pi-hole.net

Pi-hole

Who runs Pi-hole, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DNS ad blocking alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: AdGuard

Measured from Pi-hole’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Pi-hole

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Wikidata: ad- and tracker-blocking application

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Pi-hole 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; 9 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.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Pi-hole

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Pi-hole match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Pi-hole 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 and search numbers · 7 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 34 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://wp-cdn.pi-hole.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Payments: Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
Web servers: LiteSpeed header server: LiteSpeed
Languages & backends: PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.3.36
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nROR2tF6iK-DbzAlLpgfV0L4BCGBK4c0AZ9r5jNyYSU

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.