bunny.net vs SproutVideo Comparison 2026
bunny.net charges purely by the gigabyte with no plan to buy, a one dollar minimum and nothing bundled beyond delivery itself. SproutVideo sells a flat monthly plan instead, storage and bandwidth included rather than metered from the first byte, starting at $12 a month for 150GB of storage, with engagement heatmaps and a controlled player layered on top. The trade is predictability against pure usage pricing: SproutVideo's bill is known before the month starts, bunny.net's tracks exactly what got watched.
Pay-as-you-go video hosting and delivery
Video hosting with the bandwidth included
At a glance
- bunny.net starts cheaper, at $1.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
bunny.net | SproutVideo | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $1 | From $12 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Usage-based | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 14 days | 30 days |
bunny.net
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.
SproutVideo
Video hosting with the bandwidth included
SproutVideo hosts video for businesses that want a player without YouTube's branding, its recommendations or its comment section. Plans include storage and bandwidth rather than metering them, so the bill is predictable until it is not. Analytics go down to heatmaps of who watched what, which is the reason most people move off a free host in the first place.
Why people weigh these two
- SproutVideo instead of bunny.net
- SproutVideo hosts embedded video with the bandwidth included in flat plans from $12, trading bunny.net's usage meter for a predictable bill.
- bunny.net instead of SproutVideo
- bunny.net bills pay-as-you-go instead of a flat plan with bandwidth included, starting at $1, for testing at low volume before committing to a fixed plan.
Which one should you pick
Pick SproutVideo if per-viewer analytics and heatmaps matter, showing which second people stopped watching, since bunny.net's listing describes no comparable reporting. Plans start at $12 a month billed annually with storage and bandwidth bundled together, and a 30-day trial with every feature is long enough to migrate a library and decide.
Pick bunny.net if the traffic is unpredictable or low, and paying only for gigabytes actually delivered beats committing to a plan sized for a good month. There is no free tier, but the one dollar minimum means a quiet month costs almost nothing, which a flat $12 SproutVideo plan does not offer regardless of how little gets watched.
Common questions
- Which one includes analytics on who watched what?
- SproutVideo does, down to heatmaps of which seconds were watched and by whom. bunny.net's listing describes delivery and bandwidth management without a comparable analytics product.
- Which one is cheaper for unpredictable traffic?
- bunny.net, generally, since it charges purely by the gigabyte with a one dollar minimum and no plan to size in advance. SproutVideo bundles storage and bandwidth into a fixed monthly plan starting at $12, which is predictable but not necessarily cheaper for a quiet month.
- Does either one control what appears around the video, like recommendations or branding?
- SproutVideo's listing states no recommendations, no branding and no comment section attached to the video. bunny.net does not describe a comparable player product; it focuses on bandwidth and storage delivery rather than the viewing experience around it.
- Which one is easier to set up without a developer?
- Neither is aimed at a non-technical user, but SproutVideo is closer to plug-and-play with a dashboard and included bandwidth. bunny.net expects comfort with a developer-oriented dashboard and pure usage billing, which suits somebody doing their own integration.
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