Rathole
Rathole is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Proxy & VPN category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Rust. It is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok and ships a Docker image. It has 14,381 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Aug 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Proxy & VPN
- Rust
- Apache-2.0
- Docker
- Maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 14,381
- Forks
- 846
- Open issues
- 77
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1
- Last commit
- Aug 23, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.5.0Oct 1, 2023
- Created
- Dec 14, 2021
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
MaintainedMaintained: last commit Aug 23, 2026.
| Last commit | Aug 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1 |
| Latest release | v0.5.0 (Oct 1, 2023) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 20 |
| Open issues | 77 |
| Open pull requests | 21 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Dec 14, 2021 |
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About Rathole
Secure, high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal written in Rust.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/rathole-org/rathole.
Topics
- nat
- tunnel
- rust
- network
- firewall
- frp
- http
- proxy
- noise
- noise-protocol
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Is Rathole free and open source?
Yes. Rathole is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 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 Rathole with Docker?
Yes. Rathole 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 Rathole?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Rathole include frp, Headscale and NetBird. Rathole itself is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok.
Is Rathole actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Rathole was on Aug 23, 2026 with 1 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.5.0, published Oct 1, 2023. It had 77 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Maintained" as of Oct 26, 2026.