Bunny.net vs Cloudflare CDN in 2026

Pick Bunny.net if you want a CDN run by an EU company, billed only for the gigabytes you serve, and happy to carry video and large downloads on its normal plans. Pick Cloudflare if you want a flat monthly plan, a free tier that bundles DNS, TLS and DDoS protection, and the widest network of the two, and a US company signing the contract is fine for you.

Bunny.net and Cloudflare at a glance

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 10 November 2026. Both list prices in US dollars.

What to compare before you switch

• Who you sign with. BunnyWay is a Slovenian company inside the EU. Cloudflare, Inc. is a US company, whatever data centre answers your visitors. See EU region vs EU company for why the company matters as much as the location.
• How the bill grows. Bunny.net charges for traffic, so a quiet month costs little and a viral one costs more. Cloudflare sells the CDN inside a plan with a set monthly price, and its plans page lists no per-GB charge for it.
• What you serve. Cloudflare's self-serve terms say video and a disproportionate share of large files need its paid media or developer services unless you're an Enterprise customer. Bunny.net says its CDN is optimized for video, and its CDN prices are per GB by region, with no separate rate for video.
• What gets cached by default. Cloudflare caches by file extension and doesn't cache HTML or JSON unless you add a rule. Plan your cache rules before you move a site that relies on cached pages.
• Where traffic is processed. On Cloudflare, choosing the data centres that decrypt your traffic and keeping logs in a region is part of the Data Localization Suite, an Enterprise-only paid add-on.
• What else sits at the edge. Both sell a WAF, DNS, storage and edge code beside the CDN. Moving only the CDN is easier than moving the whole bundle.

1. Bunny.net

Bunny.net is run by BunnyWay d.o.o. from Dunajska cesta 165 in Ljubljana. Its CDN pulls files from your origin through pull zones, and you can pin files permanently at the edge with Perma-Cache and write Edge Rules for delivery, security and routing. The network page lists more than 30 PoPs in Europe and a backbone of more than 250 Tbps. Storage, video streaming, image optimization, DNS, edge scripting and the Shield security layer are sold beside it.

For GDPR, Bunny.net says it usually acts as a data processor, stores visitor logs with anonymized IP addresses, and keeps its data processing agreement in the account panel.

• Best for: teams that want an EU company, usage-based billing and a CDN that also carries video and downloads.
• Price: a $1 monthly minimum. The standard network costs $0.01 per GB in Europe and North America, $0.03 in Asia and Oceania, $0.045 in South America and $0.06 in the Middle East and Africa. The volume network charges $0.005 per GB for the first 500 TB, $0.004 up to 1 PB and $0.002 from 1 PB to 2 PB. There's no fee per request, you can set a monthly bandwidth limit to cap the bill, and new accounts get a 14-day trial.
• What it lacks: a free plan after the trial, and prices in euros.

2. Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. is based at 101 Townsend St in San Francisco. Every plan, Free included, comes with DNS, unmetered DDoS protection, the CDN and a Universal SSL certificate. Its network page counts 348 cities, 57 of them in Europe.

• Best for: sites that want a fixed monthly cost, a free starting point and DDoS protection in the same account as DNS.
• Price: Free at $0 a month. Pro at $20 a month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly. Business at $200 a month billed yearly or $250 billed monthly. Contract plans are priced by sales.
• What it lacks: an EU company to sign with. Regional processing and metadata kept in a region come only with the Enterprise Data Localization Suite. Video and large files on self-serve plans need its paid services.

A cost example

Say you serve 5 TB a month, all to visitors in Europe. On Bunny.net's standard network that's 5,000 GB at $0.01, so about $50 a month, or $25 on the volume network if its 10 PoPs are enough for you. On Cloudflare, a site of mostly HTML, scripts and images can sit on the Free or Pro plan, whose prices list no per-GB charge. If those 5 TB are video, Cloudflare's terms send you to its paid media products, so price those before comparing.

For the other European CDNs, such as Gcore, Myra Security and OVHcloud, see European CDN providers.

Where Eurobase fits

Eurobase isn't a CDN, and it doesn't compete with either one on network size. It hosts the app itself on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, from a business registered in Warsaw, Poland. For apps on V8 isolates, it answers a request from a stored copy when your response sends s-maxage or CDN-Cache-Control, and you can purge stored copies. See the cache docs.

When most of your visitors are in Europe, that cache can be enough on its own. When they're spread worldwide, put Bunny.net or Cloudflare in front of your Eurobase domain like any other origin. Eurobase doesn't hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 yet; both are in progress.

How to choose

1. Want an EU contract and EU data handling on a self-serve plan? Choose Bunny.net.
2. Serving video, game files or software downloads without an Enterprise deal? Bunny.net's per-GB pricing covers it.
3. Want one fixed bill and a free tier with DNS and DDoS protection? Choose Cloudflare.
4. Need Cloudflare but with traffic processed only in the EU? Budget for an Enterprise contract and its Data Localization Suite.
5. Already on Cloudflare Workers or Pages? Moving only the CDN leaves your code where it is. See Cloudflare Workers alternatives in Europe.

Frequently asked questions

Is Bunny.net cheaper than Cloudflare?

It depends on volume. Bunny.net costs $0.01 per GB in Europe and North America with a $1 monthly minimum, so a small site pays a few dollars a month. Cloudflare's Free plan costs nothing and Pro is $20 a month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly, with no per-GB charge on its plans page, so for steady traffic of mostly web pages Cloudflare can work out cheaper. For video and large files, compare against Cloudflare's paid media services, not the Free plan.

Is Bunny.net GDPR compliant?

Bunny.net is run by a Slovenian company inside the EU, says it acts as a data processor, anonymizes IP addresses in visitor logs and offers a data processing agreement in its panel. You still need your own legal basis and a signed DPA. Its PoPs are worldwide, so visitors outside Europe are served from outside Europe.

Can I use Cloudflare and keep data in the EU?

Only partly on standard plans. Cloudflare serves requests from the data centre nearest the visitor. Limiting which data centres decrypt traffic and where logs and metadata are stored is part of its Data Localization Suite, which is an Enterprise-only paid add-on.

Does Bunny.net have DDoS protection like Cloudflare?

Yes. Bunny.net includes DDoS protection at the network edge and sells Bunny Shield, a WAF with rate limiting and bot mitigation that has a free basic tier. For a wider comparison, see DDoS protection in Europe and WAF for web apps.

Can I switch from Cloudflare to Bunny.net without downtime?

In most cases. Create a pull zone that points at your origin, test it before any visitor reaches it, rebuild your cache rules and redirects as Bunny.net Edge Rules, and only then change the DNS record for your site. If Cloudflare also hosts your DNS, you can keep it there and only change the record.

Sources

• Bunny CDN pricing, Bunny.net network, Bunny CDN and Bunny.net terms
• Bunny.net GDPR and Bunny Shield
• Cloudflare plans and Cloudflare network
• Cloudflare default cache behavior
• Cloudflare service-specific terms
• Cloudflare Data Localization Suite
• Cloudflare website terms
• Eurobase cache docs and Eurobase subprocessors