Pangolin
Pangolin is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Web Servers & Reverse Proxies category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok and Tailscale and ships a Docker image. It has 23,224 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 23,224
- Forks
- 808
- Open issues
- 79
- Commits, last 12 months
- 5,856
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.25.3Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Sep 27, 2024
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 5,856 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 5,856 |
| Latest release | 1.25.3 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 99 |
| Open issues | 79 |
| Open pull requests | 41 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Sep 27, 2024 |
Health as of , from the GitHub API. A label describes activity, not quality or security. How we label project health · Report a data error
About Pangolin
Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/fosrl/pangolin.
Topics
- reverse-proxy
- wireguard
- single-sign-on
- self-hosted
- oidc
- vpn
- zero-trust
- zero-trust-network-access
- ztna
- pam
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Comparisons, rankings and guides on the appsgit blog that cover Pangolin.
- Guides
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- Alternatives
Self-hosted Tailscale: Headscale, NetBird and the open-source mesh VPN options
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Is Pangolin free and open source?
Yes. Pangolin is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Pangolin with Docker?
Yes. Pangolin provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Pangolin?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Pangolin include Caddy, Traefik and Nginx Proxy Manager. Pangolin itself is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok and Tailscale.
Is Pangolin actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Pangolin was on Oct 26, 2026 with 5,856 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 1.25.3, published Oct 23, 2026. It had 79 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.