| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · DNS Server Software | 8.1 (#4) | 7.8 (#7) |
| Integrations | It provides Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, REST API endpoints, and a CLI tool. | The site lists plugins for Kubernetes, etcd, Microsoft Azure DNS, GCP Cloud DNS, and AWS Route53. |
| Security | It supports DNSSEC validation and says it collects no user data, telemetry, or statistics. | The forward plugin supports TLS connections to upstream DNS servers and sets the minimum TLS version to TLS 1.2. |
| What it does | Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad blocker for local networks, written in Go. | CoreDNS is a DNS server written in Go. |
