Full-stack recovery
The visitor is asked to allowlist the site, and the publisher's own ad stack loads again. Admiral reports five to nine times the RPM of reinsertion in its own head-to-head comparisons.
AntiAdBlock Core vs Admiral
A flat public price for adblock recovery vs Admiral's visitor relationship suite, which takes 30% of the ad revenue it recovers.
Admiral is a visitor relationship management (VRM) suite whose anti-adblock recovery costs 30% of the ad revenue it recovers. AntiAdBlock Core detects ad blockers and asks those visitors to allow ads, for a flat monthly price. Choose Admiral for one reader-revenue vendor, AntiAdBlock Core if recovery is all you need.
Weighing Admiral's 30% share? Measure your own ad-blocked traffic on a flat plan first.
Admiral data checked onSee sources
AdmiralVisitor relationship suite
AntiAdBlock CoreAd-block detection and recovery
- How recovery is priced
- 30% of recovered ad revenue
- Flat monthly price
- Free option
- 7-day trial, free analytics
- Free plan, no end date
- Getting started
- Free trial or demo
- Online, no sales call
- Recovery routes
- Allowlist ask, Acceptable Ads, proxy
- Notice asking to allow ads
Where Admiral's 30% share passes a flat plan
A revenue share costs little while recovery is small and grows with it. Past the point where it crosses one of our flat plans, every extra $1,000 Admiral recovers for you costs $300.
Ad revenue recovered per month (USD, log scale)
30%of recovered ad revenue: Admiral's recovery fee
$16.67recovered a month: from here Admiral's 30% costs more than Pro ($5.00)
$43.30recovered a month: from here Admiral's 30% costs more than Max ($12.99)
$99.97recovered a month: from here Admiral's 30% costs more than Business ($29.99)
Of every $100 of ad revenue recovered
$30 goes to Admiral, $70 stays with you
All $100 stays with you: AntiAdBlock Core charges a flat price instead
What Admiral's 30% comes to, per month and per year
To place your own site on the chart, use the figure from your Admiral dashboard, or estimate your ad-blocked revenue with our ad-block revenue calculator.
This compares what each one charges, not what each one recovers: it makes no assumption about your traffic, your ad-block rate or your results. Admiral's 30% applies to the ad revenue Admiral reports as recovered (getadmiral.com/pricing, checked November 1, 2026). AntiAdBlock Core plans are sized by detections, not by revenue.
- $100 of ad revenue recovered a month: Admiral's 30% is $30 a month, $360 a year.
- $500 recovered a month: $150 a month, $1,800 a year.
- $1,000 recovered a month: $300 a month, $3,600 a year.
- $5,000 recovered a month: $1,500 a month, $18,000 a year.
- $10,000 recovered a month: $3,000 a month, $36,000 a year.
AntiAdBlock Core Business stays at $29.99 a month, with 5,000,000 detections on 5 sites. Below each crossing point in the chart, Admiral's share costs less than that plan; the Free plan covers up to 5,000 detections a month at $0.
