DNS filtering
Asked as “DNS filtering service”, and as “DNS security solution”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 51 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
59%
Clear leader
59DNSFilter22Cloudflare Gateway06Cisco Umbrella14others
59% of first choices, clear leader.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
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Cloudflare Gateway22%2%48accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 22% now.
Cloudflare Gateway22%2%48accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 22% now.Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
For buyers
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
Key
01DNSFilter59%
DNSFilter59%02Cloudflare Gateway22%
Cloudflare Gateway22%03Cisco Umbrella6%
Cisco Umbrella6%04Control D2%
Control D2%05NextDNS2%
NextDNS2%06Quad90%
Quad90%07AdGuard DNS0%
AdGuard DNS0%08CleanBrowsing0%
CleanBrowsing0%09OpenDNS0%
OpenDNS0%What they warned about
Eight of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Cisco Umbrella25%
10 of 40 labels negative · 7 of 14 models
“its pricing and complexity can be prohibitive for small businesses, and setup can be steep... can be overkill or frustrating for smaller deployments” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Google Public DNS
100%
6 of 6 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Problematic Providers to Avoid ... Google's DNS and OpenDNS employ tracking for their specific needs” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
OpenDNS25%
4 of 16 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Services to **avoid or approach with high caution**: - **OpenDNS (Cisco)**: - Logs DNS queries... Performs NXDOMAIN hijacking” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
NextDNS15%
4 of 27 labels negative · 4 of 14 models
“**NextDNS/AdGuard**: Highly customizable (ads/trackers/parental), but free tiers have query limits” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
77 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1063 links across 225 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
45 answers · 75 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Control D42 answers · 84 citations · 14 models
vendor site · CyberPress31 answers · 40 citations · 11 models
31 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
vendor site · DNSFilter29 answers · 44 citations · 12 models
28 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
25 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
vendor site · SourceForge22 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 26 citations · 11 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
31 answers · 9 models
28 answers · 11 models
25 answers · 11 models
22 answers · 10 models
22 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 9 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best dns filtering service”, “dns filtering service”, “dns filtering services”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| DNSFilter dnsfilter.com | 59% | 171 | 4,400 | 83 | 12,152 | 75 | 1 |
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare Gateway 22%, Cloudflare One 4%, Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families 0% | 25% | 372 | 550,000 | 10,897 | |||
| Cisco parent site Cisco Umbrella 6%, Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense 2% | 8% | 145 | 165,000 | 48,352 | |||
| Control D controld.com | 2% | 68 | 5,400 | 1,658 | 21,852 | 3 | |
| NextDNS nextdns.io | 2% | 62 | 27,100 | 408 | 14,686 | ||
| WebTitan | 2% | 210 | 5 | ||||
| TitanSecure | 2% | ||||||
| Quad9 quad9.net | 0% | 53 | 5,400 | 235 | 5,594 | ||
| Cloudflare cloudflare.com | 0% | 430 | 550,000 | 10,897 | 4,995,413 | 111 | 4 |
| AdGuard DNS adguard-dns.io | 0% | 16 | 27,100 | 869 | 26,830 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (controld.com, dnsfilter.com, sourceforge.net, thectoclub.com). The first result for “best dns filtering service” is reddit.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best DNS filtering service for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which DNS security solution would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top DNS filtering services and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best DNS filtering service for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a DNS filtering service. What should we look at?”Negative“Which DNS filtering services should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5DNSFilterno first choiceChangedDNSFilterCloudflare Gatewayno first choiceagainst: Avast Business, Comcast xFi, Eero, Google Public DNS, LevelBlue, NextDNS, OpenDNS, T-Mobile
Three alternatives
Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector, Cloudflare Gateway, Prisma Access DNS SecurityFive alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, SafeDNS, TitanHQ WebTitan, Zscaler Internet AccessThree alternatives
Control D, DNSFilter, WebTitanGPT-5.4 miniDNSFilterCisco Secure Access – DNS DefenseChangedno first choiceNextDNSagainst: Cisco Umbrellano first choiceagainst: AdGuard DNS
Four alternatives
Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense, Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Zscaler DNS SecurityOne alternative
Cloudflare GatewayOne alternative
Cloudflare GatewayGemini 3.5 FlashDNSFilteragainst: Cisco UmbrellaDNSFilterHeldDNSFilterCloudflare Oneagainst: Cisco UmbrellaDNSFilteragainst: Cisco Umbrellaagainst: 114DNS, Baidu DNS, Comcast Business, Comodo Secure DNS, LevelBlue, Norton ConnectSafe, OpenDNS / Cisco Umbrella, Spectrum Business, Verizon, Yandex.DNS
