NordVPN is a commercial VPN subscription that routes your traffic through shared servers you have to trust. Running your own WireGuard or OpenVPN server gives you a private tunnel to your home or VPS, without a third party logging your connections.
7 open-source alternatives to NordVPN you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OpenVPN/openvpn
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 14,804 | C | today |
| 2 |
SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 13,732 | C | 6d |
| 3 |
pivpn/pivpn
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 8,071 | Shell | 2mo |
| 4 |
OutlineFoundation/outline-server
|
Reverse Proxies & Tunnels | 6,255 | TypeScript | 14d |
| 5 |
strongswan/strongswan
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 3,053 | C | today |
| 6 |
dockovpn/dockovpn
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 1,429 | Shell | 2y |
| 7 |
WeeJeWel/wg-easy
archived
|
VPN & Mesh Networks | 875 | HTML | 2y |