3proxy VS proxychains-ng

Compare 3proxy vs proxychains-ng and see what are their differences.

proxychains-ng

proxychains ng (new generation) - a preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies. continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project. the sf.net page is currently not updated, use releases from github release page instead. (by rofl0r)
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3proxy proxychains-ng
2 7
3,533 9,434
2.2% -
7.2 5.0
about 1 month ago 13 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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3proxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of 3proxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-12.

proxychains-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing 3proxy and proxychains-ng you can also consider the following projects:

docker-openvpn-client - OpenVPN client with killswitch and proxy servers; built on Alpine

sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

preload - preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time.

microsocks - tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage

go-socks - SOCKS4, SOCKS4a and SOCKS5 proxy server in Go

torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

Jool - SIIT and NAT64 for Linux

bhook - :fire: ByteHook is an Android PLT hook library which supports armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86 and x86_64.

mubeng - An incredibly fast proxy checker & IP rotator with ease.

ts-warp - Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper