#25 in Storage & CDNUpdated 2026-08

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS

by Dyn · Cloud DNS for public and private zones with traffic steering

36.1 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

OCI DNS is a cloud native DNS service that answers both internet-facing and internal requests. Zones can be created as primary (authoritative) or secondary, with optional record import, and requests can be distributed across regions by load, destination health, source location, ASN or IP prefix. It also supports private views for VCNs and on-premises networks, DNS metrics and HTTP/HTTPS redirects.

Best for: Teams running workloads on Oracle Cloud that need public and private DNS with traffic steering.
Pricing: No price is shown for the DNS service in the captured pages; the site states only that OCI DNS requires a paid OCI account, either pay-as-you-go or a Universal Credits contract, and that an Oracle Cloud Free Tier account is available for trying OCI.
Runs on: Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Serves both internet-facing and internal OCI requests
Primary and secondary zones, with optional record import
Steering by load, failover, geolocation, ASN and IP prefix
Private views give name resolution across VCNs and on-premises

Trade-offs

Requires a paid OCI account: pay-as-you-go or Universal Credits contract
Captured price list shows no rate for the DNS service itself
Private DNS scenarios are framed around OCI VCNs and connected networks
Dynamic DNS hostnames are a separate DynDNS product with its own portal

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 80 out of 100
API quality: 0 out of 100
Documentation: 30 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 45 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 20 out of 100
Changelog: 40 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

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Openness: 25 out of 100

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