SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →
Top 23 Proxy Open-Source Projects
-
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
-
frp
A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
frp is an advanced, feature-rich reverse proxy that supports a variety of protocols and can be self-hosted.
-
-
-
Project mention: VLESS Protocol: How It Bypasses Censorship in Russia and Why It Works | dev.to | 2025-10-29
-
-
mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Project mention: How to audit what your IDE extension actually sends to the cloud | dev.to | 2026-05-22mitmproxy is the gold standard here. It's free, open source, and Python-scriptable.
-
Xray-core
Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core. Where the magic happens. An open platform for various uses.
Project mention: How VLESS Reality Made VPNs Unblockable by Pretending to Be Google | dev.to | 2026-05-04A developer who goes by RPRX on GitHub released a thing called Reality as part of the Xray-core project. And what it does is, instead of trying to look-like-Google in a clever statistical way, it just establishes a real TLS connection to real google.com.
-
one-api
LLM API 管理 & 分发系统，支持 OpenAI、Azure、Anthropic Claude、Google Gemini、DeepSeek、字节豆包、ChatGLM、文心一言、讯飞星火、通义千问、360 智脑、腾讯混元等主流模型，统一 API 适配，可用于 key 管理与二次分发。单可执行文件，提供 Docker 镜像，一键部署，开箱即用。LLM API management & key redistribution system, unifying multiple providers under a single API. Single binary, Docker-ready, with an English UI.
Project mention: DeepSeek V4-Pro Just Got 4x Cheaper. But Here's What Nobody's Talking About | dev.to | 2026-05-23You can set this up with One-API (open source, Docker-friendly):
-
Project mention: VLESS Protocol: How It Bypasses Censorship in Russia and Why It Works | dev.to | 2025-10-29
VLESS Protocol Specification: https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core
-
-
Nginx Proxy Manager
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
Project mention: How I replaced paid hosting with a €100 home server (and saved hundreds) | dev.to | 2026-03-25• Nginx Proxy Manager → nginxproxymanager.com
-
hiddify-app
Multi-platform auto-proxy client, supporting Sing-box, X-ray, TUIC, Hysteria, Reality, Trojan, SSH etc. It’s an open-source, secure and ad-free.
Project mention: How VLESS Reality Made VPNs Unblockable by Pretending to Be Google | dev.to | 2026-05-04Hiddify — user-friendly client supporting Reality
-
Stars: 14.8k | Language: Python GitHub: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik
-
Project mention: Hysteria: A QUIC-Based Proxy Designed to Resist Censorship | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13
-
-
Project mention: Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-15
-
bettercap
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
-
websocketd
Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.
-
Project mention: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-01
-
Project mention: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-28
Agreed, the best tools for circumventing The Great Firewall of China are Chinese developers. https://github.com/txthinking/brook comes to mind..
-
Project mention: I Built a Self-Hosted RSS Reader with AI Summarization, Translation, and an MCP Server | dev.to | 2026-03-16
For sites requiring JavaScript rendering, FlareSolverr (Headless Chrome) handles it.
-
rathole
A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.
You can use port-forwarded UDP, or TCP (e.g., DoH, or DoT) dnsproxy ports instead of local process to escape network restrictions (e.g., using rathole)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Proxy discussion
Proxy related posts
-
Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser
-
AWS Just Made Its MCP Server Generally Available. Here's What It Actually Gives AI Agents.
-
DeepSeek V4-Pro Just Got 4x Cheaper. But Here's What Nobody's Talking About
-
Sōzune – a reverse proxy built on Sōzu, with Traefik-style autodiscovery
-
Hysteria: A QUIC-Based Proxy Designed to Resist Censorship
-
Show HN: Feeding agents with session recording data
-
Show HN: We're using LLMs to classify risk before execution in prod
-
A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 7 Jun 2026
Index
What are some of the best open-source Proxy projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | v2rayN | 107,869 |
| 2 | frp | 107,127 |
| 3 | shadowsocks-windows | 59,280 |
| 4 | v2rayNG | 57,470 |
| 5 | v2ray-core | 46,850 |
| 6 | fanqiang | 45,880 |
| 7 | mitmproxy | 43,808 |
| 8 | Xray-core | 39,269 |
| 9 | one-api | 34,621 |
| 10 | v2ray-core | 34,075 |
| 11 | XX-Net | 33,449 |
| 12 | Nginx Proxy Manager | 33,126 |
| 13 | hiddify-app | 29,299 |
| 14 | authentik | 21,844 |
| 15 | hysteria | 21,648 |
| 16 | NekoBoxForAndroid | 21,195 |
| 17 | pangolin | 21,006 |
| 18 | bettercap | 19,385 |
| 19 | websocketd | 17,457 |
| 20 | Jackett | 15,510 |
| 21 | brook | 15,126 |
| 22 | FlareSolverr | 14,159 |
| 23 | rathole | 13,707 |
Sponsored
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com