DNS & ad blocking
AdGuard Home
Network-wide ad and tracker blocker from a Cypriot company.
open source self-hostable hosted in Europe AdGuard Software Ltd. · CYLike Pi-hole with encrypted DNS built in; also offered as a hosted DNS service.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted in Europe | servers in Europe, run by a European company | free | yellow — European company, European servers, but someone else runs it. |
Facts
| Company / project | AdGuard Software Ltd. (CY) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 128 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | NextDNS |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 36,663 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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