A 310 Tbps video-first CDN that moves adult traffic at $3.96/TB without flinching — excellent engineering and support, zero referral program, and a $990/month floor that shuts out small tubes.
since 2011
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Best CDN & Video Delivery in 2026
bunny.net and CDN77 lead for adult video delivery in 2026. bunny.net permits legal adult content in writing and starts at $0.005/GB on its volume network; CDN77 publishes a $990/month plan covering 250 TB on a 310 Tbps network built for video. Most household-name CDNs still will not take the niche.
Two years of consolidation rewrote this category. Edgio — 300 PoPs, clients the size of Prime Video — went dark on 15 January 2025 after its Chapter 11; StackPath quit CDN in 2024; Lumen sold off its delivery business before that. The mid-market is gone, and with it several providers that quietly tolerated adult traffic. What is left is a short list, and I treat the acceptable-use policy as the first filter, not the last: a network being 20% cheaper means nothing if the abuse desk can terminate you for vaguely-defined objectionable content with a day's notice.
Right now two names do most of the work. bunny.net is the rare CDN that puts it in writing — its acceptable-use policy explicitly accepts legal adult content — and the pricing is published, not negotiated: $0.01/GB in Europe and North America on the standard network, $0.005/GB on the volume tier for the first 500 TB, sliding to $0.002/GB past a petabyte. For a tube-style site pushing 200 TB a month, that tiering is the difference between a four-figure invoice and a five-figure one. CDN77 sits a rung up: $990/month for 250 TB on its published Growth plan ($3.96/TB overage), custom contracts beyond that, and a long history carrying high-volume video. Gcore rounds out my shortlist, mainly for its Asia and Middle East PoPs; its adult terms are negotiated case by case rather than published.
How I choose: get written confirmation that adult content is permitted (an email, not a sales call), price your actual per-region traffic mix instead of the headline rate, and test token authentication and signed URLs before launch — hotlink leeching will quietly eat 10-30% of your egress if you let it. If a provider's policy is silent on adult content, assume the answer is no and ask anyway.
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CDN77
7.5/10A 310 Tbps video-first CDN that moves adult traffic at $3.96/TB without flinching — excellent engineering and support, zero referral program, and a $990/month floor that shuts out small tubes.
since 2011
bunny.net
7.4/10The rare mainstream-grade CDN that puts adult permission in writing — $0.005/GB volume pricing and a $1 monthly minimum, with an affiliate program that's now a flat $20 bounty rather than a reason to sign up.
$20 per new paying customer (one-time)$100 minMONTHLYsince 2015
5centsCDN
5.8/10Real 1 TB-for-$2.50 video delivery with no adult ban in the ToS; the 13.5% referral program exists but is documented like an afterthought.
13.5% of referred purchasesMONTHLYsince 2012
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FAQ
Can I just use Cloudflare for an adult site?
For HTML, thumbnails and the proxy layer, yes — plenty of adult sites sit behind Cloudflare and legal adult content is not banned outright. The catch is video: Cloudflare's self-serve terms restrict pushing heavy non-HTML traffic (full-length video files) through the standard CDN, and accounts doing it get flagged. My setup on video-heavy projects is Cloudflare for the site shell and a video-permissive CDN (bunny.net or CDN77) for the actual streams.
What does video delivery actually cost at scale in 2026?
Work it per terabyte. On bunny.net's volume network, 200 TB/month costs about $1,000 ($0.005/GB); the same load on its standard EU/NA network is about $2,000. CDN77's published plan prices 250 TB at $990/month. Anything quoting $0.04/GB+ for bulk video — typical hyperscaler egress — is roughly 8x too expensive for tube economics. Past a petabyte a month, everything becomes a negotiated contract; get at least two quotes.
Do I need a full streaming platform or just a CDN?
If you already transcode to HLS/DASH yourself (ffmpeg pipelines, your own storage), a plain CDN pull zone is all you need and it is the cheapest path. If you do not want to run encoding infrastructure, managed video products like Bunny Stream bundle storage, transcoding and delivery — you pay a premium per minute stored, but you skip an entire ops discipline. I self-host encoding above roughly 50 TB/month of delivery; below that the managed premium is usually worth it.
Why does the StackPath/Edgio collapse matter to me?
Counterparty risk is now real in this category. Edgio customers had weeks to migrate when the network went offline in January 2025. My rule since: keep your origin independent of your CDN, keep DNS TTLs short, and have a second provider's pull zone configured and tested — even if it carries 0% of traffic in normal operation. Switching CDNs should be a DNS change, not a migration project.
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