ScoutDNS Reviews & Product Details

ScoutDNS Product Details

ScoutDNS is a next-generation Protective DNS platform designed to secure networks and users from online threats, inappropriate content, and emerging risks, both on and off-network. With both agent-based and network-based deployment options, ScoutDNS offers flexible protection for any environment. It safeguards users on any device with a lightweight agent and secures entire networks through seamless DNS filtering, blocking malicious domains, inappropriate content, and shadow IT at the DNS layer. ScoutDNS delivers real-time visibility and actionable analytics, enabling enhanced threat detection and compliance. Integration with Active Directory and Entra ID simplifies user-based policy management and supports compliance frameworks like CIPA, NIST, and CMMC. Trusted by IT teams, MSPs, schools, and enterprises, ScoutDNS provides scalable, proactive DNS protection, helping organizations block threats before they reach endpoints while ensuring user productivity and network security.

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Product Description

ScoutDNS is a cloud based content filtering and malware protection solution that operates at the DNS Layer. ScoutDNS combines A.I. powered domain and content data feeds with detailed DNS layer insights for network administrators to better understand and protect their networks. Using innovative methods, ScoutDNS identifies and protect against all manners of DNS layer threats.

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Tim Adams (DNS Layer Security, Founder at ScoutDNS)

Pricing

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Network Standard

Starting at $0.80

1 User Per Month

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High level system overview

Manage 6 threat, 67 content, and 16 application categories

Easy to configure web managed roaming clients with remote disable and uninstall through the UI.

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Gus R.

President

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/4/2025

"Best MSP Driven DNS Program in the market"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

ScoutDNS features an intuitive, visually-rich interface that is straightforward to navigate and allows users to efficiently leverage its advanced capabilities. The dashboards have proven especially valuable during our quarterly business review meetings with clients. Designed with managed service providers in mind, ScoutDNS offers robust flexibility in both features and branding. Additionally, the wide range of available categories enhances its adaptability to diverse needs. ScoutDNS is actively improving its interface, features and listens to our input which is great to see from a company. Support is also fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

It is hard to identify significant areas for improvement, as the performance thus far has been commendable. However, if one aspect were to be highlighted, enhancing the API to enable integration with additional programs such as SOC or SIEM would be beneficial. Notably, this area is already under development and is expected to be addressed in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ScoutDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

ScoutDNS offers an enhanced layer of security for our clients while browsing the internet. It restricts access to over 60 distinct categories, providing greater flexibility compared to other solutions we have evaluated. Additionally, ScoutDNS addresses the need for DNS protection for remote users or laptops outside the primary client's network. Its dynamic features effectively resolve this challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Daniel M.

Senior Systems Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/17/2025

"Does What It Says on the Tin!"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

Easy to setup, reliable and fantastic support.

It really is one of the best web filter and DNS security products available on the market today. We've tried a variety of competitors products and ScoutDNS was the first and only product that has stood the test of time.

Along with that their pricing model is easy and simple to understand, and works really well for us in the MSP space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

We haven't experienced any dislikes or downsides to using the product so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Brandon D.

Technical Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/8/2025

"Great Product"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

ScoutDNS is easy to use and provides the necessary options to support our clients. The software is easy to configure, can be disabled or uninstalled from the portal, logs activity, and has flexibility in the options for blocking/allowing sites and categories. Customer support has been wonderful, even including help from the Founder/CEO! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

Site could be laid out slightly better and have a dark mode implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ScoutDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

ScoutDNS allows us to provide our clients with DNS filtering of malicious content and specific categories of websites that they would not like users to utilize. Some of the categories cover pornography, gambling, criminal skills, hate speech, and more. As well, certain web application categories can be blocked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ryan G.

IT Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2025

"Simple but Powerful, MSP focused DNS Filtering"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

Very easy onboarding with direct support to answer any questions with billing or implementation. Very reasonable price per agent. They are also quite receptive to feedback and the platform is evolving quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

Some small bugs here and there in the web portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kaleb B.

