# AdGuard Home: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/adguard-home

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [DNS filtering](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/dns-filtering/index.md) | 0% | 15 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

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

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AdGuard Home, from 2 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- av-comparatives.org: 1
- cloudflare.com: 1
- controld.com: 1
- developers.cloudflare.com: 1
- dope.security: 1
- enisa.europa.eu: 1
- github.com: 1
- help.nextdns.io: 1
- infoworld.com: 1
- m3aawg.org: 1

### Pages cited

- https://av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/avc_dns_eval_2025.pdf: 1
- https://cloudflare.com/plans/free: 1
- https://controld.com/blog/nextdns-pricing: 1
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver: 1
- https://dope.security/post/dns-based-filtering-explained-2026: 1
- https://enisa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/ENISA%20Report%20-%20Security%20and%20Privacy%20for%20public%20DNS%20Resolvers.pdf: 1
- https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/main/docs/dns.md: 1
- https://help.nextdns.io/t/83yzp68/nextdns-for-companies: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.