Cloudflare vs ClouDNS
DNS — side-by-side specs, real prices, and how each scores on our methodology.
ClouDNS 9.5 /10 editorial Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names
from $0 /mo ✓ renews at the same price
Cloudflare scores higher on our methodology (10.0 vs 9.5).
Spec by spec
| Cloudflare | ClouDNS | |
|---|---|---|
| Anycast PoPs | 348 | 65 |
| GeoDNS | Yes | Yes |
| Payment methods | Card, PayPal, Crypto (stablecoins) | Card, PayPal, Crypto (BTC, ETH), SEPA, Bank wire, Alipay |
| Latency routing | Yes | No |
| Support channels | Docs only, Ticket, Chat 24/7 | Chat 24/7, Ticket |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back period | 0 days | 7 days |
| ALIAS / CNAME flattening | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime SLA | 100 % | 100 % |
| API / Terraform | Yes | Yes |
| KYC required | Email only | Email only |
| Free tier limits | Unlimited zones (add rate limited) and unmetered queries on Free; 200 records per zone for zones created since 2024-09-01 | 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 |
| Anonymity | Full | Full |
| DDoS posture | 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. | 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. |
Scores come from our published methodology; renewal prices always shown beside intro prices. Full profiles: Cloudflare · ClouDNS