Prompt
I’m unhappy with Cloudflare pricing for bandwidth-heavy traffic
Latest observation
If you’re unhappy with Cloudflare’s pricing for bandwidth-heavy traffic, you’re definitely not alone. The best alternative depends on what you’re actually using Cloudflare for:
If you mainly need a CDN / edge delivery
Consider:
- Bunny.net — often much cheaper for large-volume static delivery
- Fastly — powerful, but can still get expensive at scale
- AWS CloudFront — flexible, sometimes cost-effective depending on geography and origin setup
- Google Cloud CDN / Azure CDN — worth comparing if you’re already on those clouds
If you need DDoS protection + WAF + CDN
You’ll want to compare:
- Fastly
- AWS + Shield + WAF
- Akamai (strong, but often enterprise-priced)
- Imperva
- Sucuri (more site-focused)
If your traffic is mostly video, downloads, or large files
These are often better fits:
- Bunny.net
- Backblaze B2 + CDN
- Wasabi + CDN
- Cloudflare R2 can help with egress economics in some cases, but it depends on your access pattern
If you want to reduce bandwidth bills without changing providers
A few options:
- Increase cache hit rate
- Serve more assets from object storage/CDN instead of origin
- Compress aggressively
- Use image optimization and next-gen formats
- Trim bot traffic / hotlinking
- Reduce TTL churn and cache-busting
- Analyze which geographies are driving the spend
Quick rule of thumb
- Cheapest for static heavy delivery: Bunny.net
- Best enterprise edge platform: Fastly / Akamai
- Best if you’re already deep in AWS: CloudFront + S3/Origin optimization
- Best if you want to avoid paying for egress in some workflows: R2-based setups
If you want, I can help you compare Cloudflare vs Bunny vs CloudFront for your exact traffic pattern and estimate which one is likely cheapest.
Observation history
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