AdGuard Home vs LibreSpeed
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted reverse proxy & gateways options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare AdGuard Home with
choose an app… Caddy Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio NPS Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr OAuth2 Proxy CrowdSec CoreDNS cert-manager OpenResty dnscrypt-proxy Tengine MyIP Linkerd FrankenPHP SmartDNS imgproxy Tyk BunkerWeb lego YARP Technitium DNS Server ExternalDNS Tinyauth iodine Fabio Blocky HAProxy dae Tinyproxy NGINX Unit 3proxy Zoraxy WireGuard UI sslh Tor Browser Pomerium go-shadowsocks2 sish Caddy Docker Proxy Emissary-ingress Apache HTTP Server Varnish Cache Kuma Contour relayd go-doxy Coraza WAF Speed Test by OpenSpeedTest™ mosdns Sozu SWAG Skipper Squid Algernon Canary Tokens MySpeed Gateway API Sablier KrakenD Angie Syslog-ng River Static Web Server beelzebub Traefik Mesh gobetween Apache Traffic Server Maza ad blocking frp-panel Adguard Home Sync Træfik Hub Note Caddy-L4 UUSEC WAF OpenResty Manager Pingap Ehco SimpleTorrent g3proxy Unifi-controller ctrld HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Gravitee API Management HAProxy Data Plane API Chromium Duck DNS Traefik Geoblock Cloudflare DDNS Privoxy Wakupator socks5-proxy-server Pound gandi-livedns Urbit Holesail Switchboard Adguard Firefox Lighttpd Remmina Tor Snowflake Proxy Twingate Vinyl Cache
Compare LibreSpeed with
choose an app… Caddy Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio NPS Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr OAuth2 Proxy CrowdSec
Feature AdGuard Home LibreSpeed Category Reverse Proxy & Gateways Reverse Proxy & Gateways License GPL-3.0 free Language TypeScript JavaScript Setup difficulty Easy Easy Min. RAM 128 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, binary docker, one-click GitHub stars ★ 35,977 ★ 15,025 First released 2018 2022 Replaces Pi-hole, NextDNS —
Why pick each one
Choose AdGuard Home if… Released under the GPL-3.0 license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 36k GitHub stars AdGuard Home details Choose LibreSpeed if… Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment One-click install on common self-host platforms Mature project with 15k GitHub stars LibreSpeed details
Frequently asked questions Is AdGuard Home or LibreSpeed better? Neither is universally better. AdGuard Home has the larger community; both share a easy setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are AdGuard Home and LibreSpeed free and open-source? Yes. AdGuard Home is licensed under GPL-3.0 and LibreSpeed under free. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run AdGuard Home and LibreSpeed with Docker? AdGuard Home: yes. LibreSpeed: yes.