proxychains VS tor

Compare proxychains vs tor and see what are their differences.

proxychains

proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP. (by haad)

tor

unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ -- (by torproject)
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proxychains tor
19 21
6,053 4,309
- 1.2%
7.0 6.0
4 months ago about 2 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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proxychains

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.

tor

Posts with mentions or reviews of tor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxychains and tor you can also consider the following projects:

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

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks

Tor-Bridges-Collector - Collecting Tor Bridges.

Tor - Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.)

shadow - Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux.

nipe - An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

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.

quickjs-rs - Rust wrapper for the quickjs Javascript engine.

impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.

go-libtor - Self-contained Tor from Go