3 of 4 providers · up to 4 at a time← card view
| Field | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Editorial score | 4.7 | 9.5 | 7.0 |
| Plans with tracked prices | 1 | 10 | 3 |
| DNS details | |||
| Anycast PoPs | 14 | 65 | 16 |
| GeoDNS | No | Yes | Yes |
| ALIAS / CNAME flattening | No | Yes | Yes |
| API / Terraform | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier limits | Free; domain count per account set by support (new accounts reportedly 1); API rate-limited | Free DNS: 1 zone, 50 records, 500K queries/month, 4 unicast (non-anycast) nameservers, no DNSSEC/API/secondary; zones idle 30+ days may be deleted | No free tier. Solo has a $0 base fee but bills $0.50 per zone per month, and every plan requires a card for the 30-day trial. |
| DDoS posture | Anycast frontends on NetActuate's network, split across two networks/ASNs. deSEC publishes no specific DDoS-mitigation capacity or service, and the Terms give no availability guarantee ('best-effort'). | Dedicated 'DDoS Protected DNS' and GeoDNS plans run on 'Anycast Protected' servers. Premium is anycast with no DDoS protection listed, and Free is unicast. No mitigation capacity is published. | 'Multi-layered DDoS defense' on all plans, running on DNSimple-owned edge infrastructure. Signature detection runs at the cache layer. No mitigation capacity figures are published. Cloudflare DNS Firewall was removed in 2026. |
| Provider | |||
| Payment methods | — | Card, PayPal, Crypto (BTC, ETH), SEPA, Bank wire, Alipay | Card |
| Support channels | Ticket | Chat 24/7, Ticket | Ticket |
| Money-back period (days) | — | 7 days | 0 days |
| Uptime SLA (%) | 0 % | 100 % | 99 % |
| Anonymity | Full | Full | Partial |
Prices show each provider's cheapest plan. Open a provider for all plans and full specs.