# Google Cloud DNS pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Usage-Based). Among the 10 dns hosting we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** cloud.google.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Google Cloud CDN, Terraform, Firebase, Google Cloud Armor
**Best for:** GCP-native architectures; large zone-count deployments; teams already standardized on Google Cloud

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Usage-Based | $0 | — | flat | No base fee. Managed zones: $0.20/zone/month (first 25 zones), $0.10/zone/month (26-10,000 zones), $0.03/zone/month (over 10,000 zones). DNS queries: $0.40/million (0-1B/month), $0.20/million (over 1B/month). No data transfer charges for DNS queries. DNSSEC available. | cloud.google.com |

**Key features:** Tiered per-zone pricing with volume discounts at 10,000+ zones ($0.03/zone); SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified infrastructure; No data transfer out charges for DNS; DNSSEC support.

**Plan limits:** $0.20/zone/month minimum charge; No free tier for managed zones; Queries billed regardless of zone type; HIPAA coverage of Cloud DNS not explicitly confirmed.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-15
Provenance: cloud.google.com/dns/pricing returned truncated WebFetch output on 2026-06-15; per-zone and per-query figures corroborated via WebSearch citing the official pricing page. HIPAA: the draft claimed Cloud DNS is 'explicitly listed' as a HIPAA-covered product — this is NOT verifiable; Cloud DNS is not explicitly named in Google's public HIPAA covered-products list, so hipaa/baa set to null (null beats a guess).
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/dns-hosting/google-cloud-dns/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Google Cloud DNS's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-15 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/dns-hosting/google-cloud-dns/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl