Top 5 traffic-shaping Open-Source Projects

3proxy

2 3,559 7.2 C

3proxy - tiny free proxy server
LibreQoS

28 366 9.3 HTML

A Quality of Experience and Smart Queue Management system for ISPs. Leverage CAKE to improve network responsiveness, enforce bandwidth plans, and reduce bufferbloat.

Project mention: LibreQoS – Fast, Flexible QoE for Smart ISPs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-09

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
TrafficToll

2 228 0.0 Python

NetLimiter-like bandwidth limiting and QoS for Linux
sqm-scripts

17 223 3.5 Shell

SQM scripts traffic shaper

Project mention: Looking for Guidance and Advice | /r/HomeNetworking | 2023-05-23

The little ~$150 Celeron mini-PCs with 4 network ports on AliExpress can generally handle routing close to 2.5Gb linespeed - basic routing doesn't take a whole lot of horsepower. Adding in VPN, SQM, and other features like that will take more power though.

NetStalker

1 166 4.0 C#

A network tool to control the bandwidth over your local network.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).