European DNS providers
4 of the 11 DNS services we track have a parent company in Europe: Bunny DNS, deSEC, Gcore Managed DNS and Hetzner DNS. At 50 hosted zones, 1B queries / month, the lowest European estimate is $0/yr for Bunny DNS, the same as the cheapest US-owned option, Cloudflare DNS. Only Hetzner DNS offers EU data residency on a self-serve plan.
The median estimate is $0/yr across European services and $5,100/yr across US-owned ones, at the same usage.
“European” means the ultimate parent company is in the EU/EEA, the UK or Switzerland. That describes ownership, not where your data is stored or every law that applies. How we define jurisdiction.
European DNS services by estimated bill
| Service | Parent company in | EU residency (self-serve) | Est. yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunny DNSAnycast authoritative DNS from bunny.net with scriptable and smart records, free up to 500 zones. | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | No / not documented | $0/yr$0 zones + $0 queriesPublished rates |
| deSECFree, donation-funded DNS hosting with automatic DNSSEC, run by a Berlin non-profit on open-source software. | 🇩🇪 GermanydeSEC e.V. | No / not documented | $0/yr$0 zones + $0 queriesPublished rates |
| Hetzner DNSFree authoritative DNS hosting managed through the Hetzner Console and Cloud API. | 🇩🇪 Germany | Yes | $0/yr$0 zones + $0 queriesPublished rates |
| Gcore Managed DNSAnycast managed DNS from Luxembourg-based Gcore with GeoDNS, health checks and failover. | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | No / not documented | $2,647/yr$0 zones + $218 queriesPublished rates |
At 50 hosted zones, 1B queries / month. Uses each vendor’s first paid tier; volume discounts (e.g. Route 53 zones past 25, queries past 1B) lower real bills further. Sources last checked 2026-10-06. Change the usage to see bills for your workload.
European alternatives to US services
- Amazon Route 53 ($5,100/yr): Bunny DNS is estimated at $0/yr, $5,100/yr less.
- Cloudflare DNS ($0/yr): Bunny DNS matches it at $0/yr. Compare them.
- Google Cloud DNS ($4,920/yr): Bunny DNS is estimated at $0/yr, $4,920/yr less.
- DNSimple ($7,844/yr): Bunny DNS is estimated at $0/yr, $7,844/yr less.
Bills leave out features, performance, support and migration work. Check the provider notes before you switch.
US-owned services with EU data residency
These offer EU data residency on a self-serve plan, but their parent company is in the US.
- Amazon Route 53 — AWS's managed authoritative DNS service, billed per hosted zone and per query with no plan fee.