SoftEther VS OpenVPN

Compare SoftEther vs OpenVPN and see what are their differences.

SoftEther

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable. (by SoftEtherVPN)

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)
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SoftEther OpenVPN
3 81
10,990 9,807
1.4% 2.5%
8.0 9.2
2 days ago 4 days ago
C C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SoftEther

Posts with mentions or reviews of SoftEther. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SoftEther yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

OpenVPN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenVPN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SoftEther and OpenVPN you can also consider the following projects:

tinc - a VPN daemon

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

ocserv

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

openvpn3-linux - OpenVPN 3 Linux client

ovpn-admin - Simple web UI to manage OpenVPN users.

lightway-laser - Lightway Laser is a reference point-to-point Linux client/server implementation for Lightway Core.

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.