NPS vs Twingate
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 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 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 Vinyl Cache
Compare Twingate with
choose an app… Caddy Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home Nginx Proxy Manager
Feature NPS Twingate Category Reverse Proxy & Gateways Reverse Proxy & Gateways License GPL-3.0 free Language Go Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 64 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, binary docker, one-click GitHub stars ★ 34,157 — First released 2019 2022 Replaces 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 Choose Twingate if… Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment One-click install on common self-host platforms Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM Twingate details
Frequently asked questions Is NPS or Twingate better? Neither is universally better. NPS has the larger community, while Twingate is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are NPS and Twingate free and open-source? Yes. NPS is licensed under GPL-3.0 and Twingate under free. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run NPS and Twingate with Docker? NPS: yes. Twingate: yes.