Internet infrastructure company bunny.net has eliminated usage-based query fees from Bunny DNS, repositioning the service as a free entry point to its wider content-delivery and security platform. Customers can host as many as 500 domains per account without DNS query charges or query limits, while the company’s standard minimum account spend of $1 per month still applies.
Bunny says its DNS network already serves more than 300,000 domains and processes nearly 200 billion queries each month. The platform grew from the routing system behind Bunny CDN, which uses network measurements and health information to direct requests toward an appropriate destination. The company reports operating 119 locations and serving more than 1.5 million websites across its broader network. These scale figures are company disclosures rather than independently audited numbers in the supplied evidence.
The pricing change includes features that are often separated into higher service tiers. Smart records can use latency measurements and health checks, while JavaScript-based logic can influence where a request is sent. Health monitoring is included without an enterprise plan. The new policy removes uncertainty from traffic spikes, but customers using other bunny.net products can still incur charges for those services.
To reduce migration work, Bunny DNS now includes automatic zone scanning that checks common domain record names and types and attempts to reconstruct an existing zone. Users can alternatively upload a BIND zone file. Once records are active, a “1-Click Acceleration” option can create a CDN pull zone, and a separate security control can enable Bunny Shield for edge filtering and distributed denial-of-service protection. Those integrations are optional products around the free DNS layer.
The service supports IPv4 and IPv6 resolution for its nameservers without a customer migration. Its DNSSEC implementation uses NSEC Black Lies, an approach intended to provide authenticated denial of existence without making full zone enumeration straightforward. Bunny also lists support for HTTPS and SVCB records, TLSA for DANE deployments, and CDS and CDNSKEY records for automating parts of DNSSEC key management.
Removing metered query billing can be especially meaningful for sites with volatile traffic, where DNS demand may rise unexpectedly. It also makes DNS a channel through which Bunny can introduce customers to paid CDN and security tools. The announcement does not provide service-level comparisons, independent latency tests or future guarantees about pricing. Its concrete commitment is narrower: no DNS query fee, no query cap, hosting for up to 500 domains, and continued application of the account-wide $1 minimum spend. Prospective users must still evaluate availability, support and migration risk, because DNS is a critical dependency and a zero query price does not by itself establish operational suitability.
