# Bunny Storage vs DigitalOcean Spaces

> DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) to Bunny Storage's 58.3 (C) for object storage. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Bunny Storage's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Bunny Storage leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do object storage.

- Bunny Storage: grade C, 58.3/100, rank #582 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bunny-storage.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bunny-storage.json
- DigitalOcean Spaces: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #402 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/digitalocean-spaces.json
- Best file storage and sharing APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/file-storage/index.md
- All 75 storage comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/file-storage/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Bunny Storage (C)

Good for: An agent that publishes files to be served through a CDN at the lowest price and doesn't need fine-grained credentials.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 63 against 37

Watch for: Zone passwords are the only storage credential, read-write or read-only, with no expiry, prefix scope or usage log

### DigitalOcean Spaces (B)

Good for: Teams already on DigitalOcean that want object storage with a CDN and a flat $5 entry price for up to 250 GiB, with free transfer to Droplets in the same region.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 57
- Security & auth, 77 against 45
- Transparency & trust, 74 against 60

Watch for: The Spaces MCP server has ten tools for access keys and CDN endpoints. None reads, writes, lists or shares an object


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Bunny Storage | DigitalOcean Spaces | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 77 | DigitalOcean Spaces +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 63 | Bunny Storage +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 73 | DigitalOcean Spaces +16 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 77 | DigitalOcean Spaces +32 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Bunny Storage +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 37 | Bunny Storage +26 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 74 | DigitalOcean Spaces +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.3 · C** | **63.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Bunny Storage | DigitalOcean Spaces |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | bunny.net | DigitalOcean, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://storage.bunnycdn.com` | `https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the DigitalOcean Terms of Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-14 | 2026-04-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-08-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-01-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 46 stars, 10k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**Bunny Storage.** $0.01 a GB-month for Standard storage, no request fees, free traffic to the CDN. Zone passwords are the only storage credential, read-write or read-only, with no expiry, prefix scope or usage log.

**DigitalOcean Spaces.** Per-bucket access keys with read or read-write-delete grants, an 800 operations a second limit per bucket and a 99.9 per cent SLA are all published. The MCP server manages keys and CDN endpoints only, not objects, and the S3 reference documents no error codes. A payment method is required before any bucket is created.

## Before you call either

### Bunny Storage

1. Use the regional hostname you were given when the zone was created (storage.bunnycdn.com is Frankfurt). Other regions return a 401
2. Send the body as raw bytes with --data-binary. Base64 or form encoding gets a 401
3. Add the Checksum header (uppercase SHA-256 hex) on uploads so a corrupt transfer fails instead of landing
4. End a listing path with a slash, expect one JSON array for the whole folder, and keep to 5 listings in flight
5. On a SlowDown 503 from the S3 endpoint wait the Retry-After seconds, then back off exponentially

### DigitalOcean Spaces

1. Set the endpoint to `https://<region>.digitaloceanspaces.com` and, in AWS SDKs other than Python's, set `region` to `us-east-1` when creating a bucket
2. Ask for a limited access key with a Read or Read/Write/Delete grant on one bucket. A full access key can create, configure and delete every bucket
3. Do the object work through the S3 API. The MCP server and `doctl` cannot upload, list, move or delete files
4. Retry with exponential backoff on `503 Slow Down`, and keep below 800 operations a second per bucket
5. Fetch presigned links from the origin host, not the CDN. The docs say presigned requests through the CDN are not cached and can double the bandwidth charge
6. Avoid many tiny objects. Each bills as at least 4 KiB on Standard and 128 KiB on Cold Storage, which also has a 30-day minimum

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Bunny Storage or DigitalOcean Spaces?

DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Bunny Storage's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Bunny Storage leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Bunny Storage and DigitalOcean Spaces need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Bunny Storage and DigitalOcean Spaces without installing anything?

Yes. Bunny Storage has a hosted endpoint at https://storage.bunnycdn.com and DigitalOcean Spaces at https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bunny-storage-vs-digitalocean-spaces.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bunny-storage-vs-digitalocean-spaces.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "bunny-storage", "b": "digitalocean-spaces"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bunny-storage digitalocean-spaces`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bunny-storage.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/digitalocean-spaces.json

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