# bunny.net DNS vs Amazon Route 53

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/bunny-dns-vs-amazon-route53/

Every value below is read from bunny.net DNS's and Amazon Route 53's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | bunny.net DNS | Amazon Route 53 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Pricing model | Nothing per zone and nothing per query up to 500 zones — the only charge is a $1 minimum on the account, and only if DNS is all you use. Past 500 zones the page says contact sales. | Per hosted zone and per million queries, with the zone rate falling fivefold after the first 25 and the query rate halving after the first billion. Health checks and DNS firewall rules are metered separately again. |
| Uptime SLA | None published. bunny.net/dns/sla redirects to a not-found page and the DNS pricing page names no uptime figure — which is a coherent position for a service that charges nothing, and worth seeing beside Route 53's and Google's 100%. | 100%. AWS defines the monthly uptime percentage as 100% minus the minutes a hosted zone was unavailable, and any month below 100% earns a service credit — 10% down to 99.99%, 25% down to 99.95%. |

## Where they differ

### Free tier

- bunny.net DNS: Yes ([source](https://bunny.net/pricing/dns/))
- Amazon Route 53: No ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRoute53/current/index.json))

### Pricing model

- bunny.net DNS: Nothing per zone and nothing per query up to 500 zones — the only charge is a $1 minimum on the account, and only if DNS is all you use. Past 500 zones the page says contact sales. ([source](https://bunny.net/pricing/dns/))
- Amazon Route 53: Per hosted zone and per million queries, with the zone rate falling fivefold after the first 25 and the query rate halving after the first billion. Health checks and DNS firewall rules are metered separately again. ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRoute53/current/index.json))

### Uptime SLA

- bunny.net DNS: None published. bunny.net/dns/sla redirects to a not-found page and the DNS pricing page names no uptime figure — which is a coherent position for a service that charges nothing, and worth seeing beside Route 53's and Google's 100%. ([source](https://bunny.net/pricing/dns/))
- Amazon Route 53: 100%. AWS defines the monthly uptime percentage as 100% minus the minutes a hosted zone was unavailable, and any month below 100% earns a service credit — 10% down to 99.99%, 25% down to 99.95%. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/))

## Which should you choose?

Pick bunny.net DNS if Up to 500 zones with no query fees and no per-zone charge, from a company that will also serve the traffic. The only cost is a $1 minimum on the account, and only if DNS is the one thing you use there.

Pick Amazon Route 53 if A 100% uptime commitment on your nameservers, which only Google matches here, plus the AWS integrations — alias records to load balancers and CloudFront, health checks, and IAM on the zone itself.

Consider something else: bunny.net DNS — You run more than 500 zones. Past that the page stops publishing and says contact sales, which is a worse answer than DNSimple's $0.50 per zone if the number you need to plan against is the 501st.

Consider something else: Amazon Route 53 — You want DNS to be free. $0.50 a zone and $0.40 per million queries is small until you run hundreds of domains, and Cloudflare and bunny.net charge nothing for either at any volume.

## Documented by only one

- Kind of free offer: bunny.net DNS: Free tier
- What the free plan includes: bunny.net DNS: Up to 500 DNS zones, with standard and smart queries both free. A $1 minimum account fee applies if DNS is the only bunny.net product you use.
- Entry paid plan: Amazon Route 53: $0.50 per hosted zone per month for the first 25, then $0.10 for each additional zone. Extra record sets within a zone are $0.0015 a month each.
- Sites or apps included: bunny.net DNS: 500 DNS zones on the free tier; beyond that the page offers no published price and directs you to sales.
- Query price: Amazon Route 53: $0.40 per million resolver queries for the first billion a month, $0.20 per million above it. Queries to latency-based-routing alias records are free of charge.
- DNSSEC: bunny.net DNS: Supported — Cryptographic validation of DNS responses, per its docs

## Questions this comparison answers

**Free tier: bunny.net DNS or Amazon Route 53?**

bunny.net DNS: Yes
Amazon Route 53: No

**Should I choose bunny.net DNS or Amazon Route 53?**

Pick bunny.net DNS if Up to 500 zones with no query fees and no per-zone charge, from a company that will also serve the traffic. The only cost is a $1 minimum on the account, and only if DNS is the one thing you use there.
Pick Amazon Route 53 if A 100% uptime commitment on your nameservers, which only Google matches here, plus the AWS integrations — alias records to load balancers and CloudFront, health checks, and IAM on the zone itself.