Best Free Reverse Proxy & Gateways for self-hosting

The 107 best Free reverse proxy & gateways you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
Caddy≈5-minute setupEasy64 MBApache-2.077,932
TraefikUnder-an-hour setupMedium128 MBMIT65,200
Pi-hole≈5-minute setupMedium512 MBEUPL-1.261,266
acme.shRead-the-docs projectEasy32 MBGPL-3.047,812
mitmproxyUnder-an-hour setupEasy256 MBMIT45,545
AdGuard Home≈5-minute setupEasy128 MBGPL-3.037,403
Nginx Proxy Manager≈5-minute setupEasy256 MBMIT34,397
NPSUnder-an-hour setupMedium64 MBGPL-3.034,244
NginxUnder-an-hour setupMedium64 MBBSD-2-Clause31,884
EnvoyUnder-an-hour setupHard512 MBApache-2.029,073

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Free within the reverse proxy & gateways category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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