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AdGuard Home vs Pi-hole: catalog facts
AdGuard Home	Pi-hole
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. AdGuard also sells a hosted AdGuard DNS service…	Free Free and open source under the European Union Public Licence 1.2, funded by donations and…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted, Web
Acts as a DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC server itself One binary with a web interface, so installation is straightforward	Blocks advertising in mobile apps and on smart televisions, not just browsers Covers every device on the network with nothing installed on them
Run by a company that also sells blocking products, so the free tier is marketing Over-blocking breaks sites, as with any DNS blocker	Runs on Linux; it is not a program you install on a laptop Over-blocking breaks sites, and someone has to fix it when it does
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: EUPL-1.2
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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