Cloud DNS pricing policy
To estimate your service costs, see the pricing in this section.
Prices for service products are also available in the Price list.
Prices for the Russia region
Warning
Starting May 1, 2025, the prices for Yandex Cloud DNS resources in the Russia region will increase. For new prices, see:
Note
Prices for Yandex Cloud resources vary based on the region. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.
The currency you can use to pay for the resources depends on which legal entity you entered into agreement with. For more information on creating an account, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.
Public DNS queries
| Resource category | Price per 1 million requests per month, including VAT |
|---|---|
| Public DNS requests: authoritative requests | ₽34.56 |
| Public DNS requests: recursive requests for external names, 1 million or less per month | Free |
| Public DNS requests: recursive requests for external names, over 1 million per month | ₽34.56 |
| Resource category | Price per 1 million requests per month, including VAT |
|---|---|
| Public DNS requests: authoritative requests | ₸172.80 |
| Public DNS requests: recursive requests for external names, 1 million or less per month | Free |
| Public DNS requests: recursive requests for external names, over 1 million per month | ₸172.80 |
You will be billed for:
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Authoritative queries: Any requests for DNS records in a user's public zones from the internet or Yandex Cloud.
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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, orunbound. They can help you reduce the number of queries for external domain names, reducing costs.
You do not pay for:
Starting December 6, 2021, the following is provided free of charge:
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The first one million (1,000,000) recursive queries from VMs each month.
Once you have used up this free amount, you will be charged according to your service plan.
The unused balance of free services is reset at the end of the month.
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Queries for domain names of Yandex Cloud services (e.g.,
api.cloud.yandex.net) and Yandex services (e.g.,mail.yandex.com), both from VMs and the internet.
The cost of public DNS queries is based on usage.
For example, the cost of 50 thousand authoritative queries to your public DNS zone per month will be:
(50,000 / 1,000,000) × ₽34.56 = 0.05 × ₽34.56 = ₽1.728
Total: ₽1.728
Where:
- (50,000 / 1,000,000): Number of millions of executed queries.
- ₽34.56: Price per 1 million queries per month.
For example, the cost of 1.2 million recursive queries for external names executed from December 6 to December 31 from your VMs per month will be:
(1.2 − 1.0) × ₽34.56 = 0.2 × ₽34.56 = ₽6.912
Total: ₽6.912
Where:
- (1.2 − 1.0): Number of millions of executed queries. You are not billed for the first million of recursive queries starting December 6, 2021.
- ₽34.56: Price per 1 million recursive queries per month.
(50,000 / 1,000,000) × ₸172.80 = 0.05 × ₸172.80 = ₸8.64
Total: ₸8.64
Where:
- (50,000 / 1,000,000): Number of millions of executed queries.
- ₸172.80: Price per 1 million queries per month.
For example, the cost of 1.2 million recursive queries for external names executed from December 6 to December 31 from your VMs per month will be:
(1.2 − 1.0) × ₸172.80 = 0.2 × ₸172.80 = ₸34.56
Total: ₸34.56
Where:
- (1.2 − 1.0): Number of millions of executed queries. You are not billed for the first million of recursive queries starting December 6, 2021.
- ₸172.80: Price per 1 million recursive queries per month.
DNS zones
You are charged for user-created public or internal DNS zones.
Service zones are provided free of charge.
You are charged per second of usage. 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.
For 1 custom DNS zone per month
| Resource category | Cost per month, including VAT |
|---|---|
| DNS zone | ₽38.88 * |
* For reference only. Assuming a 720-hour (30-day) month. The value is rounded. The cost per hour is used in Yandex Cloud Billing calculations.
| Resource category | Cost per month, including VAT |
|---|---|
| DNS zone | ₸194.40 * |
* For reference only. Assuming a 720-hour (30-day) month. The value is rounded. The cost per hour is used in Yandex Cloud Billing calculations.
For 1 custom DNS zone per hour
| Resource category | Cost per hour, including VAT |
|---|---|
| DNS zone | ₽0.0540 |
| Resource category | Cost per hour, including VAT |
|---|---|
| DNS zone | ₸0.27 |