A video-heavy bundle against a pure pay-as-you-go meter: two European mid-market networks with opposite billing instincts.
Winner depends on your workload.
Winner depends on: your monthly volume — the bundle maths flips hard around the tens-of-terabytes mark — and whether your workload looks like video and large files (CDN77’s home turf) or classic website delivery (KeyCDN’s).
Side by side
| CDN77 | KeyCDN | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing shape | Growth bundle: $990/month for 250 TB ($3.96/TB overage) | Pure meter: $0.04/GB NA/EU tiering to $0.01 over 100 TB |
| Effective floor | ~$0.004/GB at full bundle utilisation | $0.01/GB at the top volume tier (NA/EU) |
| Minimums | $990/month (Growth) | $4/month usage |
| Network | 136 PoPs, private backbone, 180 Tbps | 60+ PoPs, zone-selectable |
| Workload center | Video — VOD and live are ~90% of its traffic | Websites, static assets, downloads |
| Extras | Object storage, private CDN, edge options | Image processing, push zones (metered add-ons) |
Opposite billing instincts
These two European networks answer the pricing question from opposite ends. KeyCDN meters: every gigabyte billed as delivered, from $0.04/GB in NA/EU stepping down to $0.01 past 100 TB, with a $4 monthly floor — you can spend pocket change. CDN77 bundles: the Growth plan is $990 a month for up to 250 TB of global traffic with every platform feature included and overage at $3.96/TB, with Enterprise deals negotiated above that. One prices for the long tail of small buyers; the other prices for buyers who already move serious traffic and want one number.
The crossover arithmetic
The decision is mostly a volume question, so here is the curve. At 5 TB/month NA/EU: KeyCDN ≈ $200; CDN77 ≈ $990 — no contest. At 30 TB: KeyCDN ≈ $1,000 (blended through its tiers); CDN77 still $990 — the lines cross. At 100 TB: KeyCDN ≈ $2,400; CDN77 $990. At the full 250 TB, CDN77’s effective rate is roughly $0.004/GB — about a quarter of KeyCDN’s best NA/EU tier — and the gap widens further if your traffic includes Asia or Latin America, which KeyCDN bills at $0.08–$0.10/GB while CDN77’s bundle price is global. Below roughly 25–30 TB/month the meter wins; above it, the bundle does, decisively. Figures checked against both providers’ published pricing, July 2026.
Built for different traffic
The workload fit matters as much as the invoice. CDN77 is, by its own numbers, a video company: around ninety percent of its traffic is VOD and live streaming, its 136-PoP network rides a private backbone sized in the hundreds of terabits, and its client list skews toward OTT platforms and large media properties. Large-file and segment delivery is what the network is tuned for. KeyCDN’s center of gravity is classic web acceleration — pull zones fronting websites, static assets and software downloads — with a deliberately small feature surface and metered add-ons (push storage, log forwarding, image operations) covering the rest, line items we detailed in Bunny vs KeyCDN.
The operational contrast
Two smaller line items are worth pricing before you decide. CDN77’s platform charges for egress outside its own network at $0.09/GB beyond the first free 50 GB — relevant if your workflow pulls content back out — and API requests above the first million a month bill at $0.03 per ten thousand. KeyCDN’s account credit expires if left unused across a year, and files above 100 MB require push zones with their storage meter and URL-level-only purge. None of these changes the crossover arithmetic above, but each has surprised at least one team we’ve audited.
CDN77’s model comes with hands: trial periods sized to mirror production traffic, a transition team during onboarding, and 24/7 support included — the posture of a vendor used to migrating broadcasters. KeyCDN’s model is self-service: sign up, top up (minimum $49), point a zone at your origin and go. Neither is wrong; they select for different buyers. A two-person team fronting a documentation site does not want a transition call, and a streaming platform moving 200 TB does not want to discover log forwarding is a dollar a day.
How to decide
Size first, shape second. Under ~25 TB/month, KeyCDN’s meter (or a budget player from the CDN77 vs Bunny field) keeps you efficient. Above it — and especially if the traffic is video — CDN77’s bundle is one of the mid-market’s honest bargains, and its Enterprise tier negotiates well from there. The mistake to avoid is paying meter rates for bundle-sized traffic out of inertia; that error compounds monthly.
Sitting near the bundle crossover? The assessment finds the cheapest structure for your exact volume curve.