Cloud DNS pricing

With Cloud DNS pricing, the charge is per zone per month (regardless of whether you use your zone), and you also pay for queries against your zones.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Pricing table

The following pricing applies to all zone types: public, private, and forwarding. All zone types are aggregated for purposes of pricing. For example, if you have 10 public zones, 10 private zones, and 10 forwarding zones, then your pricing is based on having 30 zones. All queries are aggregated as well, regardless of zone type.

You can use labels to label zones in certain ways. You can then use these labels to see per-label breakdowns in your billing.

Query pricing

Number of queries Regular queries Routing policy queries
0-1 billion $0.40 per million queries per month $0.70 per million queries per month
Over 1 billion $0.20 per million queries per month $0.35 per million queries per month
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Managed zone pricing

Managed zones* Price
0-25 $0.20 per managed zone per month
26-10,000 $0.10 per managed zone per month for each additional zone after 25
Over 10,000 $0.03 per managed zone per month for each additional zone over 10,000
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

* Managed zone pricing is calculated based on the number of managed zones that exist at a time, prorated by the percentage of the month they exist. This prorating is measured by hour. Zones that exist for a fraction of an hour are counted as having existed for the whole hour.

Cloud DNS usage does not result in any data transfer out charges.

Pricing for health checks

Health check type Capabilities Price
Internal fast health checks
  • Default 5s probes (configurable)
  • SSL, TCP, and HTTP protocols
$0.50 per health check per month
Internal premium health checks
  • Default 5s probes (configurable)
  • SSL, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, and gRPC protocols
  • Content-based health checks (all protocols except gRPC)
$2.00 per health check per month
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Pricing example

The following table shows sample Cloud DNS usage patterns and the potential costs per month:

Usages Standard website Enterprise Web virtual hosting provider
Zones 5 200 100,000
Zone cost 5 * $0.20 = $1.00 25 * $0.20 = $5.00
175 * $0.10 = $17.50

25 * $0.20 = $5.00
9,975 * $0.10 = $997.50

90,000 * $0.03 = $2,700.00

Monthly queries 10,000,000 50,000,000 100,000,000
Queries cost 10 * $0.40 = $4.00 50 * $0.40 = $20.00 100 * $0.40 = $40.00
Total cost $5.00/month $42.50/month $3,742.50/month
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Pricing for queries is proportional to usage. So 500,000 queries would be charged $0.20 (half the price of 1 million queries).

Post GA pricing example for health checks

Resources Usage Formula Estimated cost per month
Internal fast health check Single service deployed using 3 Layer 4 internal load balancers, situated in us-east, us-central, and us-west 3 * 30 days @ $0.50 per month $1.5
Internal premium health check Single service deployed using 3 Layer 7 internal load balancers, situated in us-east, us-central, and us-west 3 * 30 days @ $2.0 per month $6.0
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

To view billing reports, see View your billing reports and cost trends.

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