Cloud DNS pricing policy

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Updated at October 24, 2025

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 Delphi Cloud Pvt. Ltd.
  • Prices in Indian roubles are applicable to customers of Delphi Cloud Pvt. Ltd..

All prices below do not include VAT.

Prices for the India region

Note

Delphi 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 Delphi Cloud.

Public 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 Delphi Cloud.

  • Recursive requests: DNS requests for external domain names on the internet from Delphi 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:

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 Delphi Cloud services (e.g., api.cloud.delphicloud.ai) and Delphi services (e.g., mail.delphicloud.ai), 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 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