Pi-hole
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Pi-hole has 7.
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
“Choose Pi-hole for: Complete control over your network, self-hosted solution, maximum customization”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Self-hosted (e.g., Pi-hole + Unbound or AdGuard Home): Full control, no third-party logging.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“consider running your own Pi-hole or similar self-hosted solution”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“a popular DNS filtering solution for home users, but not recommended for enterprise environments”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Pi-hole, over the 12 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 4 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → |
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
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 7 of the 12 answers that named Pi-hole and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-five of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Pi-hole came from a third party's page. Three 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 | 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |