bunny.net DNS vs Google Cloud DNS
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of bunny.net DNS and Google Cloud DNS 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 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.
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.
- 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.
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
Google Cloud DNS 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | bunny.net DNS | Google Cloud DNS |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | 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. |
| 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% for the Google-managed authoritative name servers, stated as a Service Level Objective rather than a percentage below it. |
| Compliance | ||
| 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
- Google Cloud DNS
- 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
- Cloud DNS pricing ↗
“Managed zones 0 month to 25 month $0.000273973 / 1 hour, per 1 month / account 25 month to 10,000 month $0.000136986 / 1 hour, per 1 month / account”
Read 2026-09-15 · official 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.
- 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.
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
- Cloud DNS pricing ↗
“Managed zone pricing Hourly Hourly Monthly Monthly Item Price (USD) Managed zones 0 month to 25 month $0.000273973 / 1 hour, per 1 month / account”
Read 2026-09-15 · official 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%.
- Google Cloud DNS
- 100% for the Google-managed authoritative name servers, stated as a Service Level Objective rather than a percentage below it.
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
- Cloud DNS Service Level Agreement ↗
“the Google managed Authoritative Name Servers to Customer of 100% (the "Service Level Objective" or "SLO")”
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 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.