adguard-dns.io
AdGuard DNS
Who runs AdGuard DNS, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DNS filtering service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NextDNS
Measured from AdGuard DNS’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit AdGuard DNS01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs AdGuard DNS
AdGuard DNS adguard-dns.io
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What AdGuard DNS tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to AdGuard DNS
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AdGuard DNS, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close - 02
CleanBrowsing | DNS Content Filtering Service
Affordable DNS filtering that blocks malware, adult content, and unwanted sites. Protect schools, families, and businesses at the network level.
Very close - 03
Control D | DNS Filtering for Every OS
Encrypted DNS filtering trusted by 100M+ users. Blocks malware and trackers on every OS. Flat fee per endpoint. Start free.
Very close - 04
Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
Very close - 05
company
Very close - 06
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ad- and tracker-blocking application
Very close - 07
AdGuard Ad Blocker — block ads, popups, and trackers
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
Very close - 08
Best-Rated DNS Filtering Service | DNS Security | DNSFilter
The DNS filtering service trusted by 57,000+ organizations. DNSFilter's DNS security software blocks malware, phishing, and unwanted sites in minutes.
Very close - 09
Home
Boost subscriber performance by up to 25% for less than 1% of your overall 5G network investment.
Very close - 10
Dynamic DNS, VPS Hosting and More
Very close - 11
DNSExit | Dynamic DNS, Remote Access, SMTP Relay, DNS Failover and Hosting
DNSExit provides Dynamic DNS, Remote Access, SMTP relay, DNS failover, business email hosting, backup MX, SSL, domains, and web hosting for businesses, IT teams, and self-hosted users.
Very close - 12 traefik.me No trackers
traefik.me
Very close - 13
Free dynamic DNS service | Dynu Systems, Inc.
Dynu Systems, Inc. provides free dynamic DNS service as well as other services such as domain registration, email and SSL services.
Very close - 14
No-IP | Smarter DNS Starts Here
No-IP is a Free Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS provider with 100% uptime. Get free DDNS, plus domain registration and SSL certificates, for home and business
Very close - 15
Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names | ClouDNS
ClouDNS provides Free DNS, Cloud DNS, Managed DNS, GeoDNS and DDoS Protected DNS hosting with included web redirects, mail forwards and Round-Robin load balancing. Instant updates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
Very close - 16
MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox
Very close - 17
Strengthening trust and safety across the internet | Spamhaus
Strengthening trust and safety online through IP and domain reputation intelligence, expertise, education, and community collaboration.
Very close - 18
Duck DNS
Duck DNS free dynamic DNS hosted on Amazon VPC
Very close - 19
YDNS
Very close - 20
DNSPod-免费智能DNS解析服务商-电信_网通_教育网,智能DNS
DNSPod是国内提供智能DNS产品的网站，致力于为各类网站提供高质量的电信、网通、教育网双线或者三线智能DNS免费解析。目前DNSPod已经是国内最大的免费DNS解析产品提供商
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles AdGuard DNS’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones AdGuard DNS uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AdGuard DNS adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AdGuard DNS’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Vue.js page source: data-server-rendered="true"
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.elasticemail.com include:amazonses.com include:ma…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779dfdef6d1678-HAM
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.elasticemail.com include:amazonses.com include:ma…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS todd.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=mVuHr4xDNmsnNzOur4t7m_HEX_-Tw6eUfwsc17GCCnw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- jQuery · not on adguard-dns.io 9/20
- Google Analytics · not on adguard-dns.io 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on adguard-dns.io 7/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- nginx · not on adguard-dns.io 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on adguard-dns.io 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on adguard-dns.io 4/20
- Apple Business · not on adguard-dns.io 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on adguard-dns.io 3/20
- cdnjs · not on adguard-dns.io 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on adguard-dns.io 3/20
- Slack · not on adguard-dns.io 3/20