Cloudflare DNS
Anycast authoritative DNS included in all Cloudflare plans, per-zone plans with unmetered queries.
For most sites this means authoritative DNS with no bill at all, because the Free plan has unmetered queries and paid plans add proxy and WAF features rather than DNS capacity. Pro at $20/mo billed annually and Business at $200/mo are charged per zone, so cost only scales with domains if you need those extras. Unlike Route 53 or Azure DNS, queries are never metered, but EU data localisation requires the Data Localization Suite, an Enterprise add-on.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- free
- Free tier
- Free plan includes authoritative DNS with unmetered queries.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.cloudflare.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Base fee / month |
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| $0 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included zones
- 0
- Zone / month
- $0
- Included queries / month (millions)
- 0
- 1M DNS queries
- $0
Modelled on the Free plan, which includes authoritative DNS with unmetered queries. Paid plans are per zone (domain) and add proxy/WAF features, not DNS capacity: Pro is $20/mo billed annually ($25 billed monthly); Business is $200/mo annually ($250 monthly); Enterprise is contract-based. DNS queries are not metered on any plan. EU residency only via the Data Localization Suite (Enterprise add-on). DPA applies to self-serve and enterprise customers.
Managed alternatives
At 50 hosted zones, 1B queries / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Cloudflare DNS: $0/yr estimated.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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