Bunny Stream vs VSLStats

Bunny Stream bills for what you use and nothing else. Encoding, the player, watermarking, token security and hotlink protection are all free; you pay $0.01 a gigabyte for storage and delivery from $0.005 a gigabyte, tiered down as volume grows, with a roughly $1 a month minimum. A small library on modest traffic can run to a few dollars a month, and there is a 14-day trial that needs no card. The flip side of usage pricing is that a viral sales letter costs more than the few-dollar examples suggest, because the bill scales with every gigabyte served.

VSLStats sells flat, public plans, from $47 a month, or $39 a month billed annually, with Pro at $97. The server-side pixel forwarding and revenue attribution that are its entire reason to exist sit on that Pro tier, so the number to compare is $97, not $47. There is no free plan; the way in is a $1, 7-day full-access trial that needs a card and auto-renews into a paid plan. The terms make fees non-refundable except where law requires, disclaim any conversion or revenue lift, and put the GDPR controller burden on you, so read them before you enter a card, and use one you can cap.

So which is cheaper depends on what you are actually buying. On the sticker Bunny wins by a wide margin, because a few dollars of usage beats $47 a month. But the two are not paying for the same thing: Bunny hands you the file and a bare player, while VSLStats bundles the whole VSL player, gating, tracking and analytics layer you would otherwise assemble on top of Bunny. Count what you would have to add to Bunny, and maintain, before you call it the cheaper option.

That build cost is the hidden line on the Bunny side the sticker does not show. The player, gating, timed CTAs, pixels and analytics you get inside VSLStats, you assemble and run yourself on Bunny, usually with a plugin like Presto Player or Vidstack plus whatever you bolt on for tracking. For a team with a developer that is a weekend of work and then it is cheaper forever. For a non-technical seller it is extra tools, extra integration and a stack you have to keep working, and the engineering you save by buying a finished tool is often worth more than the per-gigabyte gap.

There is also the question of what the money buys you in confidence. Bunny is proven infrastructure with years behind it; VSLStats is three months old, and the Pro tier you are paying $97 for carries the exact claims, server-side deduplication, attribution accuracy, reliability at ad scale, that nobody outside the vendor has verified. You are paying to test them. That is not a reason to rule it out, but it is a reason to pilot on a non-critical funnel and reconcile the numbers against your own Stripe and Meta dashboards before you migrate a proven offer.

TrackPlay prices on a third model, and it is worth a line because it changes the maths. It bills by plays rather than storage, bandwidth or seats, so a high-traffic sales letter is metered on views watched, not gigabytes served or a flat monthly fee, and every feature ships on every paid plan. Paid plans start at $29 a month, there is a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month, watermarked, and a 14-day trial of the paid features. Bunny is cheapest at the door and VSLStats bundles the DR toolkit for $47, but TrackPlay's case is that it does the cart-verified attribution work while it settles its split tests on the actual sale, without an inflated progress bar or a non-refundable card.