Admiral vs AntiAdBlock Core at a glance
| Aspect | Admiral | AntiAdBlock Core |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A VRM suite: adblock recovery plus paywalls, registration walls, email capture and its own consent tool13 | Ad-block detection and a recovery notice, on top of the ad network you already use |
| How recovery is priced | 30% of recovered ad revenue, nothing upfront, with what Admiral calls "risk-free 100% guaranteed net revenue"1 | Flat monthly or annual price from $5 a month; no revenue share, no setup fee (better here) |
| Rest of the suite | All-in-one from $250 a month; paywalls take 15% of subscriptions sold; registration walls, Connect and consent from $50 a month per domain1 (better here) | Not offered: no paywall, subscriptions, donations, email capture or consent tool |
| Free option | 7-day free trial; ad-block analytics free1 | Free plan with no end date: 5,000 detections a month, no payment method (better here) |
| Getting started | Free trial from its pricing page; demos offered12 | Sign up online in minutes; no sales call |
| Recovery routes | Asks visitors to allowlist and restores your full ad stack; also Acceptable Ads and proxy reinsertion, server-side protection, subscriptions and donations62 (better here) | A notice asking visitors to allow ads on your site; your current ad network keeps serving, nothing to replace |
| Blockers covered | Targets "aggressive" and "militant" blockers and says it identifies network, VPN and DNS blocking; publishes no per-mode results for uBlock Origin Lite28 | AdBlock, Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, uBlock Origin Lite (Basic, Optimal and Complete), AdGuard, Ghostery and Brave Shields; DNS-level blocking included in your rate and shown as a separate count |
| Script delivery | Optional proxy that routes calls through your domain (Admiral Protect)7 | First-party delivery from a subdomain of your domain on every plan, Free included |
| Setup | One tag; recovery "within 5 minutes of sign-up", per Admiral; WordPress plugin29 | One async tag in your page head (about 60 seconds) or the WordPress plugin |
| Privacy and consent | Sells its own consent tool: a Google-approved CMP, listed as IAB TCF CMP ID 945 | No tracking cookies, no fingerprinting, no visitor IDs; daily totals per site |
Admiral column: getadmiral.com (pricing, adblock recovery, privacy consent, about) and blog.getadmiral.com, checked on November 1, 2026. Sources are listed in How we compared below.
Admiral pricing: a 30% revenue share vs a flat monthly price
Admiral publishes its prices. Its anti-adblock recovery is "100% performance priced": Admiral keeps 30% of the ad revenue it recovers, charges nothing upfront and promises what it calls "risk-free 100% guaranteed net revenue". Ad-block analytics are free. The rest of the suite is priced separately: the all-in-one plan starts at $250 a month, paywalls and subscriptions take 15% of subscriptions sold, and registration walls, Connect and consent start at $50 a month per domain, in tiers by monthly traffic. There is a 7-day free trial. Contract terms are not published.
AntiAdBlock Core charges a flat price instead: the Free plan ($0, 5,000 detections a month), then Pro at $5, Max at $12.99 and Business at $29.99 a month for 5,000,000 detections. Plans are sized by detections, the page views where a blocker is detected; page views without a blocker never count. Nothing is taken from the revenue you recover, there is no setup fee, and you cancel from the dashboard. Prices are in US dollars. Full details on AntiAdBlock Core pricing.
- Free5,000 detections/moFree
- Pro100,000 detections/mo$5/mo
- Max1,500,000 detections/mo$12.99/mo
- Business5,000,000 detections/mo$29.99/mo
Prices in US dollars. Only page views where an ad blocker is detected count; the rest never use your quota.
What is VRM by Admiral?
VRM stands for visitor relationship management, the name Admiral gives to its platform; it calls itself "The Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Company". Under one tag it sells adblock recovery, paywalls and subscription management, registration walls and email, privacy consent, first-party data (Connect), social growth, Visitor Copilot and copyright access control. Admiral says thousands of publishers use it, and its pages quote customers such as WRAL and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Anti-adblock recovery is one module of that suite. AntiAdBlock Core is not a VRM: it has no paywall, subscriptions, donations, email capture or consent tool. It does one job: detecting ad blockers and asking those readers to allow ads.
How Admiral's anti-adblock recovery works
Admiral described its approach as Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery on September 22, 2026. It combines four routes.
Reinsertion
Acceptable Ads for blockers that take part in that program, and proxy-based delivery for traffic where ads are blocked at the network level.
Server-side protection
Client Protect and Server Protect, aimed at what Admiral calls "aggressive" and "militant" blockers, with an optional proxy through the publisher's own domain.
Alternative value exchange
Subscriptions, ad-free passes, registrations or donations instead of ads.
Admiral adds AI-written messages, automated A/B tests and audience targeting. On Chrome's Manifest V3, an October 2024 post on uBlock Origin Lite invites publishers to measure their ad-block rates with Admiral; Admiral does not publish detection results per uBlock Origin Lite mode.
