# Cloudflare DNS

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/dns-hosting/cloudflare-dns/

Authoritative DNS on Cloudflare's anycast network, free with any plan and with no query charge at any volume.

## Who it suits

Any domain you are already putting behind Cloudflare. Authoritative DNS on its anycast network costs nothing, meters nothing, and has no volume at which that changes — the query bill other providers charge simply does not exist here.

Consider something else if You want DNS bought separately from a CDN and a proxy. Cloudflare prices DNS at zero because it is a way into the rest of the platform, and the product page names no paid DNS tier at all — what the account costs is decided by everything else on it.

## iScore

88 / 100 (80% interval 78–97), rank 2 of 5 in dns-hosting.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every dns-hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/dns-hosting/cloudflare-dns/alternatives/

- Price: 80 (49–100), weight 36%, 1 of 3 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_offer_type, minimum_paid_price
- Capabilities: 100 (94–100), weight 29%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 85 (79–91), weight 21%, 1 of 2 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: uptime_sla
- Evidence: 87 (87–87), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/dns/), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: None for DNS itself. The product page prices it at nothing and names no paid DNS tier; what a Cloudflare account costs is decided by the other products on it. ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/dns/), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Free, with no separate meter for zones or queries. DNS comes with any Cloudflare plan rather than being priced on its own. ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/dns/), read 2026-09-15)

### Infrastructure

- Edge network: Supported ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/dns/), read 2026-09-15)

### Compliance

- DNSSEC: Supported — Cloudflare signs the zone and generates the DS record for you ([source](https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [Cloudflare DNS vs DNSimple](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudflare-dns-vs-dnsimple/)
- [Cloudflare DNS vs Google Cloud DNS](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudflare-dns-vs-google-cloud-dns/)
- [Cloudflare DNS vs Amazon Route 53](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudflare-dns-vs-amazon-route53/)