Pi-hole
Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 67 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v6.5 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Pi-hole Cloud.
At a glance
Pi-hole quick facts
- Health score
- 99/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 61,565
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v6.5, Oct 2026
- Licence
- EUPL-1.2
Top alternatives to Pi-hole
Full rankings: Pi-hole Cloud alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Pi-hole scores 99/100, #1 of 6 in DNS: 67 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v6.5, 13 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 61,565 stars add 19.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). It scores full marks on every term.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
67 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v6.5 released 13 days ago
- Stars 19.2 / 20
62k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 67
- Last 90 days
- 286
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 6 tools in DNS by health , just above AdGuard Home (#2) .
Details
| Licence | EUPL-1.2 |
| Platforms | Shell, PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v6.5 · 13 days ago |
| Stars | 61,565 |
| Open issues | 25 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | pi-hole/pi-hole ↗ |
Pi-hole vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Pi-hole (DNS), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pi-hole (this tool) | 99 | 62k | EUPL-1.2 | 3 days ago |
| AdGuard Home | 98 | 38k | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Technitium DNS Server | 96 | 10k | GPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| blocky | 95 | 7.1k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Numa | 93 | 2k | MIT | yesterday |
| Maza ad blocking | 25 | 1.9k | Apache-2.0 | 3 months ago |
Pi-hole: common questions
What does Pi-hole replace?
Repoly lists Pi-hole as an open-source alternative to Pi-hole Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Pi-hole stands against the others.
Is Pi-hole still maintained?
Pi-hole had 67 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v6.5, is from 13 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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