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Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| bunny.net | pCloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $1 | From $199 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | One-time purchase |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Usage-based | One-time purchase |
| Free trial | 14 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux |
| Covers | Video Hosting, Media Storage & Review | Media Storage & Review |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Pay-as-you-go video hosting and delivery
bunny.net is a content delivery network with a video product on top, and it charges by the gigabyte with a one dollar monthly minimum. A creator embedding video on their own site pays for what people actually watch instead of buying a plan sized for a good month. It expects you to be comfortable with a dashboard built for developers, and it does not try to be a membership platform.
Our note
This is the cheapest way to put video on your own site by a wide margin, and the cost of that is doing the integration yourself. Set the bandwidth limit on day one; usage billing without a ceiling is the one way this gets expensive.
Only on this side
Cloud storage you buy once and keep
pCloud sells lifetime storage for a single payment, which over five years costs less than any subscription and removes the monthly bill from a creator's overheads. Files stream without downloading first, so a media library stays browsable. The one-time price is real but the encryption add-on is separate, and lifetime means the company's lifetime.
Our note
Lifetime means the company's lifetime, not yours, and that is the whole risk in this purchase. pCloud has been going since 2013, which is longer than most, but do not let it be the only copy of anything you cannot re-shoot.
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