN
- EU and EEA routing filters pin a Pull Zone to 24 PoPs in EU member states or 26 across the EEA, for GDPR and data-residency requirements.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Compliance | Fastly ↗
“Fastly is audited against key articles of the General Data Protection Regulation, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
- Routing Filters - bunny.net Documentation ↗
“This is primarily useful for GDPR compliance and data residency requirements where you need to ensure user data stays within specific geographic boundaries. [...] Routes all traffic exclusively through 24 PoPs within EU member states [...] Routes all traffic exclusively through 26 PoPs, covering every EU PoP plus Iceland and Norway”
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Encryption at rest
- Fastly
- Customer-provided private keys are encrypted at rest; disk encryption and secure boot are maintained as additional controls where deemed appropriate.
- Bunny CDN
- Magic Containers persistent volumes: all persistent data is AES encrypted by default. Scope is Magic Containers volumes, not the CDN cache. Feature-list bullet on the Magic Containers persistent-volumes docs page.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Security program | Fastly Products ↗
“Encrypt customer-provided private keys at rest. [...] Maintain additional technical security controls, such as disk encryption and secure boot, where deemed appropriate.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Persistent Volumes - bunny.net Documentation ↗
“Encrypted by default [...] All persistent data is AES encrypted”
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Customer-managed keys
- Fastly
- Supported logging endpoints take a PGP public key you supply; Fastly encrypts log files with it before writing to disk and you hold the private key. Scope: streamed log files only; separate from Fastly TLS bring-your-own-certificate keys.
- Bunny CDN
- Not offered on the S3-compatible Bunny Storage API: SSE and SSE-C server-side encryption are listed as unsupported. Scope: Bunny Storage S3 API; no key-management statement is published for the CDN itself.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Encrypting logs | Fastly Documentation ↗
“For supported logging endpoints, Fastly allows you to encrypt your log files before they are written to disk. [...] Keep your private key safe! If you lose it, your encrypted log files will be permanently unreadable.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- S3 Compatible API - bunny.net Documentation ↗
“SSE/SSE-C encryption is not currently supported”
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Role-based access control
- Fastly
- User roles and permissions control account access; account-management roles (Superuser, User Admin, Billing) plus service-configuration roles are assigned per user.
- Bunny CDN
- Five account permissions assignable per team member in any combination: Manage zones, Billing & legal, Support tickets, Abuse center, Manage users.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- About user roles and permissions | Fastly Documentation ↗
“This guide explains user roles and permissions and how they control access to your account. [...] These roles control access to account-level configuration, user management, and billing”
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- Team Permissions - bunny.net Documentation ↗
“When you add or edit a team member, you can assign specific permissions that control what they can access in the bunny.net dashboard. [...] You can assign any combination of permissions to a team member.”
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Dedicated infrastructure
- Fastly
- Dedicated anycast IPv4/IPv6 address pools assigned exclusively to a single customer, maintained and managed by Fastly across its global edge cloud platform. Scope is dedicated IP addressing on Fastly's edge platform.
- Bunny CDN
- bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control; this describes bunny.net's own estate, not a customer-level option. Trust Center FAQ answer on why infrastructure providers are not listed as subprocessors.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- IP Addresses | Fastly ↗
“Dedicated IP addresses provide a pool of IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses, maintained and managed by Fastly, across our global edge cloud platform. [...] A dedicated IP address is an IP assigned exclusively to a single Fastly customer instead of being shared with other customers.”
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- BunnyWay d.o.o | Trust Center ↗
“bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control. Infrastructure and network providers do not process customer data on bunny.net's behalf and do not have access to bunny.net servers or customer data stored on those systems.”
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When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Fastly or Bunny CDN?
Fastly: Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests.
Bunny CDN: $1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top.
Free tier: Fastly or Bunny CDN?
Fastly: Yes
Bunny CDN: No
Egress over allowance: Fastly or Bunny CDN?
Fastly: North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band.
Bunny CDN: $0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa).
Should I choose Fastly or Bunny CDN?
Pick Fastly if High-traffic sites where volume-discount tiers actually kick in, or teams that want CDN and edge compute (Fastly Compute) on the same platform.
Pick Bunny CDN if Cost-sensitive sites serving mostly Europe/North America traffic — $0.01/GB with no request fees and a $1 monthly floor is close to the cheapest entry point in this category.
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