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Control D SMB

2Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Control D SMB was named 1 time in DNS filtering, where DNSFilter led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 54
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market29 of 94
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In dns filtering · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Control D SMB for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
DNS filteringNetwork and edge0%29 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Control D SMB yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Control D SMB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Control D SMB (≈ $2 /endpoint /month) is a strong second choice” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DNS filtering · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Control D SMB, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Control D SMB was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cloudflare Gateway1 of 21Not among the top eight
DNSFilter1 of 21Not among the top eight
Cisco Umbrella1 of 20Not among the top eight
CleanBrowsing1 of 20Not among the top eight
OpenBLD1 of 20Not among the top eight
OpenDNS Family Shield1 of 20Not among the top eight
Quad91 of 20Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Control D SMB. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Control D SMB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

controld.comYour site2
aijourn.com1
cleanbrowsing.org1
cloudflare.com1
cyberpress.org1
dnsfilter.com1
g2.com1
gbhackers.com1
ifeeltech.com1
itechguides.com1

Nine of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Control D SMB came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aijourn.com/best-free-low-cost-dns-servers-in-20261
cleanbrowsing.org/compare/opendns1
cleanbrowsing.org/pricing1
cleanbrowsing.org/solutions/business1
cleanbrowsing.org/solutions/schools1
cleanbrowsing.org/solutions/wifi-serviceproviders1
cloudflare.com/plans/zero-trust-services1
controld.com/blog/best-opendns-alternatives1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

controld.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Control D SMB takes 0% of first choices and DNSFilter takes 59%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “dns filtering service”
7
Position for “dns filtering services”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 21,852 a month
Searches its site ranks for
3,736 · 152 in the top three
Sites linking to it
3,660
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 29 of 94 in DNS filtering
Segment leader
59%
DNSFilter
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on controld.com
1,723
subdomains included
Content
1,335
counted in the table below
Documentation
293
Product · Integration
17 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Template or tool1,03902026-02-05CDN
Blog18292026-08-28CDN
Comparison6112026-07-30
Glossary or explainer3002025-11-21
Podcast or video1562026-09-17
Case study502026-05-18
Report or ebook202023-09-15
Conference or event1undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page controld.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name CDN (12); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

Control D SMB is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
DNS filtering for Every OS
controld.com
Free plan or trial
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Certifications
SOC 2 CertifiedISO 27001 CertifiedISO 27701 CertifiedGDPR CompliantSOC2 Type II CompliantSSPA Compliant
Hosting
New York (US)Amsterdam (Netherlands)Sydney (Australia)
Customers named
GitHubNetwork Information Technologies, LLCPinnacle ICTPennsylvania College of TechnologyGood Heart TechnologyMassey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall7 Security Group
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations

What Control D SMB's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: controld.com, controld.com/plans, controld.com/compliance, controld.com/features/analytics, controld.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Control D SMB is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Control D SMB, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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