DNS filtering · RankedDNSFilter
DNSFilter is a DNS filtering and DNS security product · dnsfilter.com ↗
Leads at mid-market. Ranked 2 of 66 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is Cloudflare Gateway at 21%.
Ranked first. Next is Cloudflare Gateway at 16%. 13 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cisco Umbrella is first at 52%.
Why models recommend it
“DNSFilter: Very popular for mid-market. High-performance threat detection using AI/ML, easy to deploy, fast global network, excellent pricing transparency.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Best for: Companies seeking pure, high-performance DNS layer protection with straightforward pricing and excellent MSP/partner channel support.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, I recommend starting with DNSFilter due to its purpose-built design for your size”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“DNSFilter if you want a more purpose-built filtering product with clearer SMB pricing and stronger DNS-filtering focus”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“The biggest warnings are around DNSFilter's agent reliability”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“reviews mention recurring complaints about support, pricing, misconfigurations, and occasional outages or false positives”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“I'd verify current packaging/features before choosing it.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DNSFilter, over the 172 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 147 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 125 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 1 | View → | |
| 59 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 12 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of DNSFilter →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DNSFilter's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- organizations worldwide
- Price stated
- Core $1.00 /license annually; $1.15 /license monthly; $240/year minimum /license; $23/month minimum. Plus $2.25 /license annually; $2.50 /license monthly; $750/year minimum /license; $62.50/month minimum. MSP pricing starts at $150/month. SecureTransit $2.00/license/mo. Data Export $0.25/license/mo.
- Starting price
- $1.00 /license annually
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free Trial
- Integrations
- 45
- Customers named
- Mainstay Technologies, FixFinder, Oetker Collection: Masterpiece Hotels, Industrial Refrigeration Pros, Triangle Communications
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 162 of the 172 answers that named DNSFilter and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
400 of the 549 domain citations in answers naming DNSFilter came from a third party's page. Thirty-five were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 340 | 9 | 2026-10-01 | DNS filtering, SIEM | |
| News or press | 101 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 65 | 0 | 2021-12-20 | DNS filtering, DLP | |
| Podcast or video | 50 | 0 | 2026-03-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 39 | 0 | 2026-02-26 | ||
| Case study | 21 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 20 | 0 | 2026-04-21 | SASE | |
| Conference or event | 7 | 1 | 2026-08-07 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2025-06-26 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Vpn replacement guide blog
- 2026-09-17Security mcp servers what they are and what a dns one changes blog
- 2026-09-09Securetransit for msps digital privacy without another tool to manage blog
- 2026-09-02Dns filtering compliance frameworks blog
- 2026-08-26Introducing securetransit blog
- 2026-08-11Dnsfilter black hat expansion path blog
Events in person
- September 27, 2026MSP Summit Dinner at The PalmThe Palm · took part
As the event pages on dnsfilter.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page dnsfilter.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.