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In this article:

  • Prices for the Russia region
  • Public DNS requests
  • DNS zones

Cloud DNS pricing policy

Written by
Yandex Cloud
Updated at October 24, 2025
  • Prices for the Russia region
    • Public DNS requests
    • DNS zones

To estimate your service costs, see the pricing in this section.

The prices for service products are also available in the price list.

Note

Currency of Service rates (prices) depends on the company you made a contract with:

  • Prices in US dollars are applicable to customers of Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) or Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai).
  • Prices in Russian roubles are applicable to customers of Yandex.Cloud LLC.

All prices below do not include VAT.

Prices for the Russia regionPrices for the Russia region

Note

Yandex Cloud resources are priced differently in different regions. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.

Your payment currency is determined by your contracting legal entity. For more information on creating an account, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.

Public DNS requestsPublic DNS requests

Resource category Price per 1,000,000 requests
per month, without VAT
Public DNS requests, authoritative $0.288000
Public DNS requests, recursive, 1,000,000 or less per month Free
Public DNS requests, recursive, over 1,000,000 per month $0.288000

You will be billed for:

  • Authoritative requests: Any DNS requests to user public zones from the internet or Yandex Cloud.

  • Recursive requests: DNS requests for external domain names on the internet from Yandex Cloud VMs.

    Tip

    We recommend using caching resolvers, such as systemd-resolved, dnsmasq, or unbound. These reduce the number of external domain name requests, and thereby, your costs.

You do not pay for:

  • Requests from VMs to private and service zones.

Starting December 6, 2021, you get the following free of charge:

  • The first 1,000,000 recursive requests from VMs each month.

    Once you have used up this free amount, you will be charged according to your service plan.

    Any unused free service balance is reset at the end of each calendar month.

  • Requests 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 requests is based on usage.

For example, the cost of 50,000 authoritative requests to your public DNS zone per month will be:

(50,000 / 1,000,000) × $0.288000 = 0.05 × $0.288000 = $0.014400

Total: $0.014400

Where:

  • (50,000 / 1,000,000): Number of millions of executed queries.
  • $0.288000: 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) × $0.288000 = 0.2 × $0.288000 = $0.057600

Total: $0.057600

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.
  • $0.288000: Price per 1 million recursive queries per month.

DNS zonesDNS zones

You are charged for public or private DNS zones you create.

Service zones are provided free of charge.

You are charged per second of usage, based on consumption.

For example, the cost of managing two DNS zones for 360 hours will be the same as the cost of managing one DNS zone for 720 hours.

Resource category Price per user-created DNS zone,
per month, without VAT
DNS zone $0.324000

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