Cloudflare Tunnel exposes internal services to the internet through Cloudflare's network without opening inbound ports. If you would rather not route all traffic through, and be bound to, one provider, self-hosted tunnels and reverse proxies do the same job from a VPS you control.
8 open-source alternatives to Cloudflare Tunnel you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
fatedier/frp
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 110,545 | Go | 1d |
| 2 |
jpillora/chisel
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 16,763 | Go | 1mo |
| 3 |
rathole-org/rathole
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 14,445 | Rust | 2mo |
| 4 |
erebe/wstunnel
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 7,185 | Rust | 23d |
| 5 |
pomerium/pomerium
|
Web Servers | 5,100 | Go | today |
| 6 |
openziti/zrok
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 4,810 | Go | 12d |
| 7 |
boringproxy/boringproxy
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 1,387 | Go | 2y |
| 8 |
ao-space/gt
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 142 | Go | 2y |