AdGuard Home vs Pi-hole
Filtered DNS for every device, with a dashboard and apps.
The pick: AdGuard Home
AdGuard Home for the interface and per-device rules. Pi-hole for the blocklists and the guides.
The facts
| Fact | AdGuard Home | Pi-hole |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-3.0 | EUPL-1.2 |
| Effort | a container | a container |
| Activity | active | active |
| Repository | github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome | github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole |
Pick AdGuard Home if
Pick AdGuard Home when you want DNS-over-HTTPS built in and settings you can find.
Pick Pi-hole if
Pick Pi-hole when you want the largest set of lists and a decade of forum answers.
What each one costs you
- AdGuard HomeOne container, a web UI and per-device settings. You run it on one network, not everywhere.
- Pi-holeThe one everyone knows, with the largest set of blocklists and guides. DNS only; filtering is blunt.
The full entry for both lives under Instead of NextDNS, judged swap it.