Centralized Services Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/9/2025

"A powerful DNS filtering tool with robust customer service and the right price"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

- Every function and feature that we need

- Personable business relationship with clear and timely communication

- 10/10 customer service

- Accessible UI

- Effortless deployment

- Set it and forget it

- Extremely competitive pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

- UI is occasionally slow to respond

- Limited SIEM integration and reporting capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Johan v.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/14/2025

"Reliable, Friendly, and Focused on Our Success"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

ScoutDNS delivers where it matters. Their solution is intuitive, lightweight, and incredibly easy to manage. What sets them apart is the team behind the product, responsive, helpful, and genuinely invested in customer success. It's refreshing to work with a company focused on relationships over revenue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

Honestly, there’s nothing significant to dislike. The product works as expected and the support team is always responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jonathan S.

Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2025

"Really useful DNS filtering"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

Easy to set up, easy to report and monitor, great support from the team. Would definitely recommend as another option for DNS filtering, especially when devices are out of the office using the Scout Agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

need to keep an eye on costs but otherwise a great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dylan F.

Principal Solution Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/3/2024

"No hassles & amazing team to work with"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

Our deployment strategy has been focused around the 360 roaming client. We have been utilising ScoutDNS for client web filtering for quite a few years now and have seen the product continue to grow. Our fleet of 360 clients is around 500 and the complete lack of incidents around this agent and supported devices is fantastic. The administration portal has been improved to provide easier methods to deploy, configure and report.

Tim, Mike and the entire team have been nothing short of amazing to deal with throughout our entire journey.

If you are on the fence for this one: give it a try - you won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

We have not identified any downsides of this product when we compared it to other options in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Richard G.

IT Consultant, Managed Services Provider

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/12/2023

"Cost-effective, easy-to-manage DNS firewall"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

ScoutDNS is simple to configure, whether your external address is static or dynamic.

Categories are easy to configure as allowed or blocked, and exceptions can be added for either allowed or blocked sites.

Logging allows you to see what is being blocked (or allowed) and what category the request most closely matches; can add any site to the allow/block list directly from the log page.

One-click social media block is genius!

Support team is excellent and they are responsive to questions and feature suggestions.

Trial period allows you to demonstrate the product with no commitment from the client.

We use this in educational (K-12) settings, as the price and feature set cannot be beat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

Takes a bit of work to set up DDNS for dynamic external address, but that's not the fault of ScoutDNS.

Wish they had a chromebook client, like they do for Mac and Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ScoutDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

ScoutDNS is protecting students by providing a safe online environment. It's tricky to balance the desires of the school (easy access to everything educational) with the cesspool that is the internet. Sometimes the category blocks are excellent, and sometimes they need to be modified a bit by adjusting YouTube or SafeSearch settings, or by fine tuning the allow/block list. I find that once you set things up, you don't need to spend much time administering the system. And that is beneficial for the school and for us, the MSP. ScoutDNS is an efficient use of the school's resources and our time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Shreya B.

Cloud Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/14/2023

"ScoutDNS offers comprehensive DNS filtering & Access control solutions for our enterprise network"

5/5

What do you like best about ScoutDNS?

For our remote & hybrid models, ScoutDNS offers multiple roaming clients, effectively redirecting our internal DNS traffic to our DNS servers

All end-user activities, such as authentication, frequent searches and updates, are tracked through its AD DS (Active Directory Domain Service)

Its website categorization lookup helps deduce the domain name category, and we can verify it quickly in its intuitive dashboard.

We can also schedule scanning of our domain network logs to identify malicious attacks & prevent potential intrusions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ScoutDNS?

We have recently started using ScoutDNS for our new requirement from the client to address DNS layer security.

Setting up specific filters on our domain is superb & offers a wide range of deployment options & granularity.

Overall, we are satisfied with its services for our enterprise network security, as we can whitelist any domain without needing to create/apply a custom policy to our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ScoutDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The DNS filtering solution offered by ScoutDNS is beneficial for blocking all malicious threats and inappropriate content.

We create custom DNS filtering policies and define our content category, thread category and compliance requirements with a few clicks.

We obtain a centralized management console to overview user-level activities, threat insights & granular control over the security policies.

By enabling its DNS inspection feature, all undesirable queries or responses would be effectively stopped & connection to our enterprise network would be prevented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.