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Editorial score4.77.010.0
Plans with tracked prices131
DNS details
Anycast PoPs1416348
GeoDNSNoYesYes
Latency routingNoNoYes
ALIAS / CNAME flatteningNoYesYes
API / TerraformNoYesYes
Free tier limitsFree; domain count per account set by support (new accounts reportedly 1); API rate-limitedNo 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.Unlimited zones (add rate limited) and unmetered queries on Free; 200 records per zone for zones created since 2024-09-01
DDoS postureAnycast 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').'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.Every plan includes 'Unmetered DDoS Protection'. Authoritative DNS is served over anycast from Cloudflare's whole network. Enterprise can add DNS Firewall, a paid add-on that shields customers' own nameservers.
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Money-back period (days)—0 days0 days
Uptime SLA (%)0 %99 %100 %
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