Speed and Features Comparison

The world's most popular free DNS service, developed by Google. Offers high speed, reliability and is globally available.

• Exceptional speed
• 99.9% uptime
• Full IPv6 support
• No censorship or filtering

The world's fastest DNS according to multiple benchmarks. Cloudflare focuses on privacy and doesn't log your personal IP address.

• Fastest globally
• Privacy focused
• No personal IP logging
• Anti-malware protection

IBM's free DNS service focused on security that automatically blocks malicious domains, phishing and botnets.

• Automatic malware blocking
• Phishing protection
• No user logs
• IBM backed

Cisco's DNS service with excellent parental control options and customizable content filtering.

• Advanced parental controls
• Content filtering
• Usage statistics
• Phishing blocking

DNS that blocks ads, trackers and malicious domains. Perfect for browsing without annoying advertisements.

• Ad blocking
• Anti-tracking
• Malware protection
• No browsing logs

Modern DNS with advanced configuration, detailed analytics and granular control over content filtering.

• Custom configuration
• Detailed analytics
• Multiple blocklists
• Developer API

Accepts encrypted queries only (DoH/DoT). These IPs will not work as plain DNS in a router.

Mullvad VPN public resolver, no account or sign-up. Six filtering variants with openly published blocklists. Works only over encrypted DNS.

• No logs, no account
• Six filtering levels
• Open blocklists
• Requires DoH or DoT

DNS from popular Russian search engine Yandex with three modes: basic, safe and family with additional filters.

• Three operation modes
• Family mode with filters
• Good speed in Europe
• Basic malware protection

DNS specialized in content filtering with different protection levels for families and businesses.

• Three filtering levels
• Family protection
• Malware blocking
• No activity logs

Modern and customizable DNS with advanced filtering, analytics and multi-protocol support.

• Highly customizable
• Multiple protocols
• Detailed analytics
• Advanced filtering

European sovereign public DNS, backed by the European Union to ensure privacy and GDPR compliance.

• European digital sovereignty
• GDPR compliance
• Malware filtering
• EU infrastructure

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Comodo's security-focused DNS with integrated malware and phishing protection.

• Malware protection
• Phishing blocking
• Global infrastructure
• No extra cost

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German DNS focused on neutrality and privacy. No logging, no filtering, no censorship.

• No logging
• No filtering
• Total privacy
• Servers in Germany

Spanish public DNS, with servers in Madrid and no logging. When an IP is blocked by Spanish ISPs, it answers with another address from the same CDN that still works.

• Servers in Madrid
• No query logs
• Profiles with and without ad blocking
• Works around CDN IP blocks

Accepts encrypted queries only (DoH/DoT). These IPs will not work as plain DNS in a router.

Danish resolver run by one person since 2009, with his own money and no logging at all. It filters nothing and only answers encrypted queries: DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3.

• Logs nothing at all
• No filtering or censorship
• DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3
• Anycast plus a Copenhagen node

Accepts encrypted queries only (DoH/DoT). These IPs will not work as plain DNS in a router.

Activist project by LibreOps in Greece: no logs, DoH and DoT only. A second endpoint blocks ads and trackers using a crowdsourced list. It does not validate DNSSEC.

• No logs
• Ad-free endpoint
• DoH and DoT only
• Open source

Accepts encrypted queries only (DoH/DoT). These IPs will not work as plain DNS in a router.

Resolver of the Digitale Gesellschaft association in Basel, with no logs, no blocklists and DNSSEC validation. DoT and DoH only. Run by volunteers, who say plainly that availability is best effort.

• Swiss jurisdiction
• No logs, no blocklists
• Validates DNSSEC
• DoT and DoH only

Resolver by xTom, a Düsseldorf company, with 30 anycast nodes on six continents. No query or IP logging, no ECS sent upstream, DNSSEC validation, and it works on port 53, DoT and DoH.

• No logs, no ECS
• Anycast on 30 nodes
• Validates DNSSEC
• Port 53, DoT and DoH

The public resolver of Hurricane Electric, one of the largest backbones in the world and the largest on IPv6. No filtering, DNSSEC, and DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3 at ordns.he.net. It publishes no logging policy for this service.

• Global backbone
• No filtering
• DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3
• Excellent on IPv6

The public DNS of Alibaba Cloud, the most used in China alongside Tencent’s. From there it is fast and uses ECS to bring content closer; outside China it has no advantage. DoH and DoT. It does not validate DNSSEC and keeps logs.

• Fast inside China
• DoH and DoT
• ECS for CDNs
• No DNSSEC validation

Public DNS+ by DNSPod, the Tencent Cloud subsidiary. Plain DNS at 119.29.29.29 and DoH/DoT at doh.pub and dot.pub. Built for Chinese networks; latency rises outside China. It does not validate DNSSEC and keeps logs.

• Run by Tencent Cloud
• DoH and DoT (doh.pub)
• Fast inside China
• No DNSSEC validation