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Also, Cloudflare has a huge amount of data centres by now, probably more than any other service. Even Google often underperforms them. Debatable if a few ms make a difference but it can for people living in remote areas where CF has a centre and the next 9.9.9.9/8.8.8.8 is 100ms away.

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It's important to note that the cloudflare dns does not send the EDNS Client Subnet header which can have a negative impact depending on where you live.

or a positive privacy impact depending on where you live :)

I'm on Google Fiber and 1.1.1.1 is often 1ms for me and googles DNS is ~8-12ms.

It's amazing how fast it is.

I guess Google doesn't deploy DNS at each edge. Otherwise it's hard to explain that you often get >5ms in major cities.

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