Bunny Stream pricing
Bunny Stream charges by the gigabyte: you pay for the storage your encoded videos occupy and for the data viewers download, at a rate set by delivery tier and region, with no plan fee.
Delivery rates per GB, by region
Each video library sits on one delivery tier. The Standard network has 119 locations and charges by the region that serves each viewer. The Volume network has 10 locations and charges one worldwide rate. The right-hand column prices the 10,000-play month from the sales video example below, about 788 GB of delivery.
| Tier and region | Per GB | 10,000 plays |
|---|---|---|
| Volume, worldwide (first 500 TB) | $0.005 | $3.94 |
| Standard, Europe and North America | $0.010 | $7.88 |
| Standard, Asia and Oceania | $0.030 | $23.63 |
| Standard, South America | $0.045 | $35.44 |
| Standard, Middle East and Africa | $0.060 | $47.25 |
Storage is billed apart from delivery: $0.01 per GB in the default Frankfurt region, another $0.01 for a second replication region and $0.005 for each region after that. A replication region cannot be removed once it is switched on, so add one only where your buyers are. The Volume rate keeps falling past 500 TB a month, a level few sales funnels reach.
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How Bunny Stream bills
Two meters make up the bill. Storage counts every file a video produces during encoding, so each resolution you enable, the MP4 fallback and a kept original all add gigabytes. Delivery counts the bandwidth your viewers pull, priced by the tier the video library runs on and, on the Standard tier, by the region that serves each viewer. The player, standard encoding and the security features carry no fee of their own.
What a 20-minute sales video costs
The assumptions: one 20-minute VSL, stored in one region at about 1.5 GB once its default resolutions are encoded, streamed at an average 1.5 Mbps. Viewers watch 35% of it on average, so each play pulls about 79 MB. Delivery is priced on the Volume tier.
| Plays a month | GB delivered | Storage | Delivery | Monthly bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 plays | 79 | $0.02 | $0.39 | $1 minimum |
| 10,000 plays | 788 | $0.02 | $3.94 | $3.95 |
| 100,000 plays | 7,875 | $0.02 | $39.38 | $39.39 |
Storage barely registers for a single sales video, because it is stored once and watched thousands of times. Delivery is the line to plan for. On the Standard tier, every viewer outside Europe and North America raises it, and a buyer in the Gulf costs twelve times the Volume rate per gigabyte. My call for a sales funnel is Volume, which Bunny's own documentation describes as the tier for large files such as video, at half the cheapest Standard rate. Move to Standard only if playback tests in a market you buy traffic in show a slow start.
Three extras sit outside the two meters. Premium Encoding is charged per minute of output. AI transcription costs $0.10 per language for each minute of video, so captions for a 20-minute VSL in three languages come to $6, charged once. MediaCage Enterprise DRM costs $99 a month per library plus a fee for each license issued. Few public sales videos need it.
What works
- The cheapest delivery on this list by a wide margin. Encoding, the player and the security layer cost nothing extra, so the bill is just the gigabytes stored and served. Course owners on Reddit report bills under $10 a month after leaving a plan-based host.
- Usage sets the bill. You pay for the traffic you actually use, which fits an unpredictable launch better than a fixed monthly tier.
- Built for developers: a resumable upload API and adaptive HLS you can drop into any player of your choice. Signed tokens and hotlink protection come included, and only enterprise-grade DRM is billed separately.
What to watch
- It is raw video delivery. You build the CTAs, conversion analytics and sales tracking yourself, or add another tool.
- The product is built for developers. Long-term users describe the API and dashboard as less mature than Vimeo's or Wistia's, so a non-technical marketer will feel the gaps.
- Regional playback can vary. Reports include slow playback in some regions, a serious complaint about lost video files, and two Stream incidents in September 2026. Keep your own master files and test playback in your buyers' regions before you migrate.
Pricing questions
- Does Bunny Stream charge per view or per GB?
- Per gigabyte. Plays, viewers and watch minutes are not counted as such; the bill follows the data stored and the data sent.
- What is the difference between Bunny Stream storage and delivery charges?
- Storage is the space your library takes up during the month, including every rendition Bunny creates. Delivery is the data your viewers download. On a sales video watched thousands of times, delivery makes up nearly all of the cost.
- How does the $1 monthly minimum work?
- It applies to your whole bunny.net account. When a month's usage comes to less than a dollar, Bunny bills a dollar. Above that you pay for usage alone.
- Why is my storage bigger than the file I uploaded?
- Bunny keeps each enabled resolution as its own file, and MP4 fallback, a kept original, thumbnails, preview animations and captions add to it. Changing those settings only affects later uploads. Bunny's cleanup endpoint deletes renditions older videos no longer need.
- How can I lower my Bunny Stream delivery cost?
- Put the library on the Volume tier, or switch off the Standard regions you do not sell into. Both are settings in the dashboard.
- Is there a Bunny Stream free trial?
- Yes. Bunny offers 14 days free, and signing up needs no credit card.
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