ngrok publishes a local service on a public URL through its hosted relay, limiting free users to random hostnames and capped bandwidth. Self-hosted tunnels let you expose dev servers and home services on your own domain with no usage limits.
12 open-source alternatives to ngrok 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 |
ekzhang/bore
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 11,595 | Rust | 9mo |
| 5 |
agrinman/tunnelto
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 7,122 | Rust | 10d |
| 6 |
antoniomika/sish
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 4,813 | Go | 4d |
| 7 |
openziti/zrok
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 4,810 | Go | 12d |
| 8 |
exposedev/expose
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 4,576 | PHP | 1mo |
| 9 |
pgrok/pgrok
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 3,645 | Go | 1d |
| 10 |
amalshaji/portr
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 3,197 | Go | 10d |
| 11 |
anderspitman/SirTunnel
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 1,566 | Python | 2y |
| 12 |
boringproxy/boringproxy
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 1,387 | Go | 2y |