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mosdns vs AdGuard Home: catalog facts
mosdns	AdGuard Home
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. AdGuard also sells a hosted AdGuard DNS service…
Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Rule-based routing of domains to different upstreams Supports DoT, DoH and DoQ	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
Documentation is in Chinese Configuration requires editing plugin rules by hand	Run by a company that also sells blocking products, so the free tier is marketing Over-blocking breaks sites, as with any DNS blocker
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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