DNSFilter 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Features
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User Reviews

Overview

DNSFilter

4.7

(86)

Pricing

Starting at $1.00 per month

About DNSFilter

DNSFilter is a cloud-based cybersecurity software that helps businesses leverage AI technology and DNS protection to streamline threat detection and content filtering processes. Professionals can classify unknown websites into multiple categories and block malicious web content to prevent malware or ransomware activities.

Roaming Client - Prevent access to unwanted and malicious content on all devices, on and off your network. Get credit for switching from Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client.

DNS Filtering - Block threats at the DNS level and make internet browsing safer and faster.

Content Filtering - Customize the content you'd like to block and allow with our machine-learning content filtering capabilities.

Fast & Easy Implementation - 53% of DNSFilter customers get up-and-running within 1 day.

Our product is powered by artificial intelligence that analyzes domains in real time, meaning we stop more threats than our competitors whom often take weeks through human review.

DNSFilter comes with a dashboard, which allows organizations to gain an overview of active sites, top domains, and other metrics on a centralized platform. Managers can block specific categories of content rel...

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DNSFilter Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Botnet Protection
Content Filtering
Email Support
Malware
Network Deployment
Phishing
Real-Time AI Detection

Pro

$2.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Active Directory Support
Administrative Audit Log
Botnet Protection
Chat Support
Content Filtering
Desktop Roaming Clients
DNS Encryption
Email Support
Malware
Network Deployment

Enterprise

$3.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

90-Day Report Retention
9-Day Query Log Retention
Active Directory Support
Administrative Audit Log
Android Roaming Clients
Botnet Protection
Chat Support
Chrome Roaming Clients
Content Filtering
Desktop Roaming Clients

Popular features found in Network Security
Anomaly/Malware Detection
Anti Virus
Compliance Management
Intrusion Prevention System
Patch Management
Policy Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
Risk Alerts
VPN
Vulnerability Scanning
More features of DNSFilter
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Escalation
Anti Spam
API
Application Security
Audit Management
Authentication
Billing & Invoicing
Content Filtering
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Endpoint Management
Endpoint Protection
Filtering
Firewalls
IOC Verification
Monitoring
Remote Access/Control
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Threat Protection
Threat Response
Two-Factor Authentication
Web Traffic Reporting
Whitelisting/Blacklisting

DNSFilter Integrations

Zapier

DNSFilter User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

79%

17%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.6

Gabino S.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Excellent

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple to install and it actually works !! Support is excellent always prompt and knowledgeable. And the override button sorts out any issues

Cons:

No fixed per month fee and sometimes bank websites don't work and need to be whitelisted. Otherwise it would be nice to have separate password levels for accessing websites

Verified

Reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Easy and very helpful

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Filtering at a great price, It is easy to setup and select the filters you need for that particular site and I love the branding feature

Cons:

Does not have an option for School Filtering, I use this application to filter schools and home internet but I have to also use K9 filtering because this doesn't cover it all and sometimes SSL could not be filtered

Dirk V.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

Self-Employed

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Very promising but does not deliver…

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Deployement is easy to start, Dashboard looks good.

Cons:

fine tuning is difficult and lacking in several domains. The usefull extras are expensive. Customer support is not responsive at all. Be careful with sharing your credit card data during the trial period. They charge you immediately and if you cancel you lose access to the service (even when charged).

Levon B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Layers of Security

We use DNSFilter at our clients sites as part of a standard "Border" security set. It is used along side Hardware Web Filtering, Malware/AV scanning, etc. It is great to add as an additional layer, as well as having the client software on roaming laptops help us protect these devices when they are on the go!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of integrating into customer sites.

Cons:

At this point, there is nothing I do not like.

Andrew C.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

The service works well and is reliable.

Better internet speed, and in today's world that is huge.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, setup was a breeze, and the service reliability has been 100% uptime. The response speed of DNS resolution and the reliability is better than the local ISP. DNS resolution affects the user's perception of the internet speed and reliability. This service is becoming a must-have for my customers.

Cons:

I would like the ability to blacklist and whitelist IP addresses for customers who do not have a local router.

Dustin B.

Verified reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Superb product which is easy to manage!

DNS filtering without breaking the bank. Ability to rapidly deploy to potential clients with minimal configuration. Love the continual development as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Continual development of new features, dead simple pricing, granular configuration and reporting mechanisms.

Cons:

Lack of transparency when choosing a particular category to block. Would love to have granular control over items in blocklists, with the ability to add my own to the category (or create my own category)

Reuben H.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Easy Setup and Powerfull Settings

We have eliminated the need for client based web filtering and are able to do that from for the entire network. This has eliminated some computer performance issues we experienced when we used client based web filtering.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We primarily use DNSFilter as a basic website filter and secondarily as a web protection filter against malicious sites. Ease of configuring and setup is amazing.

Cons:

This isn't necessarily a con on the software itself. I need better instructions on preventing DNS circumvention for configuring my router with DNSFilter.

Trever J.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Was easy to setup and change filters.

It was nice to have a cloud based option for DNS filtering without having to have an appliance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Predefined filters make it easy to block content that we wanted blocked, while not blocking the content we wanted. It was also really easy to unblock a site if it was needed.

Cons:

Using dynamic dns was a little bit more complicated. Our sites all use dynamic dns and would have just been easier if we did not have to go through the setting up of a dynamic dns name.

Randy S.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

As an MSSP, DNSFilter provides us a solution that's easy to implement, cost effective and brandable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PRO: As a DNS-based filtering solution, DNSFilter is easy to implement as it does not require additional hardware and can be enforced on "corporate" & "guest" devices without any device-specific configuration.

Cons:

CON: As a DNS-based filtering solution, everything is captured in the logs; user and system generated events. This makes its difficult to generate reports that show events that are exclusively generated by users.

Hasanuddin A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Most featured DNS system

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

DNSFilter has virtually all features that an internet user need for the Internet access control. For its class, I would say it has the cheapest price too compared to other competitors.

Cons:

Really nothing to dislike besides the DNS protocol itself has limitations such as DNS cache issues

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