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