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by neya 96 days ago
I wonder where this sits when compared with Cloudflare's product offerings. CF Containers seem like it, but the pricing gap is huge. The bunny.net spend (if run 24/7) comes to almost a dollar an hour. Which is easily ~$700 a month.

You can have a CF implementation for as little as $70-80 a month (running 24/7).
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Havoc 96 days ago
I thought same but when i threw a hello world on there and left it for a bit the actual spend ended up way lower than expected.

They're not doing a great job communicating this imo. Felt closer to cloud function style billing to me where its active or sleeping and the pricing alludes to that "pay only for CPU time used"...yet the dollar number they give is full time for 8 cores (I think)?

Props for very honesty but they're not doing themselves any favours there imo

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neya 96 days ago
Yes you're right. The CPU you get is pretty beefy, and they do a really poor job of marketing it.

I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product. Might be a steal for enterprises though if they can run intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.

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Havoc 96 days ago
>I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product.

Actually think that's their #1 audience.

They absolute take an L on raw pricing, but their "don't send me surprise 100k bills" story is very strong. Their billing is prepay and when I was looking at their WAF even the free tier thing it looked solid on rate limit features

> intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.

I'd venture that it would be the wrong tool for that anyway. I'd probably do something like static page on their CDN, dynamic requests to a magic container/function and that passes it on to something VM-ish that isn't publicly exposed. To me 100s of dollar spend in exposed edge compute just doesn't make sense

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neya 96 days ago
> To me 100s of dollar spend in exposed edge compute just doesn't make sense

Agreed. The example they give for this is something like image processing. Might work well for large publishers I guess.

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