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Datadog vs Bunny.net

Enterprise cloud monitoring — infra, APM, logs, RUM, security, LLM
vs. Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute

Datadog website ↗Bunny.net website ↗

Pricing tiers

Datadog

Serverless Monitoring
$0.13 per month per 1M invocations.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free
Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention. Community edition of Agent.
Free
Logs Ingestion
$0.10 per ingested/scanned GB per month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Standard Index
$1.70 per million log events/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Flex Storage
$0.05 per million events stored/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Infra Pro
Per host per month (annual billing). 15-month metric retention, 500+ integrations.
$15/mo
Infra Enterprise
Per host. Advanced features, Network Flow Monitoring.
$23/mo
APM
Per host (with Infra attached). Distributed tracing.
$31/mo
APM Pro
Per host. Continuous Profiler + Data Streams Monitoring.
$35/mo
APM Enterprise
Per host. App & API Protection + more.
$40/mo
Enterprise
Volume discounts, dedicated CSM, regional data residency.
Custom
Datadog website ↗

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 ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Datadog vs volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net.

MetricDatadogBunny.net
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Datadog · 19 features

  • APM — Distributed tracing + service catalog + code hotspots.
  • Application Security — Runtime attack detection, threat intelligence, IAST.
  • CI Visibility — Test + pipeline performance analytics.
  • Cloud SIEM — Security events correlation, detection rules, audit trails.
  • Continuous Profiler — Always-on CPU, memory, lock profiling in production.
  • Dashboards — Pre-built + custom dashboards.
  • Database Monitoring — Slow query detection for Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Oracle, SQL Server.
  • Incident Management — Built-in incident response with postmortems.
  • Infrastructure Monitoring — Host, container, k8s metrics. 700+ integrations. Live process + container maps.
  • LLM Observability — OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. trace + cost + prompt eval.
  • Log Management — Ingest any logs, structured or raw. Pipelines, parsing, archives to S3.
  • Monitors — Anomaly, forecast, outlier, composite monitors.
  • Network Performance Monitoring — Packet-level analysis, flow monitoring.
  • Notebooks — Runbook-style dashboards with queries + docs.
  • Real User Monitoring — Frontend performance, JS errors, user sessions, Core Web Vitals.
  • Serverless Monitoring — AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions observability.
  • Service Catalog — Service inventory with ownership + documentation.
  • Synthetics — Synthetic HTTP + browser tests, API tests, mobile tests.
  • Workflow Automation — No-code workflows triggered by events.

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.

Developer interfaces

KindDatadogBunny.net
CLIDatadog Agent—
SDKdd-trace-dotnet, dd-trace-go, dd-trace-java, dd-trace-js (RUM), dd-trace (Node), ddtrace (Python), ddtrace (Ruby)bunnycdn.js (community)
RESTDatadog REST APIBunny.net API
MCPDatadog MCP—
OTHEROpenTelemetry (OTLP), WebhooksBunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge Scripting
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