Pricing for Cloud DNS

Public DNS queries

Resource category	Cost of 1 million requests per month, without VAT
Public DNS Requests — Authoritative	$0.256410
Public DNS Requests — Recursive	$0.25641

You will be billed for:

• Authoritative queries: Any requests for DNS records in a user's public zones from the internet or Yandex Cloud.

• Recursive queries: Queries from a Yandex Cloud VM for external domain names on the internet.

  Tip

  We recommend using caching resolvers, such as systemd-resolved,
  dnsmasq, or unbound. They can help you reduce the number of queries for external domain names, reducing
  costs.

You will not be billed for:

• Queries to private and service zones.

Starting December 6, 2021, the following is provided free of charge:

• The first one million (1000000) recursive queries from VMs each month.

  Once you have used up this free amount, you will be charged at the published rate.

  The unused balance of free services is reset at the end of the month.

• Queries for domain names of Yandex Cloud services (such as api.cloud.yandex.net) and those offered by Yandex (such as mail.yandex.com), both from VMs and the internet.

The cost of public DNS queries is based on usage.

For example, if the price of 1 million authoritative queries is $0.256410, and 50000 queries were made during this month,
the monthly cost will be:
(50000 / 1000000) × $0.256410 = 0.05 × $0.256410 = $0.0128205

E. g. if price of 1 million recursive requests is ₽20, and 1.2 million recursive queries were made from your VMs
between December 6, 2021 and December 31, 2021, the monthly cost will be:
(1,2 − 1,0) × ₽20 = 0,2 × ₽20 = ₽4
because first million recursive requests are provided free of charge, starting December 6, 2021.

DNS zones

You are charged for user-created public or internal DNS zones.

Service zones are provided free of charge.

Billing occurs per second. The cost is calculated in proportion to usage.

For example, the cost of owning 2 DNS zones for 360 hours will be the same as the cost of owning 1 DNS zone
for 720 hours.

Resource category	Cost of 1 user-created DNS zone per month, without VAT	Cost of 1 user-created DNS zone per hour, without VAT
DNS zone	$0.3205 *	$0.000044513

* For reference only. Assuming a 720-hour (30-day) month. Rounded to 4 decimal places. Hourly price is used in billing calculations.