tailscale VS OpenVPN

Compare tailscale vs OpenVPN and see what are their differences.

tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. (by tailscale)

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)
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tailscale OpenVPN
1,005 81
16,315 9,889
4.8% 2.2%
9.9 9.2
6 days ago 16 days ago
Go C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

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 2024-04-04.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

tinc - a VPN daemon

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

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

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

ocserv

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

openvpn3-linux - OpenVPN 3 Linux client

pivpn - The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi

SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

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

lightway-laser - Lightway Laser is a reference point-to-point Linux client/server implementation for Lightway Core.