2 categories · RankedCleanBrowsing
CleanBrowsing is a DNS filtering service that blocks categories such as adult content and malware · cleanbrowsing.org ↗
Why models recommend it
“Choose CleanBrowsing for: Strong parental control features, multiple filter profiles”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Cleanbrowsing is the gold standard for "set it and forget it" filtering”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Need easy family/school filters with minimal setup? CleanBrowsing.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for Enforced Content Filtering & Compliance”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Criticized for having "atrocious" customer support and is considered unreliable for business use”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“but these lack business-grade management, reporting, and support”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CleanBrowsing, over the 23 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 6 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 6 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of CleanBrowsing →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CleanBrowsing's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- families, schools, and businesses
- Price stated
- For Families $8.99 /month; Schools / Libraries $15 /month; Organizations $30 /month; For Families $75 /year; Schools / Libraries $150 /year; Organizations $300 /year; Custom starts at $10 /month / customer account
- Starting price
- 8.99
- Free plan or trial
- No, not on our self-service plans.
- Certifications
- CIPA
- Hosting
- Global Anycast network
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
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 21 of the 23 answers that named CleanBrowsing and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-four of the eighty domain citations in answers naming CleanBrowsing came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 82 | undated | DNS filtering, Email security | ||
| Blog | 46 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | DNS filtering | |
| Comparison | 15 | 0 | 2024-01-22 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | undated | DNS filtering | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | DNS filtering |
Most recent
- 2026-04-29Cipa compliance dns filtering k12 schools blog
- 2026-04-29Switching from cisco umbrella to cleanbrowsing blog
- 2025-10-22How dns filtering keeps your network safe blog
- 2025-05-28Dns logging for security and performance setup analysis and compliance blog
- 2025-04-16Choosing between anycast and unicast deployments blog
- 2025-01-29Internet safety guide for public libraries dns solutions blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cleanbrowsing.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.