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Comparison

AWS Route 53 vs Cloudflare DNS

No leader: the top candidate AWS Route 53 has only 0.29 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

AWS Route 53 full profile →Cloudflare DNS full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
AWS Route 5367
Cloudflare DNS52
Score
Vioscale score
AWS Route 5367 / 100low · 29%
Cloudflare DNS52 / 100medium · 62%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS Route 53✗
Cloudflare DNS✓
Model
AWS Route 53commercial
Cloudflare DNSfreemium
Price level
AWS Route 53unknown
Cloudflare DNSmid
Starting price
AWS Route 53–
Cloudflare DNS$20
Transparent
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓
Integrations
Count
AWS Route 5310
Cloudflare DNS2
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS–
Fedramp
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS–
Gdpr
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓
Hipaa
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS–
Iso27001
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS–
Pci
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓
Soc2
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS–
Reliability
Sla pct
AWS Route 53–
Cloudflare DNS100
Market
Availability

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

AWS Route 53

A managed DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses and intelligently directs user traffic across global infrastructure. Includes domain registration, health monitoring, and policy-based routing for optimizing application availability and performance.

Independently observed

Cloudflare DNS

A nameserver system that converts domain names to IP addresses using a global network infrastructure to deliver rapid, resilient query responses. Includes a fully-featured, unrestricted API for infrastructure-as-code automation.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

AWS Route 53

Usage-based30-day trial

From $0.50/hosted zone/month (first 25) or $0.10/additional; plus per-query charges ($0.40–$0.80 per million depending on region/query type); health checks $0.50–$1.00/month; domain registration annual pricing.

as of verify ↗

Cloudflare DNS

from $20/moHybridFree tier

Free tier available; paid plans from $20/month billed annually

  • FreeFree
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
  • Pro$20/month (annual) or $25/month (monthly)
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +6 more
  • Business$200/month (annual) or $250/month (monthly)
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +6 more
  • ContractContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓
CLI
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS Route 53✓
Cloudflare DNS✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

AWS Route 53

10 total
  • Elastic Load Balancers
  • CloudFront
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • API Gateway
  • VPC Endpoints
  • S3 (website endpoints)
  • AppRunner
  • AppSync
  • OpenSearch
  • Global Accelerator
Independently observed

Cloudflare DNS

2 total
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.