Bunny.net

Bunny.net is the Bulgarian-founded CDN and video platform that's become the go-to for cost-conscious technical teams who want infrastructure pricing without the AWS-level complexity. As of May 2026, the Standard Network CDN costs $0.01/GB in Europe and North America (more in other regions), with the Volume Network offering a single global rate from $0.005/GB dropping to $0.002/GB at petabyte scale.

Bunny Stream, their video CDN, charges $0.01/GB for storage with transcoding and the player both included free. For 300GB of stored video with 50GB of monthly traffic, you're looking at roughly $3.50/month.

There's a $1/month minimum across CDN plans. For podcasters, Bunny is most relevant for two scenarios. First, video podcasts with significant traffic where the per-GB economics of Mux or Wistia start to bite.

Second, self-hosted audio shows where you want full control over the delivery layer and aren't tied to a host like Buzzsprout or Captivate. The features stack is full: HTTP/3, instant cache purge, token authentication, geo-blocking, and real-time analytics on every plan.

The trade-off is the obvious one: this is infrastructure, not a podcast host. There's no RSS generator, no episode artwork management, no chapter markers, no integration with Apple Podcasts or Spotify metadata.

You build that yourself, or you use Bunny as the delivery layer underneath something else. For technical teams running a custom stack, it's a no-brainer; for most podcasters, it's a substrate they'll never touch directly.