Tinyproxy
Light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.
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Still maintained? Yes: 12 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 1.11.3 (Mar 2026).
At a glance
Tinyproxy quick facts
- Health score
- 61/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 6,042
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.11.3, Mar 2026
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/SSL proxy daemon released under the GNU General Public License. Tinyproxy is very useful in a small network setting, where a larger proxy would either be too resource intensive, or a security risk. One of the key features of Tinyproxy is the buffering connection concept. In effect, Tinyproxy will buffer a high speed response from a server, and then relay it to a client at the highest speed the client will accept."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Tinyproxy scores 61/100, #5 of 9 in Proxy: 12 commits in the last 90 days earn 14.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.11.3, 8 months ago) earns 22.3 of 25, 6,042 stars add 15.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 21.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 14.0 / 35
12 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 22.3 / 25
1.11.3 released 8 months ago
- Stars 15.1 / 20
6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 12
- Last 90 days
- 29
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 9 tools in Proxy by health , between g3proxy (#4) and socks5-proxy-server (#6) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | C, deb |
| Latest release | 1.11.3 · 8 months ago |
| Stars | 6,042 |
| Open issues | 118 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | tinyproxy/tinyproxy ↗ |
Tinyproxy vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Tinyproxy (Proxy), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sish | 94 | 4.8k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| GitProxy | 90 | 262 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| g3proxy | 77 | 893 | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| Tinyproxy (this tool) | 61 | 6k | GPL-2.0 | 1 month ago |
| socks5-proxy-server | 46 | 145 | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| Outline Server | 41 | 6.3k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
Tinyproxy: common questions
Is Tinyproxy still maintained?
Tinyproxy had 12 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, 1.11.3, is from 8 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.