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ClouDNS pricing (2026)
ClouDNS's paid plans start at $2.95/mo (Premium S) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from ClouDNS's own pricing page; 10 plans. Best for budget-conscious operators. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $2.95/mo (Premium S)
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA — · SOC 2 — · GDPR Yes
- Best for: budget-conscious operators; multi-zone hosting; geolocation DNS routing
As of · every figure below links to its source
ClouDNS plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free DNS STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0 | — | Flat monthly | Forever free. 1 zone, 50 DNS records, 500K queries/month, 4 unicast servers, 1 mail forward, 1 Dynamic DNS hostname. | cloudns.net |
| Premium S | $2.95 | — | Flat monthly | 5 zones, 200 DNS records, 5M queries/month, 4 Anycast Premium servers, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, published '1000%' Uptime SLA (10x downtime credit). | cloudns.net |
| Premium M | $4.95 | — | Flat monthly | 50 zones, 2,000 DNS records, 150M queries/month, 4 Anycast Premium servers, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, free SSL, '1000%' Uptime SLA. Most popular Premium tier. | cloudns.net |
| Premium L | $14.95 | — | Flat monthly | 400 zones, 20,000 DNS records, 500M queries/month, 4 Anycast Premium servers, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, free SSL, '1000%' Uptime SLA. | cloudns.net |
| DDoS Protected S | $5.95 | — | Flat monthly | 5 zones, 200 DNS records, 5M queries/month, 4 Anycast Protected servers, DDoS protection, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, '10000%' Uptime SLA. | cloudns.net |
| DDoS Protected M | $11.95 | — | Flat monthly | 50 zones, 2,000 DNS records, 150M queries/month, 4 Anycast Protected servers, DDoS protection, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, '10000%' Uptime SLA. Most popular DDoS tier. | cloudns.net |
| DDoS Protected L | $39.95 | — | Flat monthly | 400 zones, 20,000 DNS records, 1B queries/month, 4 Anycast Protected servers, DDoS protection, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, '10000%' Uptime SLA. | cloudns.net |
| GeoDNS Start | $9.95 | — | Flat monthly | 1 zone, 1,000 DNS records, 100M queries/month, geolocation routing, EDNS-client-subnet, DDoS protection, DNS Failover, DNSSEC, free SSL, '10000%' Uptime SLA. | cloudns.net |
| GeoDNS Professional | $44.95 | — | Flat monthly | 5 zones, 5,000 DNS records, 500M queries/month, full GeoDNS feature set. | cloudns.net |
| GeoDNS Business | $79.95 | — | Flat monthly | 10 zones, 10,000 DNS records, 1B queries/month, full GeoDNS feature set. | cloudns.net |
Last verified 2026-11-01. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 10 plans above is marked. Fetched cloudns.net/premium/, cloudns.net/ddos-protected-plans/, and cloudns.net/geodns/ on 2026-06-15. All plan prices confirmed exactly. SLA values are published literally as '1000%' (Premium) and '10000%' (DDoS/GeoDNS) — i.e. 10x/100x downtime credit, not a literal uptime percentage. GDPR/ISO 27001 confirmed via cloudns.net about-us page. The page this record cites as its source (https://www.cloudns.net/premium-dns/) is gone: on 2026-09-11 it answered 200 and redirected to https://www.cloudns.net/, both from a residential connection and from a datacenter on another continent — so the page is gone rather than withheld from one asker. Nothing else in this record can stand in for it, so re-sourcing needs a live page read; the figure stands as last read.
Price changes
Price on record
$2.95/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of ClouDNS, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by ClouDNS. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Dead citation disclosed, price unchanged. https://www.cloudns.net/premium-dns/ was read twice on 2026-09-11: it answered 200 and redirected to https://www.cloudns.net/ from a residential connection and answered 200 and redirected to https://www.cloudns.net/ from a datacenter on another continent. One reading is not evidence — 27 pages this sweep called gone answered the second machine perfectly well — so only the ones both vantages agree on are written down. The record now says the link is a dead end. No figure changed: a price read on a day was read on that day, and the page going away later does not unread it.
Capabilities
Integrations: DNSSEC, DNS Failover, Let's Encrypt SSL, Dynamic DNS.
Key features: ISO 27001 certified; Multiple product lines: Premium, DDoS-Protected, GeoDNS; High downtime-credit SLA on DDoS-Protected plans; Permanent free tier with unicast servers.
Plan limits: Free tier: 1 zone, 50 records, 500K queries/month; Premium S: 5 zones, 5M queries/month; SLA values published as 1000%/10000% are downtime-credit multipliers, not literal uptime %; No published overage rates — plan upgrade required.
Frequently asked questions
How much does ClouDNS cost?
ClouDNS's paid plans start at $2.95/mo (Premium S), and it lists a $0 plan (Free DNS); it has 10 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
What are cheaper alternatives to ClouDNS?
Cheaper DNS hosting than ClouDNS (entry $2.95/mo) include Bunny DNS at $1/mo. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does ClouDNS support HIPAA?
ClouDNS's public pages do not say whether it supports HIPAA. Its public pages also state GDPR compliance.
Does ClouDNS have a free plan?
Yes — ClouDNS publishes a free tier.
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This standing as a plaque
ClouDNS currently holds a bronze deskmark here — Rank 6 of 10 · DNS Hosting. Anyone may show it. There is nothing to apply for, nothing to pay, and displaying it changes no score: the standing comes from the published algorithm, which never reads commission data. We never ask anyone to show it, and its link carries rel="nofollow".
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