Self-hosted DNS software

DNS servers and management tools with advertisement blocking functionality, primarily aimed at home or small networks.

6 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to Pi-hole

Pi-hole

Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring.

Actively maintained ★ 61.7k EUPL-1.2 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

AdGuard Home

User-friendly ads & trackers blocking DNS server.

Actively maintained ★ 38.1k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Technitium DNS Server

Authoritative/recursive DNS server with ad blocking functionality.

Actively maintained ★ 10.3k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

blocky

Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features (alternative to Pi-hole).

Actively maintained ★ 7.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Numa

Ad-blocking DNS resolver with DNSSEC-validating recursive resolution, DoH/DoT/Oblivious DoH, ephemeral overrides, and local service domains, in a single Rust binary (alternative to Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS).

Actively maintained ★ 2k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Maza ad blocking

Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

Actively maintained ★ 1.9k Apache-2.0 ~$3.5/mo