bore vs NPS
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted apps from related categories
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare bore with
choose an app… RustDesk frp Headscale Sunshine Tailscale JumpServer Algo VPN NetBird WG-Easy localtunnel Chisel rathole GOST zrok expose pgrok tunnelmole frp-panel boringproxy gTunnel RPort
Compare NPS with
choose an app… frp Caddy Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik localtunnel SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Chisel Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr LibreSpeed OAuth2 Proxy CrowdSec CoreDNS cert-manager rathole OpenResty dnscrypt-proxy Tengine MyIP Linkerd FrankenPHP SmartDNS imgproxy Tyk BunkerWeb lego YARP Technitium DNS Server ExternalDNS Tinyauth iodine Fabio GOST Blocky HAProxy dae Tinyproxy NGINX Unit 3proxy Zoraxy WireGuard UI sslh Tor Browser Pomerium go-shadowsocks2 sish zrok Caddy Docker Proxy expose Emissary-ingress Apache HTTP Server Varnish Cache Kuma Contour relayd go-doxy Coraza WAF Speed Test by OpenSpeedTest™ mosdns Sozu SWAG pgrok Skipper Squid Algernon Canary Tokens MySpeed Gateway API Sablier KrakenD Angie Syslog-ng River Static Web Server beelzebub Traefik Mesh gobetween Apache Traffic Server tunnelmole Maza ad blocking frp-panel Adguard Home Sync Træfik Hub Note Caddy-L4 UUSEC WAF OpenResty Manager boringproxy Pingap Ehco SimpleTorrent g3proxy Unifi-controller ctrld HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Gravitee API Management HAProxy Data Plane API Chromium Duck DNS Traefik Geoblock gTunnel Cloudflare DDNS Privoxy Wakupator socks5-proxy-server Pound gandi-livedns Urbit RPort Holesail Switchboard Adguard Firefox Lighttpd Remmina Tor Snowflake Proxy Twingate Vinyl Cache
Feature bore NPS Category Remote Access & VPN Reverse Proxy & Gateways License MIT GPL-3.0 Language Rust Go Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 64 MB 64 MB Deployment binary, docker docker, binary GitHub stars ★ 11,363 ★ 34,157 First released 2022 2019 Replaces ngrok ngrok
Why pick each one
Choose bore if… Released under the MIT license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 11.4k GitHub stars bore details Choose NPS if… Released under the GPL-3.0 license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 34.2k GitHub stars Written in Go NPS details
Frequently asked questions Is bore or NPS better? Neither is universally better. NPS has the larger community, while bore is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are bore and NPS free and open-source? Yes. bore is licensed under MIT and NPS under GPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run bore and NPS with Docker? bore: yes. NPS: yes.