// VERSUS · BUNNY

A specialized image CDN. A full image API, not just an optimizer.

Bunny's Image Optimizer is a flat add-on per pull zone plus metered CDN bandwidth on top — hard to beat if light optimization is all you need. img apis is the full image API: a /info bundle returning palette + BlurHash + metadata in one round-trip, /grid composition for 2–5 sources, background removal at a disclosed credit cost, an account-level default mark that auto-applies across every endpoint on Pro+, idempotent credits — served from Cloudflare's 300+ POPs with bandwidth bundled flat.

You like Bunny's CDN, but the Optimizer stops short — no /info bundle, no /grid composition, no auto-mark, no first-class background remover. Bolting a second service in front of it defeats the simplicity that brought you to Bunny in the first place.

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Pick us when

Pick img apis when the full image API is the wedge.

You need a /info bundle — palette + BlurHash + metadata in a single round-trip, WCAG-paired contrast on every swatch.
First-class /grid composition for 2–5 sources, plus a /placeholder family that renders BlurHash or color tiles to real PNG.
Account-level default mark (Pro+) auto-applies across every image-returning endpoint — set the brand once, every URL ships marked.
Background removal at a disclosed credit cost (not buried as an AI add-on), idempotent credits, cache hits cost zero.
An image CDN with intelligence built in — Cloudflare’s 300+ POPs, bandwidth bundled flat, BYO R2 / S3 / HTTPS source.

Pick them when

Pick Bunny when CDN is the product.

A fast, regional, low-cost CDN is your primary need — image optimization is secondary.
You are already on Bunny Storage and want the stack inside one vendor.
You want per-region bandwidth pricing controls and a granular pull-zone model.
Light optimization (resize + format auto) is enough — no BlurHash, no palette extraction, no metadata API needed.
Cost-per-transform at scale is the axis that matters most.

// SIDE BY SIDE

img apis vs Bunny

Compared on billing shape and feature coverage — line by line, claim by claim.

// comparison matrix2 vendors

// feature	oursimg apis	Bunny
Mid-tier billing model	flat plan, bandwidth bundled	flat add-on per pull zone
Transforms at mid-tier	flat credit allowance	unlimited optimization, bandwidth on top
Palette + BlurHash + metadata in one /info call
Color pairs with WCAG contrast
Smart gravity (face + entropy)
Background removal
BlurHash decode endpoint (renders to PNG/JPEG)
1-year immutable transform cache
Edge POPs serving you	300+	100+
Free trial	200 cr / 7d	14d capped
Bill is one line (no shared pool with bandwidth & storage)
Same URL never billed twice
Custom domain on cheapest plan

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// FORMAT NEGOTIATION

Same negotiation, beyond the optimize step.

Bunny's Optimizer auto-negotiates AVIF and WebP at the edge — and so does img apis with format=auto. Same physics, same per-Accept negotiation. The wedge sits in everything else the URL can do: BlurHash, palette, idempotent billing.

−77%

jpeg

146KB

webp

58KB

avif

33KB

−78%

jpeg

130KB

webp

50KB

avif

28KB

−78%

jpeg

138KB

webp

53KB

avif

31KB

One URL · format=auto · cached one year, immutable.

// BEYOND OPTIMIZE

Optimization plus everything /info returns.

Bunny's Optimizer resizes, recompresses and reformats — that is the whole product surface. img apis adds /info on top: dimensions, a WCAG-paired palette and a BlurHash string, all in one round-trip with a 24-hour edge cache.

// THE INVOICE

One line. Bandwidth included.

This is the part nobody reads until invoice day. Bunny meters identical URLs every refresh — cache reads count as bandwidth, so a popular product image is charged perpetually. img apis is idempotent: the same URL deducts credits once per month, period.

json·Bunny · what you actually get billed for

{
  "Image Optimizer":                   "flat add-on, per pull zone",
  "CDN Volume bandwidth":              "metered per GB",
  "Edge Storage":                      "metered per GB",
  "Cache-miss revalidation":           "metered with bandwidth",
  "Identical URLs billed twice?":      true,
  "/info bundle, /grid, auto-mark":    "not bundled"
}

json·img apis · transform only, idempotent billing

{
  "Monthly plan":                      "flat — one line item",
  "Transform call":                    "1 credit",
  "Info call (palette + BlurHash)":    "0.5 credit",
  "Bandwidth":                         "bundled flat (CF edge, 300+ POPs)",
  "Identical URLs billed twice?":      false
}

// READY TO COMPARE FOR REAL

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