3 categories · RankedOpenDNS
OpenDNS is a cloud-based DNS filtering service from Cisco that provides protection against phishing and optional filtering of web content by category · opendns.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Need company-wide policy enforcement? Cisco Umbrella or Cloudflare Gateway.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · first choice
“Quad9 and OpenDNS are the best DNS providers when blocking access to known phishing sites and malware sources”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for: Small businesses, families, and education.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid free/public options (e.g., Quad9, OpenDNS basic) for B2B”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Cisco's enterprise ties raise surveillance concerns. Logs queries ... Use only if you need its filtering dashboard and accept the trade-offs.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“often has minimums (e.g., $380+/year for small business)... though it's being phased toward Umbrella's higher-tier offerings”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Why to be cautious: After being acquired by Cisco, OpenDNS faced significant privacy criticism.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OpenDNS, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 7 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 4 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of OpenDNS →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on OpenDNS's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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 20 of the 29 answers that named OpenDNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-nine of the fifty-nine domain citations in answers naming OpenDNS 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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page opendns.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. Read September 29, 2026.