Two alternatives
Cloudflare Gateway, Control DThree alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Infoblox BloxOne Threat DefenseSix alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Control D, NextDNS, Pi-hole, Quad9Three alternatives
CleanBrowsing, Control D, NextDNSTwo alternatives
Cloudflare One, NextDNSPerplexity SonarCloudflare Gateway, DNSFilterDNSFilterChangedQuad9DNSFilterno first choiceagainst: Avast Business, Browser Secure DNS, Comcast xFi Advanced Security, Eero Secure
Two alternatives
Control D, SafeDNSTwo alternatives
LevelBlue, Quad9Seven alternatives
AdGuard DNS, CleanBrowsing, Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNS, ScoutDNSTwo alternatives
Cloudflare Gateway, Control DGrok 4.1 FastDNSFilterCisco UmbrellaChangedNextDNSCloudflare Gatewayagainst: CleanBrowsing, Quad9Cisco Umbrella, DNSFilteragainst: AdGuard Family, CleanBrowsing, Cloudflare for Families, NextDNS, OpenDNS
Two alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare GatewayThree alternatives
Cloudflare Gateway, DNSFilter, WebTitanFive alternatives
AdGuard DNS, CleanBrowsing, DNSFilter, OpenDNS, Quad9Three alternatives
Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNSMistral SmallDNSFilterDNSFilterHeldno first choiceDNSFilterno first choiceagainst: NextDNS, Pi-hole
One alternative
LevelBlueOne alternative
TitanHQDeepSeek V4 FlashDNSFilterDNSFilterHeldagainst: Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox Threat DefenseDNSFilteragainst: OpenDNSCloudflare Gatewayno first choiceagainst: Cisco OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, Your ISP's Default DNS
Three alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Webroot DNS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Cloudflare Gateway, TitanHQSix alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Control D, Infoblox Threat Defense, NextDNS, Quad9Three alternatives
CleanBrowsing, DNSFilter, Quad9Llama 4 MaverickDNSFilter, WebTitanDNSFilter, TitanSecureChangedno first choiceDNSFilterno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare GatewayCloudflare GatewayHeldNextDNSCloudflare Oneagainst: Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet AccessDNSFilteragainst: Zscaler Internet Accessagainst: BlueCat DNS Integrity, Cisco Umbrella, CleanBrowsing, DNSFilter.com, Neustar SecureDNS, Perimeter81
Two alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, DNSFilterThree alternatives
Cisco SecureDNS, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks Prisma AccessFive alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, CleanBrowsing, Cloudflare, OpenDNS, Quad9Three alternatives
DNSFilter, SafeDNS, ScoutDNSThree alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, FortiGateKimi K2DNSFilteragainst: Quad9DNSFilterHeldagainst: NextDNSno first choiceCloudflare Gatewayno first choiceagainst: Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, DNSFilter
Two alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare GatewayTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense, Cloudflare GatewaySeven alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Control D, DNSFilter, Infoblox Threat Defense, WebTitanThree alternatives
Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNSGLM 4.7 FlashXDNSFilterDNSFilterHeldCisco UmbrellaDNSFilteragainst: Cisco Umbrella, CleanBrowsing, OpenDNS Family Shield, Quad9no first choiceagainst: Google Public DNS, OpenDNS / Cisco Umbrella, Your ISP's Default DNS
Three alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Infoblox BloxOne DDIFour alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, Control D, Zscaler DNS SecurityNine alternatives
AdGuard DNS, Cloudflare Gateway, Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNS, Quad9, ScoutDNS, WebTitan, Zscaler DNS SecurityOne alternative
Control D SMBMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare Gateway, DNSFilteragainst: Zscaler Internet AccessCisco Umbrella, DNSFilterChangedno first choiceCloudflare Gateway, Control Dno first choiceagainst: Google Public DNS, ISP-Provided DNS Servers
One alternative
Cisco UmbrellaThree alternatives
Cloudflare, IBM NS1 Connect, TitanHQTwo alternatives
DNSFilter, SafeDNSGPT-6 LunaDNSFilterDNSFilterHeldQuad9against: Cisco UmbrellaCloudflare Gatewayno first choiceagainst: Google Public DNS
Two alternatives
Cisco Secure Access, Cloudflare GatewayTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense, Cloudflare GatewayFour alternatives
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNSOne alternative
DNSFilter CoreMuse Glimmer 30BDNSFilterDNSFilterHeldNextDNSCloudflare Gatewayno first choiceagainst: Google Public DNS, OpenDNS
Two alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare GatewayTwo alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare GatewayFive alternatives
Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare DNS, Cloudflare Gateway, DNSFilter, OpenDNSThree alternatives
