cleanbrowsing.org
CleanBrowsing
Who runs CleanBrowsing, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DNS content filtering alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DNSFilter
Measured from CleanBrowsing’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit CleanBrowsing01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs CleanBrowsing
CleanBrowsing cleanbrowsing.org
Affordable DNS filtering that blocks malware, adult content, and unwanted sites. Protect schools, families, and businesses at the network level.
Wikidata: DNS resolver
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What CleanBrowsing 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.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to CleanBrowsing
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to CleanBrowsing, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 - 02
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 - 03
company
Very close - 04
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 - 05
AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
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.
Very close - 06
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 - 07
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ad- and tracker-blocking application
Very close - 08
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 - 09
ContentKeeper - Ativion
The industry’s most secure and adaptable web filter, uniquely designed to not only protect students, but to enhance their use of diverse technologies in the classroom, supporting a seamless learning experience.
Very close - 10 securly.com Top 10K
American web filtering software provider
Very close - 11
Home
Boost subscriber performance by up to 25% for less than 1% of your overall 5G network investment.
Very close - 12
Sucuri - Complete Website Security, Protection & Monitoring
Website security made simple—Sucuri offers fast malware cleanup, reliable monitoring, and powerful protection for any CMS.
Very close - 13
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Very close - 14
SpamCop.net - Beware of cheap imitations
Beware of cheap imitations! SpamCop has been protecting the internet community since 1998. Automatically file spam reports with the network administrators who can stop unsolicited email at the source. Subscribe, and filter your email before it reaches your inbox.
Very close - 15
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 - 16
Linewize
We help schools advance beyond free provision to build safe and smart digital communities that protect and support students in their digital lives.
Very close - 17
Dynamic DNS, VPS Hosting and More
Very close - 18
DDoS-Guard | Reliable DDoS Protection & Mitigation
DDoS protection for companies and businesses of any level. ✔️ 4 Tbps scrubbing capacity. ✔️882 000+ projects under protection. ✔️ No hidden charges
Very close - 19
Rspamd — Email Security System
Rspamd is an email-security engine that stops phishing, business email compromise, malware, and spam for enterprises, ESPs, and hosting providers. Open-source detection core with premium support and SLAs.
Very close - 20
Website Security Monitoring & Malware Protection | SiteLock
Secure your website with our security monitoring and protection services. Protect data, prevent cyberattacks, and ensure peace of mind with SiteLock solutions.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles CleanBrowsing’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones CleanBrowsing 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 CleanBrowsing 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to CleanBrowsing’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 libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.2.0/css/all.min.css
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:ital,opsz,wght@0,9..40,100..1000;1,9..40…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.tagged-events.js
- Live chat & support
- LiveChat page source: cdn.livechatinc.com/
- CDN
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms33257520
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on cleanbrowsing.org 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on cleanbrowsing.org 9/20
- Zendesk · not on cleanbrowsing.org 9/20
- Apple Business · not on cleanbrowsing.org 7/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on cleanbrowsing.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cleanbrowsing.org 6/20
- HubSpot · not on cleanbrowsing.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on cleanbrowsing.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Vue.js · not on cleanbrowsing.org 5/20
- Font Awesome 4/20
- Salesforce · not on cleanbrowsing.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on cleanbrowsing.org 3/20