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.
19 of the 60 sites closest to CleanBrowsing match.
- 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
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 - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ad- and tracker-blocking application
Very close - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
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.
Very close - 09
YDNS
Very close - 10 Very close
- 11
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 12 traefik.me No trackers
traefik.me
Close - 13
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.
Very close - 14
oopspam: Automate your Spam and Fraud Detection
Prevent spam and fraud before they impact your business. High accuracy. Zero data compromise.
Close - 15
Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Very close - 16
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Close - 17
is-a.dev - Free subdomains for developers
A service to allow developers to get free `.is-a.dev` subdomains
Close - 18
Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people
Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.
Close - 19
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。
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 69 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