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Cloudflare DNS

Enterprise-grade authoritative DNS with the fastest response time

Cloudflare DNS delivers secure and resilient DNS service with the fastest response time (11ms on average), unparalleled redundancy (locations in over 335 cities), and advanced security.

BENEFITS OF CLOUDFLARE DNS
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Industry-leading performance

Our authoritative DNS is the fastest in the world, offering DNS lookup speeds of 11ms on average and ensuring websites load as fast as possible.

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Unmatched reliability

Our global network offers optimal redundancy, with DNS resolution available at each of our data centers across over 335 cities.

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Stop DNS-based attacks

Cloudflare offers built-in DDoS protection and one-click DNSSEC to ensure your applications are always safeguarded from DNS attacks.

DNS made easy

All your domains can be managed through our user-friendly interface or via an API, without regard to where you host your Internet properties.

HOW IT WORKS

Our global network ensures DNS resolves quickly

The Cloudflare global network interconnects with over 13,000 networks, ensuring users anywhere in the world can quickly load your websites and applications.

Cloudflare DNS also comes with built-in security, mitigating DDoS attacks that can degrade response times and authenticating DNS responses with DNSSEC to ensure users are not misdirected to malicious websites.

Learn how Cloudflare DNS can protect against cyber attacks

ANALYST RECOGNITION
Cloudflare named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2023 GigaOm Radar for DNS Security

Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2023 GigaOm Radar for DNS Security report.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024 Vendor Assessment

Cloudflare named a 'Leader' in 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.

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What our customers are saying

"Cloudflare has an incredibly large network and infrastructure to stop really large attacks on the DNS system. We just get clean requests and never have to deal with malicious traffic or attacks on the DNS infrastructure."

Engineer — Digital Ocean

Top DNS use cases

Cloudflare DNS keeps your DNS secure and reliable, with simple-to-use advanced options for managing and securing your domains

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Unlimited and unmetered DDoS mitigation

Stop attacks on your DNS by relying on our network, which has capacity 23x higher than the largest attacks ever recorded.

Prevent email phishing

Easily configure email security DNS records to stop phishers from sending emails from your domain.

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Advanced DNS analytics

Get in-depth, real-time analytics for the health of your DNS traffic, accessible from the Cloudflare Dashboard.

Helping organizations worldwide optimize and secure their applications


Upgrade your website security and performance with free DNS & so much more!
Free
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.

$0/month
Add-ons billed monthly
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Pro
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.

$20/month
When billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
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Business
For small businesses operating online.

$200/month
When billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
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Enterprise
For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.

Custom
Billed annually
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Fast, Easy-to-use DNS
Fast, Easy-to-use DNS
Fast responsive times globally and near-instant updates.

Unmetered DDoS Protection
Unmetered DDoS Protection
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures websites and applications while ensuring the performance of legitimate traffic is not compromised.

Role-based Account Control
Role-based Account Control
Role-based access for Cloudflare accounts enables organizations to collaborate across one Cloudflare account, and use roles-based permissions to control access. Each user is assigned an individual API key and can use two-factor authentication to protect their own account.

Free Managed Ruleset
Free Managed Ruleset
Free Cloudflare-managed ruleset protecting against highest severity vulnerabilities.

Bot Mitigation
Bot Mitigation
Manage good and bad bots in real-time with speed and accuracy by harnessing the data from the millions of Internet properties on Cloudflare.
Simple bots
More advanced bots
Sophisticated bots and basic bot analytics
All bots, anomaly detection, custom CAPTCHAs & threat response, advanced bot analytics, and more

Cloudflare Rules
Cloudflare Rules
Cloudflare Rules allows you to make adjustments to requests and responses, configure Cloudflare settings, and trigger specific actions for matching requests. Examples of rule use cases include setting cache expirations, modifying security levels for sections of your site, and forwarding URLs.
Up to 65 rules
Up to 155 rules
Up to 310 rules
Up to 760 rules

Layer-3 Network DDoS protection with Magic Transit*
Custom Pricing

Network Prioritization

Support Options
Community forums and documentation
Tickets + Community Forums
Tickets + Chat + Community Forums
24x7x365 Tickets + Chat + Phone + Community Forums

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