Control D, DNSFilter, NextDNSBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:38 | yes | 17 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:49 | yes | 4 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:25 | yes | 15 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:14 | yes | 26 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:20 | yes | 25 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:40 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:33 | yes | 24 | 42 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:19 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:22 | yes | 9 | 38 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:39 | yes | 10 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:35 | yes | 22 | 44 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:28 | yes | 13 | 19 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 4 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 14 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:49 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:03 | yes | 2 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:49 | yes | 7 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:28 | yes | 15 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:44 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:25 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 22 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:01 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:57 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:34 | yes | 20 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:46 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:26 | yes | 8 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:33 | yes | 3 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:55 | yes | 12 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:57 | yes | 9 | 10 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:23 | yes | 8 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:54 | yes | 23 | 29 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 25 | 4 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:26 | yes | 21 | 11 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:13 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:33 | yes | 21 | 70 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:35 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:45 | yes | 15 | 52 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 18 | 26 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:30 | yes | 19 | 149 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:09 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:55 | yes | 6 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:48 | yes | 12 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:22 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:24 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 22 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:17 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:17 | yes | 24 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:12 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 24 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:41 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:26 | yes | 19 | 34 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 25 | 72 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:18 | yes | 11 | 33 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 2 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 15 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:53 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:50 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:12 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:19 | yes | 28 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 12 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:50 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:09 | yes | 24 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:11 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:47 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:43 | yes | 13 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:54 | yes | 10 | 45 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:38 | yes | 3 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:16 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:13 | yes | 26 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:51 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:11 | yes | 19 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:16 | yes | 25 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:44 | yes | 24 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:24 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:43 | yes | 24 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:35 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:18 | yes | 15 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:50 | yes | 24 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:27 | yes | 24 | 50 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:56 | yes | 21 | 65 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 3 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 01:35 | yes | 23 | 32 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Akamai read as Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector
Infoblox read as Infoblox Threat Defense
Palo Alto DNS Security read as Palo Alto Networks DNS Security
TitanHQ's WebTitan read as TitanHQ WebTitan
Zscaler read as Zscaler Internet Access
Unresolved, counted raw
114DNS
Baidu DNS
BlueCat Edge
Browser Secure DNS
Cisco OpenDNS
Cisco SecureDNS
Cloudflare Families
Cloudflare for Families
Comcast xFi
Comcast xFi Advanced Security
Comodo Secure DNS
CrowdStrike Falcon DNS Layer
DNSFilter Core
DNSFilter.com
Eero
Eero Secure
Fortinet FortiDNS
Gladius
ISP-Provided DNS Servers
Mullvad's DNS
Neustar SecureDNS
Norton ConnectSafe
OpenBLD
OpenDNS Family Shield
OpenDNS from Cisco
Prisma Access DNS Security
T-Mobile
Yandex.DNS
Zscaler DNS
Discontinued, still offered
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