Bunny CDN Alternative

Bunny.net earned its following with genuinely fast, genuinely cheap CDN delivery, and Bunny Storage adds an origin so you can keep assets near the edge. The friction shows up when you assemble the full picture: you choose Storage Zones and their replication regions, attach Pull Zones, reason about per-region storage pricing, and manage edge rules — flexible, but more knobs than a developer who just wants "upload a file, get a fast URL" needs. files.link bundles storage and delivery into one prepaid account with far fewer dials: upload through the REST API, get a permanent URL backed by a global CDN across 450+ edge locations, done.

The organizational model is built for developers rather than CDN operators — projects and folders to separate apps, environments, or clients, and permanent shareable links instead of constructing pull-zone hostnames. Private delivery is covered the way Bunny's Token Authentication covers it: signed URLs with configurable expiry, so paywalled or per-user assets aren't openly fetchable.

There's also a cold storage tier for assets you want retained cheaply but rarely serve — something Bunny Storage doesn't offer as a distinct tier. Honest comparison: Bunny exposes more performance-tuning surface (edge rules, per-zone replication geography, image optimization options), and its CDN-only pricing is extremely competitive if you already have an origin elsewhere. files.link isn't trying to win a pure CDN price war; it wins when you'd otherwise stitch a storage product to a CDN product and maintain both.

Uploading is the same three calls everywhere on the platform — POST /v1/files/{folderId} → PUT presigned URL → POST /v1/files/confirm-upload, with the raw API key as the Authorization header — so wiring an app to serve images, downloads, or video segments from the edge is a single integration, billed predictably with prepaid credits instead of a usage meter you reconcile monthly.

Comparing the broader field? See Cloudflare R2 and our affordable CDN overview.