headscale VS subspace

Compare headscale vs subspace and see what are their differences.

headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)

subspace

A fork of the simple WireGuard VPN server GUI community maintained (by subspacecommunity)
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headscale subspace
221 13
19,446 1,788
- 0.6%
9.2 0.0
7 days ago 3 months ago
Go HTML
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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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.

subspace

Posts with mentions or reviews of subspace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

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

wireguard-tools - Wireguard helper scripts

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. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

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

wireguard-apple - Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

subspace_install_script - Bash install script for subspace wireguard ui in Ubuntu

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