DDI and IP address management · Named, not rankedPowerDNS
PowerDNS is DNS software built around an authoritative DNS engine · powerdns.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. PowerDNS has 4.
Why models recommend it
“PowerDNS features an API that allows easy automation with NetBox”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid if your needs are very basic: Free/open-source options like ISC DHCP + PowerDNS exist but lack enterprise support and scalability.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PowerDNS, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PowerDNS's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- large-scale DNS service providers, including mobile and fixed-line broadband operators, and hosting and cloud service providers
- Price stated
- starting at $8,330
- Starting price
- 8330
- Free plan or trial
- free DNSdist booklet
- Customers named
- Allot, Quad9, BT, TELUS, PCN, PPF Telecom Group
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 6 of the 9 answers that named PowerDNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming PowerDNS 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 559 | 10 | 2026-10-01 | DNS filtering | |
| Case study | 9 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2021-10-08 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2017-07-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2015-06-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Powerdns recursor 5.3.11 and 5.4.7 released blog
- 2026-09-29End of life announcement debian 11 blog
- 2026-09-22Powerdns dnsdist 2.0.10 released blog
- 2026-09-15How much latency does your security add blog
- 2026-09-08Powerdns dnsdist 2.1.2 and 2.0.9 blog
- 2026-09-03Powerdns recursor 5.4.6 released blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page powerdns.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.