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Pangolin

Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).

Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Still maintained? Yes: 1,058 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 1.25.3 (Oct 2026).

Also an alternative to Tailscale.

Docker #5 of 19 in Web Servers

At a glance

Pangolin quick facts

Health score
97/100 GOOD
Stars
23,267
Last commit
yesterday (Oct 2026)
Latest release
1.25.3, Oct 2026
Licence
AGPL-3.0
View fosrl/pangolin on GitHub ↗ Website ↗

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In its own words

The project's README opens: "Pangolin is an open-source SASE platform, built on WireGuard®, with a simple mission: connect and protect your users, wherever they are. It brings networking and security together as one system including a zero-trust VPN, zero-trust reverse proxy, privileged access management, and an identity-aware AI gateway, all sharing one identity and policy model. It's the same idea behind platforms like Cloudflare One, Zscaler, and Prisma but open, self-hostable, and built to stay light and easy to deploy."

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Pangolin scores 97/100, #5 of 19 in Web Servers: 1,058 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.25.3, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 23,267 stars add 17.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 2.5 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity 35.0 / 35

    1058 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 25.0 / 25

    1.25.3 released 7 days ago

  • Stars biggest shortfall 17.5 / 20

    23k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

5630 commits over the last 12 months
1058
Last 90 days
5,630
Last 12 months
yesterday
Last push

Ranked #5 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between Nginx Proxy Manager (#4) and SafeLine (#6) .

Details

LicenceAGPL-3.0
PlatformsDocker
Latest release1.25.3 · 7 days ago
Stars23,267
Open issues78
DockerYes
Repositoryfosrl/pangolin ↗
Visit website ↗ Source code ↗

Pangolin vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Pangolin (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Traefik 99 65k MIT today
NGINX 98 32k BSD-2-Clause yesterday
Pangolin (this tool) 97 23k AGPL-3.0 yesterday
SafeLine 97 23k GPL-3.0 8 days ago
Firezone 96 9.1k Apache-2.0 today
Pomerium 95 5.1k Apache-2.0 today

Pangolin: common questions

What does Pangolin replace?

Repoly lists Pangolin as an open-source alternative to Tailscale. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Pangolin stands against the others.

Is Pangolin still maintained?

Pangolin had 1,058 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 1.25.3, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.