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.
Domain name forwarding
When using a domain name as a forwarding target in the outbound forwarding zone, you will be charged for the query required to resolve the forwarding target to an IP address, in addition to the standard query charges for your forwarding zone.
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 |
|
$0.50 per health check per month |
| Internal premium health checks |
|
$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.
DNS Armor advanced threat detection pricing
DNS Armor advanced threat detection is billed based on pay-as-you-go usage. Usage is calculated for each project every hour, and the final monthly bill is the sum of these hourly charges.
Usage is measured in units. One unit represents a single workload (a Compute Engine VM or a Google Kubernetes Engine node) generating up to 150 internet-bound DNS queries within a one-hour period.
Pricing per unit (Progressive Tiers)
| Monthly Usage (per billing account) | Price (per unit) |
|---|---|
| 0 - 15,000 units | $0.01 |
| 15,001 - 75,000 units | $0.005 |
| Over 75,000 units | $0.0024 |
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
How usage is calculated
Every hour, for each project where DNS Armor is enabled, Cloud DNS calculates the billable usage for all monitored VPC networks (VPCs that are not in the exclusion list). Usage is determined by comparing two metrics. You are billed for the greater of the following two values:
- Baseline Usage: The number of unique workloads (e.g., unique VM instance IDs) in monitored VPC networks that generated at least one internet-bound DNS query during that hour.
- Consumed Usage: The total number of internet-bound DNS queries generated by all workloads in monitored VPC networks during that hour, divided by 150 (rounded up).
Shared VPC: For Shared VPC architectures, billing is attributed to the Host Project where DNS Armor is enabled. All workloads in Service Projects attached to the enabled Host VPC are included in the Host Project's usage calculation.
Pricing examples
Managed zones and queries pricing examples
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 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).
Health checks pricing examples
| 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.
DNS Armor pricing example
The following table illustrates how billable units are calculated for a single project over a four-hour period using a high-volume scenario.
| Hour | Active Workloads (Baseline) | Total Queries | Consumed Calculation (Queries / 150) | Billable Units (Max of Baseline vs. Consumed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 / 150 = 1,000 | 1,000 (Usage matched baseline) |
| 2 | 10,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 / 150 = 4,000 | 10,000 (Billed for active workloads) |
| 3 | 1,500 | 1,350,000 | 1,350,000 / 150 = 9,000 | 9,000 (Billed for high query volume) |
| 4 | 2,000 | 9,000,000 | 9,000,000 / 150 = 60,000 | 60,000 (Billed for high query volume) |
| total | 80,000 |
Bill Calculation: At the end of the month, the total billable units are summed across the billing account. Assuming this 80,000 units is the only usage in the billing account for the month, the cost is calculated using progressive tiers:
- Tier 1: The first 15,000 units are charged at $0.01.
- 15,000 * $0.01 = $150.00
- Tier 2: The next 60,000 units (up to the 75,000 limit) are charged at $0.005.
- 60,000 * $0.005 = $300.00
- Tier 3: The remaining 5,000 units (80,000 - 75,000) are charged at $0.0024.
- 5,000 * $0.0024 = $12.00
Total Cost: $150.00 + $300.00 + $12.00 = $462.00
What's next
- Read the Cloud DNS documentation.
- Get started with Cloud DNS.
- Try the Pricing calculator.
- Learn about Cloud DNS solutions and use cases.