firezone VS headscale

Compare firezone vs headscale and see what are their differences.

firezone

Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable. (by firezone)

headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)
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firezone headscale
74 221
6,186 19,446
2.9% -
9.9 9.2
6 days ago 4 days ago
Elixir Go
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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firezone

Posts with mentions or reviews of firezone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.

headscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of headscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing firezone and headscale you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface

zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

wirehole - WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

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