Bunny DNS

What Bunny DNS actually is

Bunny DNS is the authoritative DNS service of Bunny.net, the Slovenian CDN and edge platform. It answers queries from a dual-stack anycast network with both IPv4 and IPv6 natively supported, and it is tightly wired into the rest of Bunny's product line: a Pull Zone record type that points traffic at Bunny CDN, scriptable records backed by Bunny's Edge Scripting runtime, and a dashboard that shows DNS health and CDN status in the same place. It belongs in our DNS providers comparison as the pragmatic choice for anyone already living in Bunny's ecosystem.

The headline change is price: Bunny made DNS hosting free. The documentation states it plainly — DNS hosting is free for up to 500 domains per account, with no per-query charges, and smart records and health monitoring included. If DNS is the only Bunny service you use, the account-wide $1 per month minimum usage charge still applies; if you already use Bunny CDN or storage, DNS rides along at no extra cost. This replaces the old per-query metering (long advertised around $0.005 per 1,000 queries), and the vendor's own blog post "We're making Bunny DNS free" frames the change as removing query fees entirely, with no query limits and nothing critical locked behind an enterprise plan.

Feature depth is the other surprise at this price. Records cover the standard types plus Bunny-specific Pull Zone and Script records. Record sets give you weighted routing and automatic failover across multiple answers; smart records add geographic and latency-based routing; health monitoring removes offline endpoints from DNS responses automatically. A records you add are watched by default via ping or HTTP checks in the dashboard. Custom nameservers on your own domain are included at no extra cost, and analytics come with full raw logging queryable through the dashboard or API. Migration is handled with either an automatic scan of your existing records or a BIND zone file import, both previewable before you cut over. And the Scriptable DNS option lets you write JavaScript handlers for the routing logic you would otherwise need a dedicated load balancer for — health-based failover, canary rollouts, A/B splits.

Security is not an afterthought here. Bunny mitigates large-scale L3/L4 DDoS attacks at the edge, applies per-IP DNS rate limiting at layer 7, and supports DNSSEC configured in a few clicks. For an authoritative DNS service these are table-stakes features, but not every cheap DNS host includes DNSSEC plus rate limiting plus health-checked failover for free.

Pricing: what you really pay

The honest answer: nothing for DNS itself, up to 500 domains, with unlimited queries. The only charge is the platform-wide $1 per month minimum account usage, and it is waived in practice whenever you consume any other Bunny service. That is the entire price list. There are no zone fees, no query tiers, no per-record charges, no enterprise-only feature gates on routing or DNSSEC.

We appreciate the direction. Query-based DNS pricing punishes exactly the customers DNS is best at serving — busy sites — and Bunny's removal of it makes cost forecasting trivial. The one caveat worth knowing: "free up to 500 domains" is an account-level limit, and the $1 minimum means the account needs a payment method even for DNS-only use. Beyond that, the pricing page's wider Bunny numbers matter only if you buy delivery or storage too: Bunny advertises $50 for 5 TB of Europe/North America CDN traffic versus $165 at CDN77, $220 at BytePlus, $125 at CacheFly, $425+ at CloudFront, and $600+ at Fastly, and a 24 ms worldwide median latency against 42.71 ms for CDN77 and 38.32 ms for BytePlus — figures they attribute to CDNPerf user data and public price listings from March 2025. We would treat vendor-published comparisons as vendor-published, but the CDN pricing math is consistent with what we see across our benchmarks.

Performance & infrastructure

Bunny's DNS page claims 36+ global DNS PoPs with latency below 20 ms in most regions, and describes the network as redundant by design with no single points of failure. The DNS platform itself runs dual-stack anycast, so IPv6-only resolvers get first-class treatment rather than a translation layer. The company positions the same infrastructure as backing one of the busiest CDN platforms on the planet, and its marketing claims 1.5 million websites powered and 85,000+ customers — treat those as marketing counts, but they point at real scale.

What we can verify is architectural: anycast with dozens of PoPs, health-checked answer rotation, latency-based steering, and monitoring baked into every A record. That combination is what we look for when we rank DNS providers on more than query price. Independent DNSPerf-style measurements move around month to month; Bunny's own page cites 24 ms worldwide median for its network, and our view is that the DNS path is fast enough for essentially any real workload, with Cloudflare's larger fleet the only clear step up in raw reach.

On the reliability side, Bunny has operated since the mid-2010s and publishes an SLA of 99.99% uptime for its CDN platform — for DNS specifically we did not find a separate contractual SLA percentage on the pages reviewed, so we leave that spec empty rather than borrow the CDN number. The docs carry current maintenance stamps (October 2026), the API and CLI cover zones, records, and scripts, and the redundant-networks design plus multi-POD anycast is the actual resilience story. The ecosystem is the weaker leg: the community, third-party integrations, and tooling around Bunny DNS are smaller than Cloudflare's, and Terraform-style provider coverage is thinner.

Where it falls short

The 500-domain cap is generous for individuals and small agencies, but a registrar or domain-heavy portfolio will hit it; there is no published overage path on the pricing page, so at that point you are talking to sales. The free product is also, commercially, a feature of the Bunny platform — expect the dashboard to be full of CDN, Stream, and storage upsells, and expect DNS conveniences like the Pull Zone record type to pull you toward Bunny's paid delivery products.

Compare the advanced tooling against Cloudflare honestly and gaps appear: no free universal SSL proxy, no Workers-style edge compute on the DNS path beyond Bunny's own Scriptable DNS, no registrar, and a much smaller body of community knowledge when something weird happens. Scriptable DNS requires the Edge Scripting product and JavaScript familiarity — powerful, but it is another Bunny surface to learn rather than a standard like an ISC zone file.

Support is the other limit. Bunny offers ticket support and an active community presence, but no enterprise support organization at this price. For DNS — a service where an outage is instantly total — some teams will want a provider with contractual DNS SLA terms and a phone number. Bunny's published guarantees cover the platform broadly; if per-product DNS SLAs are a procurement requirement, ask before you migrate the zones that matter most.

Who should pick this

Our pick for anyone already using Bunny CDN, Stream, or Storage who wants DNS in the same console for effectively zero cost — that combination is genuinely hard to beat. It is also a strong standalone choice for individuals, small teams, and agencies managing up to 500 zones who want health-checked failover, latency routing, DNSSEC, and scriptable logic without a query bill. If you are leaving a metered DNS provider on principle, this is where we would point you.

We would not pick it as the DNS layer for a domain registrar-scale portfolio, for enterprises that need a contractual DNS SLA and named support, or for teams standardized on Cloudflare's wider platform where DNS is the gateway to proxying, WAF, and zero-trust products. And if you need your DNS provider to be boring and universally documented, Cloudflare remains the default we compare everything else to.

Key takeaways

• DNS hosting is free for up to 500 domains per account with no per-query charges; only the $1/month account minimum applies, and other Bunny usage covers it.
• Replaces the old $0.005 per 1,000 queries model — one of the cleaner pricing stories in DNS providers.
• 36+ anycast DNS PoPs, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, DNSSEC, L3/L4 DDoS mitigation, and per-IP rate limiting included.
• Health monitoring, weighted record sets, and geographic/latency-based smart records cover failover without extra services.
• Scriptable DNS (JavaScript at the edge) is powerful but ties routing logic to Bunny's platform.
• Best inside the Bunny ecosystem; Cloudflare still wins on ecosystem depth, registrar, and enterprise support.

Sources

• https://bunny.net/docs/dns
• https://bunny.net/pricing/dns/
• https://bunny.net/dns
• https://bunny.net/pricing
• https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
• https://bunny.net/about/