OpenVPN VS tailscale

Compare OpenVPN vs tailscale and see what are their differences.

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)

tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. (by tailscale)
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OpenVPN tailscale
81 1004
9,807 15,929
2.5% 4.6%
9.2 9.9
4 days ago 5 days ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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.

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.

tailscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of tailscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.

What are some alternatives?

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

headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

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

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

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

tinc - a VPN daemon

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

pivpn - The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi

ocserv

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

mistborn

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.