Bunny Database
Ranked 8 of 15 managed databases by recommenders
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.
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.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Usage-based, prepayable pricing
“Using a SQLite-compatible engine lets us offer a truly usage-based model with affordable read replication and minimal idle costs.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “one of the few cloud-y providers that has both prepayment and a rate limiter that doesn't charge for rate limit exceeds”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “pricing strongly favors Bunny once you're outside of Cloudflare's free tier”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” - Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database”
EU-based, not American company
“they're EU-based, which may be a selling point if you're inclined to divest from US tech when possible”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “It's not an american company.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” Replacement for Cloudflare workloads
“it looks like a very viable replacement for most things I currently do with Cloudflare”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “pricing strongly favors Bunny once you're outside of Cloudflare's free tier”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” Integrates with other Bunny services
“An advantage is the integration with other Bunny services like containers etc.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “Bunny has their own infra”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Features slow to mature
“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”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” Trust concerns about the company
“it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “Why would you move from Cloudflare to this shady company?”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “all of it is marketing for better audience”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” Questions need for hosted database
“Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database” “I don't understand why one would use it otherwise.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bunny Database”
Other managed databases people recommend
The four most recommended other managed databases, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon RDS | 50 | 43 | 54% | 11 | — | — |
| Neon Postgres | 48 | 10 | 83% | 12 | — | Approved |
| DynamoDB | 46 | 31 | 60% | 11 | — | — |
| Cloudflare D1 | 36 | 30 | 55% | 10 | — | — |
| Bunny DatabaseThis page | 12 | 7 | 63% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
20 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Another advantage is our global network: Bunny Database is available in 41 regions, so if your app has global users (or users in specific locations), you can avoid workarounds to hide latency from the DB.”
“Why would you move from Cloudflare to this shady company?”
“you can't even begin to think about introducing a network stack between your application and the database”
“bunny does a nice job here”
“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”
“I was still seeing requests from 2026-02-01, and none from today”
“all of it is marketing for better audience”
“Bunny has their own infra”
“it looks like a very viable replacement for most things I currently do with Cloudflare”
“It's not an american company.”
“I don't understand why one would use it otherwise.”
“pricing strongly favors Bunny once you're outside of Cloudflare's free tier”
“they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point”
“one of the few cloud-y providers that has both prepayment and a rate limiter that doesn't charge for rate limit exceeds”
“it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database”
“Using a SQLite-compatible engine lets us offer a truly usage-based model with affordable read replication and minimal idle costs.”
“The best thing about their pricing is that you can prepay.”
“Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?”
“An advantage is the integration with other Bunny services like containers etc.”
“they're EU-based, which may be a selling point if you're inclined to divest from US tech when possible”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.