Bunny.net vs Cloudflare
Bunny.net is a European alternative to Cloudflare — same cdn & ddos protection use case, built under EU data-protection law.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Deliver content globally with a Slovenian-built CDN — 119 PoPs, edge storage, video delivery, DNS, and EU-only routing at €0.01/GB with no minimum commitment.
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- Yes
Cloudflare by Cloudflare.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
About Bunny.net
Bunny.net is a Slovenian content delivery network providing CDN, edge storage, video hosting, DNS, and serverless edge computing from a single platform — built to be fast, simple, and significantly more affordable than legacy CDN providers. With 119 points of presence and EU-only routing controls, it is one of the most developer-friendly CDNs in Europe.
BunnyStorage provides S3-compatible distributed object storage with regional replication zones. Bunny Stream transcodes, stores, and delivers video with a built-in player and DRM. Edge scripting deploys serverless JavaScript functions at the PoP nearest the user, and Bunny Optimizer automatically compresses and converts images on the fly.
Key benefits:
- 119 PoPs globally with EU-only routing for GDPR-compliant data residency
- BunnyStorage — distributed edge storage with regional replication from €0.01/GB
- Bunny Stream — video transcoding, adaptive delivery, and DRM-protected playback
- Edge scripting — serverless JavaScript functions deployed globally in seconds
- Bunny Optimizer — automatic image compression and WebP/AVIF conversion on the fly
- Bunny DNS — anycast DNS with sub-10ms global query times
- EU-only routing toggle to restrict all traffic to European PoPs with one setting
- Pay-as-you-go — no minimums, no commitments, and a free trial to start
Founded in 2015 by Dejan Grofelnik Pelzel and headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia — an EU member state — Bunny.net operates fully under GDPR and provides data processing agreements for EU customers. EU-only routing mode ensures traffic never transits non-EU infrastructure.
Trusted by tens of thousands of developers, agencies, and SaaS companies for affordable high-performance content delivery with genuine European data sovereignty controls.
Why choose Bunny.net over Cloudflare?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. Cloudflare is headquartered in US, which means personal data processed through it can be subject to non-EU legal regimes — the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or similar laws depending on the provider. After the 2020 Schrems II ruling, EU organisations must carry out a transfer impact assessment for every such data flow.
Bunny.net removes that overhead. As a Slovenia-based provider, it operates natively under GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors — health, public administration, finance — that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single non-EU jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.