IBM NS1 Connect

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM NS1 Connect	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	IBM NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS and traffic steering designed to improve application performance and network resilience.	$99 per month

Pricing

IBM NS1 Connect

Editions & Modules

IBM NS1 Connect Essentials: USD 99*
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM NS1 Connect
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

Additional Details

Options include IBM NS1 CONNECT FREE DEVELOPER ACCOUNT The IBM® NS1 Connect® free developer account showcases IBM's authoritative DNS capabilities, allowing users to start using it in minutes. Although traffic scale is limited, the full API is available for unlimited usage. It can be used in production as a primary or secondary solution. IBM NS1 CONNECT ESSENTIALS Scaled for growing businesses, the Essentials plan offers features to ensure fast, reliable connections to end-users. Available for purchase on IBM.com or AWS. IBM NS1 CONNECT PREMIUM NS1 Connect Premium is for businesses needing scalable authoritative DNS. Pricing is based on query volume and DNS records. Additional services are also priced through query volume. Enterprise plans offer customizable support and professional services. *(Calculated prices are estimates provided for planning purposes only taking into account potential IBM discounts, and are not a formal offer from IBM or an IBM Business Partner. The estimation may reflect the total discounted price. Certain factors such as configuration, add-ons, or additional requirements will affect final price. IBM Business Partners set and provide their own IBM NS1 Price Estimator pricing, and neither IBM nor IBM Business Partners are bound by the provided estimate.)

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Community Pulse
	IBM NS1 Connect
Considered Both Products	IBM NS1 Connect Verified User Partner Chose IBM NS1 Connect Cloudflare offers a very intuitive interface and strong security features, but its DNS traffic management is more opinionated and provides less granular control for complex routing use cases. Akamai is powerful and enterprise‑grade, but it felt heavier and more complex than … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM NS1 Connect IBM NS1 Connect and Amazon Route 53 are both DNS (Domain Name System) services, but differ in their focus and strengths. IBM NS1 Connect is a cloud DNS service designed for complex traffic routing, application performance, and reliability, while Route 53 is a more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM NS1 Connect Good DNS monitoring system with alerts on DNS downtime. It has a decent UI with good graphs and figures explaining traffic data throughout the day/week/month. The allotting of nodes according to the traffic for a certain IP or DNS. The costing, however could be better than the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose IBM NS1 Connect Easier to use and quicker to update dns records. Incentivized Helpful? Vivek Singh Sr Executive QA Chose IBM NS1 Connect No, we didn't use anything other than IBM NS1. Incentivized Helpful? Alok Singh ☁️ Technical Consultant Chose IBM NS1 Connect It is easy to use and provides more security and trust. Incentivized Helpful? Lokesh Pandey Servicenow Consultant Chose IBM NS1 Connect It's definitely because of automation capabilities and flexibility that it offers. It also offers much more control over how traffic is routed when compared with Google Cloud DNS. The advance features are once again missing in Google Cloud DNS when compared with IBM NS1 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Vice-President Chose IBM NS1 Connect NS1 connect has one of the best response times for public DNS and high uptime. We see it beating some of the other vendors hands down. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose IBM NS1 Connect Support for Terraform integration is great with NS1. NS1 has Easy to use UX interface. Logically laid out and solid API interface with through documentation Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	IBM NS1 Connect
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Google Cloud DNS Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM NS1 Connect
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (7 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM NS1 Connect
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM It is a tool used for making and managing IP to DNS connections, it is well suited if you want a decent software to maintain DNS for your devops team. It is a bit expensive and UI could be a little tricky to understand, also third party software integrations could be a little tricky as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	IBM IBM NS1 Connect provides a comprehensive solution for managing and optimizing traffic steering. It provides solutions like Dedicated DNS, which offers a separate resolution network for authoritative DNS, ensuring maximum uptime even in the face of outages. It utilizes real-time metrics and automated DNS routing decisions to optimize traffic distribution and ensure resilience. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	IBM User Experience - Please make it more easy to use for Admins Also add some more details in the reference documents Try if they can offer a monitoring tool Incentivized Alok Singh ☁️ Technical Consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	IBM The product is very easy to use even for a junior admin new to the job. It has an intuitive interface, logical layout and easy to generate reporting. We have been able to catch configuration errors, DDOS attacks and logging of unusual behavior. We also love how it can be used in a redundant fashion to eliminate downtime Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	IBM The interface can be better. As of now, it is a bit difficult to manage multiple records at the same time or to test the rules effectively. The data reporting is also not as great as we expect with tools of today’s maturity. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Cloudflare offers a very intuitive interface and strong security features, but its DNS traffic management is more opinionated and provides less granular control for complex routing use cases. Akamai is powerful and enterprise‑grade, but it felt heavier and more complex than what we needed for DNS‑focused traffic steering. We ultimately selected IBM NS1 Connect because it struck the right balance between flexibility, intelligence, and control. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	IBM Enhanced end-user experience as a result of better performance & uptime Easy management - resulting in cutting down in operations cost Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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