Caddy vs NPS
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 Caddy with
choose an app… Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr LibreSpeed 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 NPS with
choose an app… frp 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 bore 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 Caddy NPS Category Reverse Proxy & Gateways Reverse Proxy & Gateways License Apache-2.0 GPL-3.0 Language Go Go Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 64 MB 64 MB Deployment docker, binary, bare-metal docker, binary GitHub stars ★ 74,748 ★ 34,157 First released 2015 2019 Replaces Nginx, Apache ngrok
Why pick each one
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 Caddy or NPS better? Caddy is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler easy setup. Consider NPS if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Caddy and NPS free and open-source? Yes. Caddy is licensed under Apache-2.0 and NPS under GPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Caddy and NPS with Docker? Caddy: yes. NPS: yes.