bunny.net vs CDN77: Which Pays Better in 2026?

The two price on fundamentally different curves, and the crossover point is the whole decision. bunny.net is pure pay-as-you-go: the Volume Network starts at $0.005/GB for the first 500 TB and drops to $0.002/GB past 1 PB, while the 119-PoP Standard Network is $0.01/GB in Europe and North America with no request fees and a $1 monthly minimum. That $1 floor is the headline — you can serve a handful of clips and pay cents, then scale a terabyte at a time with no commitment. Bunny Stream layers on top at $0.01/GB storage with free encoding and a free player. The catch: Standard Network rates climb sharply outside the West — $0.03/GB in Asia, $0.06/GB in the Middle East and Africa — and the cheap Volume Network runs on only 10 PoPs.

CDN77 inverts this. There is no cents-per-GB entry point; the published floor is the Growth plan at $990/month for 250 TB, which works out to $3.96/TB — roughly $0.00396/GB, cheaper than Bunny's Volume rate, and overages bill at the same $3.96/TB so a good month isn't punished. Above 250 TB you're in unpublished Enterprise territory where petabyte operators negotiate lower. The trade is commitment and rigid billing: prepaid credit expires and is forfeited after 365 days, monthly plan funds are non-refundable and don't roll over, and wire is only entertained above $1,000. My call: below roughly 50 TB/month, Bunny's flexibility wins outright; at sustained high volume, CDN77's effective rate and negotiation room take over.

CDN77 has the heavier iron on paper. It runs 200 PoPs across 130 countries with 310 Tbps of capacity and 3,000+ directly connected ISPs, and it is unambiguously built for video: by its own numbers, 90% of delivered data is video, with named clients including STARZ, Rakuten TV and live events like Champions League and Formula 1. Cache-hit claims sit at 98%+ on video workloads, with STARZ quoted 'consistently well above 95%'. That density and interconnection is exactly what a large tube wants when it needs consistent, low-latency delivery to a global audience at scale — and DDoS mitigation is claimed under 10 seconds.

bunny.net's footprint is smaller but well-regarded: 119 PoPs on the Standard Network plus a 10-PoP Volume Network, with a self-reported 250+ Tbps backbone. The Volume/Standard split is the wrinkle to model carefully — the cheap Volume tier's 10 PoPs mean longer routes for far-flung users, so the $0.005/GB rate comes with a latency trade for non-Western traffic. On real-world performance, independent CDNperf rankings have placed Bunny at or near the top for years, so for EU and North American delivery it competes with anyone. My read: for a Western-skewed audience the two are close enough that Bunny's price wins; for a truly global or premium-live workload, CDN77's PoP density and interconnection are the safer bet. Both offer a free trial to test like-for-like — CDN77's is 14 days and 1 TB with no card — so run the latency comparison rather than trusting either PoP count.

On adult tolerance, Bunny is the safer paper trail. Its Acceptable Use Policy explicitly accepts service used by providers of 'adult content' as long as the material is legal under the laws of Slovenia and all 50 US states — the clearest written permission you'll find from a CDN with mainstream-grade infrastructure, and the single biggest reason adult webmasters keep recommending it. CDN77 offers no such written blessing: its AUP bans only illegal material (CSAM named explicitly) and simply doesn't exclude legal adult video. The network has quietly carried adult traffic for over a decade, but 'not prohibited' is a weaker guarantee than 'explicitly permitted' — a distinction worth weighing if a policy reversal would end your business. One caution on CDN77's permissiveness: parent DataCamp Limited was sued by IBCAP for $32M in 2022 over pirate IPTV on its network, the flip side of a hands-off posture.

Both ship a serious video stack. CDN77 covers HLS, MPEG-DASH, CMAF and MP4 progressive, live ingest over RTMP/RTSP/MPEG-TS with transcoding, on-the-fly encoding, multi-DRM (PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay), secure-token plus IP/geo-blocking, an HTML5 player with audience analytics, and object storage as origin at $0.02/GB. bunny.net counters with Bunny Stream: free encoding, a free player, token authentication, hotlink protection, geo-blocking, watermarking, the Media Cage anti-download layer and enterprise multi-DRM, plus TUS resumable uploads and webhooks for a scriptable ingest pipeline. Both cover the protection stack a paysite or clip store needs; the differentiator here is the policy language, not the feature list, and there Bunny is more explicit.

Support is a genuine strength at both, which is rare in this category. bunny.net sits around 4.8/5 on Trustpilot across roughly 1,370 reviews, with fast-response, 24/7, engineer-answered support the dominant theme and long-tenure operators calling it 'boring in the good sense' after four or five years. Its known rough edges are minor: no full-page HTML caching (so it won't replace a Cloudflare-style cache layer), HTTPS and pull-zone setup trips up first-timers, promotional trial credit that displayed misleadingly once expired, and a handful of Stream playback-freeze reports. Eleven years in, there's no record of account seizures or retroactive content-policy reversals — the failure modes that actually kill adult businesses. CDN77 also earns strong support marks: 24/7 with direct L2/L3 engineer access and no ticket-tier theatre, praised across Capterra, G2 and forums for proactive engineers. Its Trustpilot sample is tiny (~39 reviews) and skews toward billing complaints — prepaid-credit drain and a price move from $20 to $200/month that pushed out a small customer — which reads as CDN77 exiting the small-account business rather than systemic fraud.

On earning for the referral, neither gives you a reason to sign up. bunny.net pays a flat $20 one-time bounty per new paying customer (with a 25% bonus if taken as Bunny credits), gated behind a $100 cash-out floor via PayPal or virtual VISA, and — notably for a company this transparent on pricing — an unpublished cookie window. That's a rebate on traffic you were sending anyway, not a campaign. CDN77 has no affiliate or referral program at all; nothing on their site or the wider web. Both belong in this directory as infrastructure you buy, not as an income line you promote. Choose on price, policy and reach — the commissions are noise.