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Similar projects and alternatives to ZeroTier
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rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
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supabase
The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
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rustdesk
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
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Netmaker
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
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playit-minecraft-plugin
A Minecraft plugin to make your server public without port forwarding using playit.gg
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netbird
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
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awesome-tunneling
List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, and ZeroTier alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
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frp
A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
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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.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better ZeroTier alternative or higher similarity.
ZeroTier discussion
ZeroTier reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZeroTier.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-15.
- ZeroTier Licensing Changes (2025)
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Top Open Source Tailscale Alternatives in 2025: A Developer’s Guide to Secure Mesh Networking
git clone https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne.git cd ZeroTierOne make
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The Cheapest NAS
Tailscale uses Go https://tailscale.com/security#tailscale-is-written-in-go which might explain the larger sizes.
A cursory look through https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne shows more C++ and some Rust. Not sure how much static linking is involved here.
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
ZeroTier - Layer 2 overlay network. They take decentralization seriously, and like to say "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works." Written in C++.
- Compiling zerotier-cli on Linux Mint 21
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Is there a way to bind ZeroTier with the Android Blue Iris app?
EDIT - I'm tired and cross-eyed after a bunch of internet searching and rabbit holes... A supposed ZeroTier dev said on April 25, 2023 that this would be addressed in a future release of the app in this thread: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/1952. On August 10th, another engineer said that they are waiting for a car to be delivered.
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ZeroTier-GTK development help
Solution 2: Wait for support from Zerotier-One with DBUS
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Gravitational Teleport alternatives - netbird, ZeroTier, and awl
4 projects | 29 Jun 2023
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
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Self-Hosted Mesh Network / VPN For User-Friendly LAN Gaming Network?
https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne (11.5k stars)
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Setup a Local Wifi Lan
If you just want to connect between your devices, you don't need any hardware. Just install zerotier on them.
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 12 Jun 2026
Stats
Basic ZeroTier repo stats
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16,837
8.8
about 6 hours ago
zerotier/ZeroTierOne is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of ZeroTier is C++.
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