# Bunny Stream review (2026): is it worth $1 a month? > Pay-as-you-go video hosting, encoding and delivery Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Bunny Stream is a video hosting and delivery service from bunny.net that handles upload, transcoding, storage and playback through a web video manager or an API. It includes a customizable player and charges for storage and traffic only, with no separate encoding fee. - **Category:** Screen Recording & Video - **Made by:** bunny.net (since 2014) - **Website:** https://bunny.net/stream - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, because it has only a 14-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Bunny Stream is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $1 per month minimum, plus usage. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay as you go | $1 per month minimum, plus storage and traffic used | Storage from $0.01/GB and delivery from $0.005/GB. Encoding, the player and security features carry no extra fee. | Read from https://bunny.net/pricing/stream/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Bunny Stream before buying. ## Key features - **Upload and transcoding:** Upload through the API or the web video manager; videos are transcoded into several resolutions with no transcoding fee. - **Replicated storage:** Choose up to 8 storage regions to balance speed and cost, with files replicated across the network and served through a global load balancer. - **Customizable player:** The included player lets you change controls, colors and language or apply your own CSS, and you can use a third-party player instead. - **Content protection:** Hotlinking protection, token authentication and watermarking are listed, and an enterprise multi-DRM option targets downloads and screen recording. - **AI captions and tagging:** Transcribe AI generates captions, and the feature list also names AI content tagging. ## Good for - Developers adding video playback to a site or app through an API - Sites that want to pay for storage and traffic only - Teams that need to restrict where and how videos are played ## Worth knowing - Billing is usage-based: the page shows a $1 monthly minimum, then per-GB storage and traffic prices. - Multi-DRM, Premium Encoding and Transcribe AI are listed as separate products and their prices are not on the Stream pricing page. - There is no separate free plan; the page offers a 14-day trial. - A web dashboard and API only; the page lists no desktop or mobile apps. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Bunny Stream hosts and delivers video with a built-in player and no encoding fee, billed by storage and traffic with a $1 monthly minimum. There is no free plan, multi-DRM and some AI tools are priced elsewhere, and it is a dashboard and API, not an app. - **Value for money: A.** $1 a month minimum, then storage from $0.01 per GB and delivery from $0.005 per GB. That starts well under the $5 mark for the cheapest tools, though the bill grows with your traffic. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 14-day free trial, no card needed, and no free plan after it. - **Features: C.** Upload, transcoding, a customisable player, hotlink and token protection and AI captions. Multi-DRM, Premium Encoding and Transcribe AI are separate products with prices not on this page. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You work in a web video manager or the API and wire the player into your own site. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web dashboard and API only. No desktop or phone apps and no integrations list. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from bunny.net's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among screen recording and video tools - Bunny Stream's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 66 of the 133 other screen recording and video tools we grade, and level with 22. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 102 of 133) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $1 a month, against a middle price of $12.25 for the category: 0 of the 88 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/video ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Bunny Stream does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company. It costs $12 a year. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Public API, AI features, Transcription ## Alternatives - [Mux](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mux): Video API for storing, streaming and analyzing video in apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bunny-stream-vs-mux) - [api.video](https://toolgpa.com/tools/api-video): Video hosting, live streaming and analytics API for developers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/api-video-vs-bunny-stream) - [Vimeo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vimeo): Ad-free video hosting with a customizable player and review tools. 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