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Cloudflare DNS
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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 330 cities), and advanced security.
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.
Our global network offers optimal redundancy, with DNS resolution available at each of our data centers across over 330 cities.
Cloudflare offers built-in DDoS protection and one-click DNSSEC to ensure your applications are always safeguarded from DNS attacks.
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
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.
ANALYST RECOGNITION
Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2023 GigaOm Radar for DNS Security report.
Cloudflare named a 'Leader' in 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.
"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
Stop attacks on your DNS by relying on our network, which has 23x more capacity than the largest attacks ever recorded.
Easily configure email security DNS records to stop phishers from sending emails from your domain.
Get in-depth, real-time analytics for the health of your DNS traffic, accessible from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
PLANS
Free
forever
Add-ons billed monthly
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.
Pro
per month (paid annually)
When billed annually or $25/mo if billed monthly
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.
Business
When billed annually or $250/mo if billed monthly
For small businesses operating online.
Contract
Billed annually
For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.
New Externa packages available
Fast responsive times globally and near-instant updates.
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures websites and applications while ensuring the performance of legitimate traffic is not compromised.
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 Cloudflare-managed ruleset protecting against highest severity vulnerabilities.
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
Easy-to-detect bots
Sophisticated bots and basic bot analytics
All bots, anomaly detection, custom CAPTCHAs & threat response, advanced bot analytics, and more
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.
70 rules + 10,000 bulk redirects
225 rules + 25,000 bulk redirects
450 rules + 50,000 bulk redirects
2700 rules + 1,000,000 bulk redirects
Custom pricing
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Tickets + chat + community forums
Tickets 24x7x365 + chat + phone + community forums
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Cloudflare DNS is an enterprise-grade DNS service that offers fast response times, a high degree of resiliency, and advanced security features. It provides authoritative and secondary DNS services.
Cloudflare's authoritative DNS boasts an industry-leading average response time of 11 milliseconds.
Cloudflare's global network, with locations in over 330 cities, provides optimal redundancy.
Cloudflare DNS includes built-in DDoS protection and offers one-click DNSSEC to secure applications from DNS-based attacks.
Cloudflare DNS allows for easy configuration of email security DNS records to help prevent phishing attempts that originate from your domain.
Cloudflare DNS provides in-depth, real-time analytics concerning the health of your DNS traffic, accessible directly from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
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