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cloudflare-verified-ddnsvspihole-unbound-tailscale-dockerized

Two self-hosted DNS projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

cloudflare-verified-ddnspihole-unbound-tailscale-dockerized
Score21/10042/100
Rank in category#41 of 41 in DNS#30 of 41 in DNS
GitHub stars1161
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—1.0.0 · 29 Mar 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
License—MIT
Main languagePython—

Which one should you pick?

pihole-unbound-tailscale-dockerized scores 42/100 against 21/100 for cloudflare-verified-ddns, so it is the safer default.

pihole-unbound-tailscale-dockerized ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for cloudflare-verified-ddns.

If you want the quickest setup, cloudflare-verified-ddns is easier to run; pihole-unbound-tailscale-dockerized needs more configuration.

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