sing-box VS clash

Compare sing-box vs clash and see what are their differences.

clash

A rule-based tunnel in Go. (by Dreamacro)
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sing-box clash
6 16
13,658 48,030
11.5% -
9.7 8.4
8 days ago 6 months ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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sing-box

Posts with mentions or reviews of sing-box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-01.

clash

Posts with mentions or reviews of clash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
  • Clash, used to break China's Great Fire Wall, is deleted in GitHub
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
    being one of the developers of the Clash core (https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash) and its closed-source (free of charge) premium version (clash-premium), i'm really heartbroken seeing this - everything is tearing down.

    even without the context of being in China or Iran, Clash is still an awesome piece of software that can be used everywhere, with proper understanding of computer networking.

    i ain't sure if both Dreamacro and Fndroid are physically safe now, but i'm sure they are both physically in mainland China.

  • V2ray vs Shadowsocks, which one should I host?
    6 projects | /r/dumbclub | 14 Mar 2023
  • New community repo plugin: clash
    1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 29 Dec 2022
  • Lichee Pi 4A
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2022
  • (Learning) Configuring default gateway/"routing to internet"
    1 project | /r/openwrt | 20 Dec 2022
    Now, I have been meaning to set up a Clash proxy to set my whole network to use ProtonVPN (via Wireguard) and possibly add other nicities to it such as Tor and I2P access, simply because it supports it and ... well, I can. :)
  • It is Richard Stallmans orders!
    1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 12 Dec 2022
    I feel you man. But check this out. It's a proxy server provider that i used before, they provide two Taiwan proxy servers for free and set up all the protocols for you. It's so much easier than setting up things on your own server by yourself. It's pretty stable as my experience. And you need a proxy client to use it, I recommend clash. Basically you just install clash and download profiles on the provider's website. Then you run clash -f path_to_your_profile, and set environment variable http_proxy and https_proxy to the port that clash is listening to. Usually it's 7890, so you set environment variables http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890 and https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890 for example and all done. It won't take too much time to set it up, but you need to do some translation work to that website, it's Chinese because who else in this world need to use this thing anyway.
  • Guide on setting up Clash on my VPS
    1 project | /r/dumbclub | 9 Dec 2022
    Hi, unlike X-ray panel which has a very straightforward procedure to set it up and running on VPS, there is absolutely no guide on how to set up clash, I'm kindly asking is anyone here is knowledgeable about running clash step by step.
  • Clash: Transparent Proxy on OpenWRT?
    1 project | /r/dumbclub | 29 Nov 2022
    So, for reference if someone comes across this and doesnt know which Clash we mean: https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash
  • VPN for China
    1 project | /r/China | 1 Nov 2022
    can also consider the Clash
  • Clash – A rule-based tunnel in Go
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sing-box and clash you can also consider the following projects:

nekoray - Qt based cross-platform GUI proxy configuration manager (backend: v2ray / sing-box)

trojan-go - Go实现的Trojan代理,支持多路复用/路由功能/CDN中转/Shadowsocks混淆插件,多平台,无依赖。A Trojan proxy written in Go. An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW. https://p4gefau1t.github.io/trojan-go/

Clash.Meta - A rule-based tunnel in Go.

chisel - A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP

Xray-core - Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core, with XTLS support. Fully compatible configuration.

grule-rule-engine - Rule engine implementation in Golang

hysteria - Hysteria is a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.

Xray-examples - Some examples of uses for Xray-core.

homeproxy - The modern ImmortalWrt proxy platform for ARM64/AMD64 (powered by sing-box)

v2ray-core - A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions.

Stowaway - 👻Stowaway -- Multi-hop Proxy Tool for pentesters