Google Cloud DNS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 7 of 78 | 10% | 39 | accepted challenger | |
| DDI and IP address management | Network and edge | 0% | 49 of 115 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by BlueCat Micetro at 15% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Google Cloud DNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cloudflare, Route 53, and Google Cloud DNS dominate the cloud‑native and developer‑friendly space” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · first choice
“if you're heavily invested in AWS or Google Cloud, Route 53 or Google Cloud DNS respectively would integrate better” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Google Cloud DNS fits best if you're already running on Google Cloud and want governed, automation-friendly administration” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
“top recommendations like Cloudflare, AWS Route 53, and Google Cloud DNS consistently rank high for uptime” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · negative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“AWS Route 53, Azure DNS, and Google Cloud DNS all locking you into their platform with no standard mechanism to replicate zones to external nameservers” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative
“Free tiers available, but query-based billing kicks in quickly; less performant than Cloudflare.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · budget prompt · soft negative
“they can become expensive depending on your traffic volume and number of hosted zones” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · budget prompt · soft negative
“relying on *just one* of them without a backup can be a point of vulnerability” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud DNS, over the 113 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud DNS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 103 of the 113 answers that named Google Cloud DNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
347 of the 347 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud DNS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Google Cloud DNS stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“google cloud dns”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Google Cloud's site (google.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 113 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 103 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Follow Google Cloud DNS
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Google Cloud is the company behind Google Cloud DNS.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Google Cloud
- Google 2-Step Verification, Google Alerts, Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Google Analytics, Google Antigravity, Google Artifact Registry, Google AutoML, Google BigQuery ML and 84 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- MITGeorgia State UniversityStrayer UniversityManhattan CollegeNortheastern UniversitySan José State University
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Google Cloud DNS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: edu.google.com/google-cloud. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Google Cloud DNS's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Google Cloud DNS, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Cloud DNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Google Cloud DNS is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Google Cloud DNS, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.