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Best free DNS Hosting (2026)
6 dns hosting that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Amazon Route 53 at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, ClouDNS, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNS, NS1 Connect (IBM).
- Data current through: 2026-09-05. STALE marks a row with at least one plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 3 of 6 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | DNS Hosting | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon Route 53 | $0/mo | No | Yes | Yes | AWS-native architectures | aws.amazon.com |
| 2 | Cloudflare DNS STALE · 2026-06-15 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | any scale needing free DNS | cloudflare.com |
| 3 | ClouDNS | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | budget-conscious operators | cloudns.net |
| 4 | DNSimple | $0/mo | No | — | — | startups | dnsimple.com |
| 5 | Google Cloud DNS STALE · 2026-06-15 | $0/mo | No | — | Yes | GCP-native architectures | cloud.google.com |
| 6 | NS1 Connect (IBM) STALE · 2026-06-15 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | enterprises needing advanced traffic steering | ibm.com |