# Ubiquiti UniFi router

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Ubiquiti UniFi router and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for policy-based routing, DNS filtering and a straightforward setup. Common caveat: it lacks some features, such as conditional routing for ipsets.

## Why people recommend it

- Policy-based routing by hostname (2 comments): "a simpler setup would be to do policy based routing by hostnames through a vpn client maintained in the router config" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081775)) "This can be done on UniFi using policy based routing too trivially" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083429))
- DNS filtering and caching (2 comments): "you can use it for this purpose (and caching) by broadcasting its IP as the default DNS server" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712851)) "the best way is to use a router that can filter DNS requests (ie Unifi)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713045))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [MikroTik router](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mikrotik-router.md): 59 recommend
- [GL.iNet travel router](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gl-inet-travel-router.md): 54 recommend
- [Ubiquiti UniFi Travel Router](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unifi-travel-router.md): 35 recommend
- [OpenWrt One](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openwrt-one.md): 34 recommend
- [Ubiquiti UniFi 5G](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unifi-5g.md): 17 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ubiquiti+UniFi+router&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Official site](https://ui.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ubiquiti UniFi router", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ubiquiti-unifi-router/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).