anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, and ZeroTier alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
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UPDATE 2026-09-28: Official policy for adding non-open source/commercial services to the list: you must provide some evidence of existing customers that are happy with your product. Google reviews, 100+ GitHub stars, etc. If you are commercial but primarily B2B, you can also have a reputable business that is a customer send me an email vouching for your product. Decisions will still be case-by-case, but I try to be reasonable. UPDATE 2026-08-10: I did a lot of backlog cleanup over the weekend. I used AI to help with automation and write comments, but I tried to make all the yes/no decisions myself. Some things almost certainly slipped through the cracks. If you feel your issue/PR was closed in error, please comment so I can take a closer look. UPDATE 2026-02-16: Given the sensitive nature of tunneling tools, I'm going to start requiring at least 100 GitHub stars on any new additions.…
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- What is this list for
- The dream
- Recommendations
- Open source (at least with a reasonably permissive license)
- Commercial/Closed source
- Overlay networks and other advanced tools
- Reference
- Discussions
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What this repository does
List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, and ZeroTier alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
Repository facts
- Owner
- anderspitman
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 21,995
- Forks
- 1,071
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1
- License
- Not reported — inspect the license file
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2020-09-16T20:38:27.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-06T01:24:20.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: nebula, ngrok, ngrok-alternative, self-hosted, ssh, tailscale, tailscale-alternative, tunnel-proxy, tunneling, zerotier
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