# bunny.net DNS vs Google Cloud DNS

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/bunny-dns-vs-google-cloud-dns/

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

## At a glance

| Criterion | bunny.net DNS | Google Cloud DNS |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | Two meters, one of them hourly. Managed zones are billed per hour — $0.000273973 for the first 25, falling twice above that — and queries by the million, with routing-policy queries priced higher than regular ones. |
| 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% for the Google-managed authoritative name servers, stated as a Service Level Objective rather than a percentage below it. |
| DNSSEC | Supported — Cryptographic validation of DNS responses, per its docs | Supported — Cloud DNS creates and rotates the keys and signs the zone itself |

## Where they differ

### Free tier

- bunny.net DNS: Yes ([source](https://bunny.net/pricing/dns/))
- Google Cloud DNS: No ([source](https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing))

### 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/))
- Google Cloud DNS: Two meters, one of them hourly. Managed zones are billed per hour — $0.000273973 for the first 25, falling twice above that — and queries by the million, with routing-policy queries priced higher than regular ones. ([source](https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing))

### 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/))
- Google Cloud DNS: 100% for the Google-managed authoritative name servers, stated as a Service Level Objective rather than a percentage below it. ([source](https://cloud.google.com/dns/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 Google Cloud DNS if An estate already on Google Cloud, where DNS should be another line on the same bill and another resource in the same IAM. Zones are billed by the hour and queries by the million, with no plan to pick and no minimum to clear.

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: Google Cloud DNS — You want to know what a month costs without doing arithmetic. A zone priced at $0.000273973 an hour is roughly twenty cents a month, and routing-policy queries cost nearly twice a regular one — both true, neither obvious, and both free elsewhere.

## 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: Google Cloud DNS: No minimum and no plan. A managed zone costs $0.000273973 an hour — about $0.20 a month — and queries are $0.40 per million up to a billion, $0.20 above that. No magnitude is recorded because an hourly zone rate is not a monthly plan fee.
- 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: Google Cloud DNS: $0.40 per million regular queries up to one billion a month, $0.20 per million above it. Routing-policy queries — geolocation, weighted round robin, failover — are $0.70 per million, halving to $0.35 past a billion.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Free tier: bunny.net DNS or Google Cloud DNS?**

bunny.net DNS: Yes
Google Cloud DNS: No

**Should I choose bunny.net DNS or Google Cloud DNS?**

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 Google Cloud DNS if An estate already on Google Cloud, where DNS should be another line on the same bill and another resource in the same IAM. Zones are billed by the hour and queries by the million, with no plan to pick and no minimum to clear.