AntiAdBlock Core takes one route: a notice that asks visitors with a blocker to allow ads on your site, checked again as soon as they do. It detects uBlock Origin Lite in its Basic, Optimal and Complete modes, and the Free plan lets you check that on your own traffic. If you would rather show Acceptable Ads with no message, read ad reinsertion explained or our Blockthrough alternative page.
Where AntiAdBlock Core is stronger
You keep all the ad revenue you recover.
Admiral's recovery fee is 30% of the ad revenue it brings back, so the cost rises as recovery rises. AntiAdBlock Core costs the same flat price whatever you recover, with no setup fee and no commitment: you cancel from the dashboard.
A free plan, not a 7-day window.
Admiral offers a 7-day trial and free ad-block analytics. AntiAdBlock Core's Free plan has no end date: 5,000 detections a month, with the same detection engine as the paid plans, the live dashboard and no payment method.
uBlock Origin Lite and first-party delivery on every plan.
AntiAdBlock Core detects uBlock Origin Lite in its Basic, Optimal and Complete modes, and the script loads from a subdomain of your own domain on every plan, Free included, for maximum detection. The detection engine is multi-signal and maintained daily. You can confirm the results on your own traffic before paying.
When Admiral is the better choice
Admiral is the stronger option when adblock recovery is one part of a wider reader-revenue plan. It covers subscriptions, paywalls, registration walls, email capture and consent from one vendor, offers several recovery routes, and prices recovery on results with a net revenue guarantee. A publisher with an audience team will use that breadth.
- You want paywalls, registration walls, donations, email capture and a Google-approved consent tool from the same vendor.
- You prefer to pay a share of results, backed by Admiral's net revenue guarantee, rather than a fixed monthly fee.
- You want several recovery routes in one place, such as Acceptable Ads, proxy reinsertion and server-side protection.
- You want AI-written messages and automated A/B tests on the recovery notice; AntiAdBlock Core does not offer A/B testing.
Switching from Admiral, one site at a time
Measure first, switch when the numbers match.
Create a free account.
Sign up online with no payment method, add your domain and verify it with a meta tag, a file or a DNS TXT record. One more DNS record serves the script from your own subdomain.
Move one site first.
Remove Admiral's tag from one site and add AntiAdBlock Core's async tag or the WordPress plugin. Keep Admiral running on your other sites while you compare.
Compare, then decide.
After a few weeks, set the dashboard's ad-block rate, detections, recoveries and revenue at stake against that site's Admiral history. Move the rest when the numbers work for you.
Admiral or AntiAdBlock Core? The verdict
Choose Admiral if adblock recovery is one piece of a broader reader-revenue setup with paywalls, email and consent, and you are comfortable paying 30% of the ad revenue it recovers in exchange for its net revenue guarantee. Choose AntiAdBlock Core if you need to detect ad blockers and ask those readers to allow ads, at a flat price you can see before signing up. Once the revenue Admiral recovers for you passes the Business crossing point in the chart above, its share costs more than our Business plan. The Free plan covers 5,000 detections a month with no payment method, so you can measure your own ad-block traffic first.
How we compared
AntiAdBlock Core makes this page, so we are one of the two products compared. We are not affiliated with Admiral. Every Admiral fact comes from its public pages, checked on November 1, 2026, listed below.
We do not score detection rates we cannot measure on the same sites. If something here is out of date, contact us and we will correct it.
Admiral data checked on
- 1Admiral pricing (getadmiral.com/pricing)
- 2Admiral adblock recovery (getadmiral.com/adblock-recovery)
- 3About Admiral (getadmiral.com/about-admiral)
- 4Admiral privacy consent (getadmiral.com/privacy-consent)
- 5IAB TCF CMP list (updated October 29, 2026)
- 6"What is Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery?", Admiral blog, September 22, 2026
- 7"Admiral Protect", Admiral blog, February 11, 2026
- 8"uBlock Origin Lite: Why the Shift to Manifest V3 Means It's Time to Measure Ad Block Rates", Admiral blog, October 8, 2024
- 9Admiral Adblock Analytics plugin on wordpress.org
Other comparisons
Each page compares AntiAdBlock Core with one provider, using public sources with a date.
