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Bunny.net vs Clerk

Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute
vs. User management and authentication as a service

Bunny.net website ↗Clerk website ↗

Pricing tiers

Bunny.net

CDN Volume — 1-2 PB
$0.002/GB at 1-2 PB volume.
$0/mo
CDN Volume — First 500 TB
$0.005/GB Volume Network (10 PoPs) for high-volume.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — EU/NA
$0.01/GB. 119 PoPs Standard Network in Europe + North America.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — Asia + Oceania
$0.03/GB.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — South America
$0.045/GB.
$0/mo
CDN Standard — ME/Africa
$0.06/GB.
$0/mo
Monthly Minimum
Minimum $1/month.
$1/mo
Bunny.net website ↗

Clerk

Free
50k MAU included. No SSO/SAML. Perfect for side projects and early prototypes.
Free
Pro
$25/mo (or $20/mo annual). 50k MAU, $0.02 each after. 1 enterprise SSO connection per app. Webhooks, JWT templates, custom session duration.
$25/mo
Business
$300/mo (or $250/mo annual). Advanced organizations, enhanced support, additional enterprise features.
$300/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume MAU discounts, SLA, workspace-wide SAML SSO, dedicated support.
Custom
Clerk website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net vs hobby on Clerk.

MetricBunny.netClerk
mao—100 orgs/month
mau—50000 users/month
sso connections—0 connections

Features

Bunny.net · 14 features

  • Bunny CDN — Standard + Volume networks. 119 PoPs globally.
  • Bunny Database — Edge-distributed key-value DB.
  • Bunny DNS — Free anycast DNS.
  • Bunny Optimizer — On-the-fly image + video optimization.
  • Bunny Shield (WAF + DDoS) — DDoS protection + WAF + bot defense.
  • Bunny Stream — Video hosting + transcoding + HLS delivery.
  • Custom Hostname — Use yourdomain.com with CDN.
  • Edge Scripting — JavaScript at the edge (like CF Workers).
  • Edge Storage — Object storage replicated across regions.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — Auto cert issuance/renewal.
  • Hot-linking Protection — Block unauthorized embeds.
  • Instant Purge — Global invalidation.
  • Magic Containers — Serverless containers at edge.
  • Real-Time Analytics — Per-zone + per-country usage stats.

Clerk · 15 features

  • Account Portal — Hosted sign-in/user profile pages at accounts.yourapp.com — zero UI code, fully …
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA integrated into sign-up.
  • Clerk Billing — Built-in Stripe-powered billing: subscriptions, plans, proration — ties directly…
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) — SAML and OIDC for enterprise customers. Per-domain connection. Pro+ (1 included)…
  • Impersonation — Act as a user from dashboard to debug. Logged.
  • JWT Templates — Custom JWT issuance for third-party backends (Supabase, Hasura, Firebase, Convex…
  • Machine Tokens (M2M) — API keys and machine tokens for service-to-service auth in addition to user sess…
  • Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP (authenticator apps), SMS OTP, backup codes. Forced or optional per user.
  • Organizations (B2B) — Multi-tenant orgs with roles, permissions, invitations, domain allowlist, and pe…
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn) — Passwordless passkey sign-in with per-device biometrics.
  • Prebuilt Components — Drop-in React components: <SignIn/>, <SignUp/>, <UserButton/>, <OrganizationSwit…
  • Sessions — Server-side session tokens. Sliding expiration by default; configurable absolute…
  • User Management — Full user CRUD, metadata (public/private/unsafe), email/phone verification, ban/…
  • Waitlist Mode — Collect sign-ups before opening the app. Approve waitlist entries to activate ac…
  • Webhooks — Events: user.created/updated/deleted, session.created, organization.* — delivere…

Developer interfaces

KindBunny.netClerk
SDKbunnycdn.js (community)@clerk/astro, @clerk/backend / @clerk/clerk-sdk-node, @clerk/chrome-extension, @clerk/clerk-expo, @clerk/clerk-js (vanilla), @clerk/clerk-react, @clerk/clerk-react-native, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/remix, clerk-sdk-go, clerk-sdk-python, clerk-sdk-ruby, @clerk/tanstack-start, @clerk/vue
RESTBunny.net APIBackend REST API, Frontend API
MCP—Clerk MCP
OTHERBunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge ScriptingWebhooks (Svix)
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