Pi-hole vs Technitium DNS Server

Both are self-hosted dns projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Technitium DNS Server scores 76 against Pi-hole's 64, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Pi-hole may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Pi-hole	Technitium DNS Server
Health score	64/100	76/100
Commits (11 mo)	254	616
Commits (last 3 mo)	29	172
Stars	61k	10k
Latest release	6 Jul 2026	26 Sept 2026
Licence	EUPL-1.2	GPL-3.0
Built with	Shell, PHP, Docker	Docker, C#
Typical RAM	2 GB	2 GB

Pi-hole

Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring.

64/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 19/40

Releases 21/25

Community 20/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 49% of tracked projects; popularity more than 98%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Technitium DNS Server

Authoritative/recursive DNS server with ad blocking functionality.

76/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 28/40

Releases 25/25

Community 16/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 69% of tracked projects; popularity more than 79%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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