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Google Cloud DNS

iScore58–75 · #5/5
cloud.google.com/dns · DNS hosting
SEPT 2026 audit

Managed authoritative DNS on Google's network, billed by the hour per managed zone and by the million queries.

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Entry paid planNo 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.
Free tierNo
CategoryDNS hosting

Updated 6 criteria comparedSources last checked

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

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 if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
3 criteria
Free tierNo
Sources (1) →
  • 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

Entry paid planNo 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.
Sources (1) →
  • Cloud DNS pricing ↗

    “Regular queries 0 count to 1,000,000,000 count $0.40 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000,000 count and above $0.20 /”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Pricing modelTwo 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 (1) →
  • 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

Infrastructure
1 criteria
Uptime SLA100% for the Google-managed authoritative name servers, stated as a Service Level Objective rather than a percentage below it.
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Observability
1 criteria
Query price$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.
Sources (1) →
  • Cloud DNS pricing ↗

    “Query pricing Item Price (USD) Regular queries 0 count to 1,000,000,000 count $0.40 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000,000 count and above $0.20 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account Routing policy queries 0 count to 1,000,000,000 count $0.70 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Compliance
1 criteria
DNSSECSupported — Cloud DNS creates and rotates the keys and signs the zone itself
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