Blockthrough alternative
Blockthrough monetizes visitors whose blocker allows Acceptable Ads. AntiAdBlock Core asks the others too. Sources, prices and a free plan to start.
Ad-Shield alternative
Revenue-share ad restoration for what Ad-Shield calls dark traffic, or a flat-priced notice you control.
AdRecover (AdPushup) vs AntiAdBlock Core
Who makes AdRecover, how its Acceptable Ads reinsertion works, what AdPushup charges and asks for, and when a flat-priced notice fits better.
Publisher Collective requirements compared
What Publisher Collective asks of publishers in 2026, how AdEngine's adblock recovery works, and a self-serve option with no minimum.
Newor Media requirements compared
Elevate! has no pageview minimum; Catapult and Premier ask for 60,000 and 420,000 US pageviews. See what Newor asks for and what a flat-priced layer adds.
AdSense ad blocking recovery vs AntiAdBlock Core
AdSense's own message, desktop only per Google's help, versus a notice that reaches phones.
AntiAdBlock Core vs BlockAdblock
BlockAdblock's free script, not updated since 2017, versus maintained detection and a Free plan.
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Admiral anti-adblock: frequently asked questions
How much does Admiral charge for anti-adblock recovery?
Admiral's public pricing, checked November 1, 2026, sets adblock recovery at 30% of the ad revenue it recovers, with nothing upfront, free ad-block analytics and what it calls "risk-free 100% guaranteed net revenue". The all-in-one suite starts at $250 a month and there is a 7-day free trial. AntiAdBlock Core runs from a Free plan to $29.99 a month, flat, with no share of recovered revenue. How the two pricing models compare is explained in adblock recovery software.
When does Admiral's 30% cost more than a flat plan?
When the ad revenue it recovers for you passes the plan price divided by 0.30: the chart above marks that point against our Pro, Max and Business plans, and Business covers 5,000,000 detections a month. Below those points the share costs less; above them, every extra $1,000 recovered costs $300 with Admiral and nothing more with a flat plan.
Is there a free alternative to Admiral's anti-adblock?
Yes. AntiAdBlock Core's Free plan detects ad blockers and shows the recovery notice for up to 5,000 detections a month, with no end date and no payment method. Google also offers free ad blocking recovery messages inside AdSense and Ad Manager: see AdSense ad blocking recovery vs AntiAdBlock Core. Admiral itself offers free ad-block analytics and a 7-day trial.
Does Admiral use Acceptable Ads?
Yes, as one of its routes. Admiral lists reinsertion "including Acceptable Ads and Proxy-based recovery" next to its full-stack recovery, which asks visitors to allowlist the site and restores the publisher's own ads. AntiAdBlock Core does not use Acceptable Ads or reinsert ads: it asks visitors with a blocker to allow ads, and your current ad network keeps serving.
Is AntiAdBlock Core part of Admiral?
No. AntiAdBlock Core is not affiliated with Admiral. Both sell anti-adblock tools to publishers, but the products differ: Admiral is a VRM suite with recovery priced as a revenue share, while AntiAdBlock Core is a single detection and recovery script with flat public plans and a Free plan.
Can I switch from Admiral without a gap in recovery?
Yes. With several sites, move one at a time: start AntiAdBlock Core on one site with the Free plan, keep Admiral on the others and compare the numbers over a few weeks. With a single site, swap the tags in one step; setup takes about a minute with the async tag or the WordPress plugin. Try it first on the live demo.
Try it free on your own traffic
No payment method needed. Measure your own ad-block traffic and recovery before paying anything.