# Bunny Database

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Bunny Database and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for usage-based pricing, prepayment, low idle costs, global regions and an EU base. Critics doubt its maturity and trust in a young company.

## Why people recommend it

- Usage-based, prepayable pricing (4 comments): "Using a SQLite-compatible engine lets us offer a truly usage-based model with affordable read replication and minimal idle costs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873466)) "one of the few cloud-y providers that has both prepayment and a rate limiter that doesn't charge for rate limit exceeds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873632)) "pricing strongly favors Bunny once you're outside of Cloudflare's free tier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874003))
- EU-based, not American company (2 comments): "they're EU-based, which may be a selling point if you're inclined to divest from US tech when possible" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872001)) "It's not an american company." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874988))
- Replacement for Cloudflare workloads (2 comments): "it looks like a very viable replacement for most things I currently do with Cloudflare" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875672)) "pricing strongly favors Bunny once you're outside of Cloudflare's free tier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874003))
- Integrates with other Bunny services (2 comments): "An advantage is the integration with other Bunny services like containers etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872260)) "Bunny has their own infra" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877237))

## What people warn about

- Features slow to mature (2 comments): "The pricing model and EU story are genuinely compelling, but if the S3 compatibility timeline is any guide, I'd let this one run quietly for a year" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881648)) "they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873862))
- Trust concerns about the company (3 comments): "it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873590)) "Why would you move from Cloudflare to this shady company?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883283)) "all of it is marketing for better audience" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878125))
- Questions need for hosted database (2 comments): "Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873296)) "I don't understand why one would use it otherwise." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874420))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Amazon RDS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-rds.md): 50 recommend
- [Neon Postgres](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neon.md): 48 recommend
- [DynamoDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-dynamodb.md): 46 recommend
- [Cloudflare D1](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-d1.md): 36 recommend
- [PlanetScale](https://hackerapproved.com/p/planetscale.md): 33 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://bunny.net/database/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bunny Database", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bunny-database/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).