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DNS filtering · Named, not ranked

AdGuard Home

–Too few to rank
2/14Models named it
0First choices
2Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inDNS filtering #15 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. AdGuard Home has 3.

Why models recommend it

“running Pi-hole or AdGuard Home on a local device ... gives you complete visibility over what gets filtered”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Self-hosted (e.g., Pi-hole + Unbound or AdGuard Home): Full control, no third-party logging.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“In-house IT + single physical office | AdGuard Home / Pi-hole | $0 recurring cost”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as AdGuard Home, over the 5 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named AdGuard Home came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 2 of the 5 answers that named AdGuard Home and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

av-comparatives.org1
cloudflare.com1
controld.com1
developers.cloudflare.com1
dope.security1
enisa.europa.eu1
github.com1
help.nextdns.io1
infoworld.com1
m3aawg.org1

No domain is on file for AdGuard Home, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on AdGuard Home across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2001001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000