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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
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Closest alternative
DNSFilter

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than CleanBrowsingNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

19 of the 60 sites closest to CleanBrowsing match.

  1. 01
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare NextDNS with CleanBrowsing →
  2. 02
    Control D controld.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Control D with CleanBrowsing →
  3. 03
    AdGuard DNS adguard-dns.io English No trackers

    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.

    Compare AdGuard DNS with CleanBrowsing →
  4. 04
    AdGuard adguard.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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

    Compare AdGuard with CleanBrowsing →
  5. 05
    Pi-hole pi-hole.net English No trackers

    Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

    ad- and tracker-blocking application

    Compare Pi-hole with CleanBrowsing →
  6. 06
    SpamCop spamcop.net No trackers

    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.

    Compare SpamCop with CleanBrowsing →
  7. 07
    Rspamd rspamd.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Rspamd with CleanBrowsing →
  8. 08
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with CleanBrowsing →
  9. 09
    YDNS ydns.io English No trackers

    YDNS

    Compare YDNS with CleanBrowsing →
  10. 10
    SURBL surbl.org No trackers

    SURBL

    surbl desc

    Compare SURBL with CleanBrowsing →
  11. 11
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

    Compare Google with CleanBrowsing →
  12. 12
    traefik.me No trackers

    traefik.me

    Compare traefik.me with CleanBrowsing →
  13. 13
    TotalAV totalav.com English No trackers

    Official Site | TotalAV Award-Winning Antivirus Provider

    TotalAV's Award-Winning antivirus instantly blocks harmful malware threats and viruses in real-time, keeping your personal data and identity safe.

    Compare TotalAV with CleanBrowsing →
  14. 14
    oopspam.com English No trackers

    oopspam: Automate your Spam and Fraud Detection

    Prevent spam and fraud before they impact your business. High accuracy. Zero data compromise.

    Compare oopspam.com with CleanBrowsing →
  15. 15
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with CleanBrowsing →
  16. 16
    Mojeek mojeek.com English No trackers

    Mojeek

    Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

    Compare Mojeek with CleanBrowsing →
  17. 17
    is-a.dev English No trackers

    is-a.dev - Free subdomains for developers

    A service to allow developers to get free `.is-a.dev` subdomains

    Compare is-a.dev with CleanBrowsing →
  18. 18
    Mullvad mullvad.net English No trackers

    Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people

    Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.

    Compare Mullvad with CleanBrowsing →
  19. 19
    17ce.com Chinese No trackers

    17ce.com - 网站测速_网站速度测试_网速测试_在线ping检测_DNS查询_路由追踪_网络监控_网络延迟检测

    17ce.com通过全球分布式网络探测节点为用户提供实时网站速度测试、网络质量监控、在线Ping检测、路由追踪、DNS查询、CDN测速、DNS污染查询等服务来快速、精准的定位网站、IP、API等应用在全球网络运行情况,并及时对网络质量进行诊断和调整。

    Compare 17ce.com with CleanBrowsing →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
33 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.

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