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SendGrid (Twilio) vs Bunny.net

Legacy email infrastructure at scale — 100B+ emails/year
vs. Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute

Twilio SendGrid ↗Bunny.net website ↗

Pricing tiers

SendGrid (Twilio)

Free Trial
100 emails/day for 60 days. After: upgrade required.
Free
Essentials — 50k
50,000 emails/month. 1 teammate. 2 event webhooks.
$20/mo
Essentials — 100k
100,000 emails/month.
$35/mo
Pro — 100k
100,000/mo. Dedicated IPs + subusers + email validation (2.5k). 1000 teammates. 5 webhooks.
$90/mo
Pro — 2.5M
2,500,000/mo. Same Pro features.
$449/mo
Premier (5M+)
Custom. SSO, custom overage rates, white-glove.
Custom
Twilio SendGrid ↗

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-trial on SendGrid (Twilio) vs volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net.

MetricSendGrid (Twilio)Bunny.net
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

SendGrid (Twilio) · 12 features

  • Dedicated IPs — Auto IP warmup, multiple IP pools per brand/customer.
  • Dynamic Templates — Handlebars-based with versioning + A/B testing on subject/content.
  • Email API (v3) — REST + SMTP. Dozens of endpoints for mail, stats, templates, subusers.
  • Email Validation — Verify email addresses before sending. Credits per check.
  • Event Webhook — Raw stream of send/delivery/bounce/open/click/unsubscribe/spamreport events.
  • Inbound Parse — Route incoming mail → your webhook. Attachments + spam score.
  • Link Branding — Track links on your own domain for reputation.
  • Marketing Campaigns — Separate UI for bulk promotional sends. Segmentation, A/B, automation.
  • SAML SSO — Premier tier only. SAML 2.0 auth for account access.
  • Stats + Reports — Aggregated + per-category + per-subuser delivery metrics.
  • Subusers — Isolate multi-tenant sends. Each subuser has own stats + API key + reputation.
  • Suppression Groups — Granular unsubscribe groups (newsletter vs billing, etc.).

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

KindSendGrid (Twilio)Bunny.net
SDKsendgrid-go, sendgrid-java, @sendgrid/mail, sendgrid-php, sendgrid-python, sendgrid-rubybunnycdn.js (community)
RESTSendGrid v3 APIBunny.net API
OTHEREvent Webhook, Inbound Parse Webhook, SMTP RelayBunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge Scripting
Staxly is an independent catalog of developer platforms. Outbound links to SendGrid (Twilio) and Bunny.net are plain references to their official websites. Pricing is verified against vendor pages at publication time — reconfirm before buying.

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