bunny.net DNS vs Amazon Route 53
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of bunny.net DNS and Amazon Route 53 built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose 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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose 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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- 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.
- 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.
3 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
bunny.net DNS 0
Amazon Route 53 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | bunny.net DNS | Amazon Route 53 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| 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. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| 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
- Amazon Route 53
- No
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- DNS Pricing — bunny.net ↗
“Free DNS. No query fees. Manage up to 500 DNS zones completely free. *If this is the only product you use, the $1 minimum account fee still a”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- AWS Price List — Amazon Route 53 ↗
“$0.50 per Hosted Zone for the first 25 Hosted Zones”
Read 2026-09-15 · official docs
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.
- 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.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- DNS Pricing — bunny.net ↗
“Free DNS. No query fees. Manage up to 500 DNS zones completely free. *If this is the only product you use, the $1 minimum account fee still a”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- AWS Price List — Amazon Route 53 ↗
“$0.10 per Hosted Zone for additional Hosted Zones”
Read 2026-09-15 · official docs
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%.
- 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%.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- DNS Pricing — bunny.net ↗
“Free DNS. No query fees. Manage up to 500 DNS zones completely free.”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Amazon Route 53 Service Level Agreement ↗
“Service Credit Percentage Less than 100% but greater than or equal to 99.99% 10% Less than 99.99% but greater than or equal to 99.95% 25%”
Read 2026-09-15 · official site
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
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.