Bunny.net makes Bunny DNS free, scrapping query fees

Bunny.net has removed DNS query fees entirely: Bunny DNS no longer charges for queries and now includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account, with no query limits, no per-request billing and no features held back for enterprise plans.

From internal engine to 200 billion queries a month

The company describes Bunny DNS as the routing engine behind its CDN: it analyses every query and sends traffic to the optimal destination. It was built first as internal infrastructure and turned into a product four years ago, adding latency data, health checks and JavaScript-based logic so records can respond dynamically instead of returning static values.

According to bunny.net, Bunny DNS now powers more than 300,000 domains and handles nearly 200 billion queries every month. The wider network spans 119 locations and serves over 1.5 million websites, which the company cites as the reason a routing layer rather than raw hardware explains its performance.

Why the query fee had to go

The company argues that infrastructure costs should not be unpredictable: a spike of a million queries should not turn into a surprising invoice, and the system standing between users and services should not be a premium add-on. Accounts remain subject to bunny.net's standard $1 per month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs usage-based charges, including smart records and health monitoring.

IPv6, DNSSEC and modern record types

Alongside the pricing change, bunny.net says it has modernised the service. Nameserver records resolve over both IPv4 and IPv6 with nothing to configure, and DNSSEC has been implemented with NSEC Black Lies, which provides validation and tamper protection without making it easy to walk an entire domain structure. Support has also been added for HTTPS and SVCB records, which hint at how clients should connect; TLSA records for DANE certificate validation; and CDS and CDNSKEY records to automate DNSSEC key management.

DNS as the entry point

Migration is easier as well: automatic zone scanning checks the most common record names and types and reconstructs a zone so users only make small adjustments, and a BIND file can be uploaded instead. From there, 1-Click Acceleration enables the CDN directly from DNS records by creating a pull zone behind the scenes, while 1-Click Security turns on Bunny Shield to filter traffic at the edge and absorb DDoS attacks before they reach the origin server.

Bunny.net frames the change as a bet on integration rather than price alone: DNS, CDN and Shield are presented as one system, so a domain can be added and left as plain DNS or layered with acceleration and security as needed.