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| Field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||
| Editorial score | 9.5 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 4.7 |
| Cheapest plan | $0/mo | $0/mo | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Renews at | ✓ same | ✓ same | ✓ same | ✓ same |
| Plans with tracked prices | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| DNS details | ||||
| Anycast PoPs | 65 | 348 | 16 | 14 |
| GeoDNS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Latency routing | No | Yes | No | No |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ALIAS / CNAME flattening | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| API / Terraform | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free tier limits | 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 | Unlimited zones (add rate limited) and unmetered queries on Free; 200 records per zone for zones created since 2024-09-01 | 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. | Free; domain count per account set by support (new accounts reportedly 1); API rate-limited |
| DDoS posture | 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. | 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. | '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. | 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'). |
| Provider | ||||
| Payment methods | Card, PayPal, Crypto (BTC, ETH), SEPA, Bank wire, Alipay | Card, PayPal, Crypto (stablecoins) | Card | — |
| Support channels | Chat 24/7, Ticket | Docs only, Ticket, Chat 24/7 | Ticket | Ticket |
| Money-back period (days) | 7 days | 0 days | 0 days | — |
| Uptime SLA (%) | 100 % | 100 % | 99 % | 0 % |
| KYC required | Email only | Email only | Email only | Email only |
| Anonymity | Full | Full | Partial | Full |
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