DNS filtering · Named, not rankedScoutDNS
ScoutDNS is a DNS filtering product that combines real-time threat intelligence with customizable filtering and reporting · scoutdns.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. ScoutDNS has 3.
Why models recommend it
“The Best Overall Value: ScoutDNS ... Choose ScoutDNS if you want the best "set it and forget it" experience that maximizes your budget.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Slightly cheaper than DNSFilter while maintaining good functionality”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Some former DNSFilter users moved to ScoutDNS and reported it as "less than awesome."”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ScoutDNS, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ScoutDNS's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses, MSPs, schools, and nonprofits
- Price stated
- $11 per seat / year; $13 per seat / year; $15 per seat / year; $2.50 per seat / year; $300 annual minimum; $4.00 per seat / year; $480 annual minimum
- Starting price
- $2.50 per seat / year
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14 days trial
- Customers named
- IP Performance Ltd, 46 Solutions, Cranston IT, Tritek Business Solutions
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 10 of the 10 answers that named ScoutDNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-one of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming ScoutDNS came from a third party's page. Four 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 38 | 0 | 2026-05-19 | DNS filtering, SIEM | |
| Comparison | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-05-19New scoutdns windows client system level dns protection blog
- 2025-11-03New feature protective dns siem data export blog
- 2025-06-03New relay features dynamic wan and fail open blog
- 2025-04-16Now available easy entra id group policy integration in scoutdns blog
- 2024-10-15New feature easy active directory based policies blog
- 2024-10-02Scoutdns g2 fall24 awards for dns security blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page scoutdns.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 October 5, 2026.