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Open source alternatives to Pi-hole Cloud

We track 5 open-source Pi-hole Cloud alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 4 ship a Docker image. AdGuard Home leads on health at 98/100 with 76 commits in the last 90 days; across all 5 projects you are choosing between Apache-2.0, EUPL-1.2, GPL-3.0.

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116k
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Showing 5 of 5 tools

All 5 Pi-hole Cloud alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    AdGuard Home

    98 GOOD

    User-friendly ads & trackers blocking DNS server.

    ★ 37k · ⟳ 3 days ago · v0.107.79 · GPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • blocky

    95 GOOD

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

    ★ 6.9k · ⟳ today · v0.35.0 · Apache-2.0

    DockerGo
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Pi-hole

    89 GOOD

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

    ★ 61k · ⟳ 2 days ago · v6.4.3 · EUPL-1.2

    DockerShellPHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Pi-hole Cloud alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Pi-hole Cloud?

AdGuard Home scores highest at 98/100, with 76 commits in the last 90 days, 37k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.107.79) published 27 days ago. blocky has the most raw commit activity at 93 commits in 90 days.

Which Pi-hole Cloud alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 5 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): blocky (Apache-2.0), Maza ad blocking (Apache-2.0). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Pi-hole Cloud alternatives run in Docker?

4 of 5 publish a Docker image or Compose file: AdGuard Home, Technitium DNS Server, blocky, Pi-hole. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.