Comparison of router software projects
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Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.
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General
| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
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| OpenWrt | Linux | GPL, etc. | 2025-02-06 [1] | 17,042[2] | |
| Commotion Wireless | OpenWrt | 2014-10-13 [3] | 422,643[4] | Abandoned | |
| DD-WRT | Alchemy[5] | 2019-11-09[6] | 27,104[7] | ||
| LEDE | OpenWrt | GPL, etc. | N/a | 72,901[8] | Merged with OpenWrt |
| RutOS | OpenWrt | GPL, etc. | 2025-03-25[9] | 499,954[10] | Operating System for Teltonika networking products |
| LibreCMC | OpenWrt | 2024-12-26[11] | 2,099,9734[12] | ||
| Roofnet | OpenWrt | N/a | N/a | N/a | Abandoned |
| DebWRT | OpenWrt, Debian | 2017-01-02 [13] | 3,585,093[14] | Discontinued | |
| HyperWRT | Linux | GPL | 2005-02-07 | N/a | Abandoned |
| Tomato | HyperWRT | 2025-02-27[15] | 360,330[16] | ||
| Oleg | ASUS Original | GPL | 2008-03-30 | N/a | http://oleg.wl500g.info/ |
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| Project | QoS | Guest AP | VPN client | VPN server | tor | adblock by domain/ip | Mesh | Package manager |
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Devices
Other
| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
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| IPFire | Linux | GPLv3+ | 2025-09-19[20] | N/A | |
| Zeroshell | Linux | 2021-01-16[21] | 466,964[22] | Abandoned[21] | |
| m0n0wall | FreeBSD | 2014-01-15[23] | 439,509[24] | Abandoned[23] | |
| OPNsense | FreeBSD | Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License | 2025-03-11[25] | 152,329[26] | |
| pfsense | FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT | ALv2 | 2023-12-07[27] | 26,342[28] |