Comparison of router software projects

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Template:SHORTDESC: Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.

Embedded

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General

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Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
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. 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 Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [13] 3,585,093[14] Discontinued
HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2025-02-27[15] 360,330[16]
Oleg ASUS Original GPL 2008-03-30 http://oleg.wl500g.info/

Features

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Project QoS Guest AP VPN client VPN server tor adblock by domain/ip Mesh Package manager
OpenWrt Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Opkg (3500)
DebWRT Dpkg (23168?)
FreshTomato Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes -

Devices

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Project Total x86 ARM MIPS
OpenWrt 1875+[17] Yes Yes Yes
DD-WRT many [18] Yes Yes
libreCMC 11 [19]

Other

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Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
IPFire Linux GPLv3+ 2025-09-19[20] N/A
Zeroshell Linux 2021-01-16[20] 466,964[21] Abandoned[20]
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15[22] 439,509[23] Abandoned[22]
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2025-03-11[24] 152,329[25]
pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-12-07[26] 26,342[27]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  3. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  4. ^ commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  8. ^ lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  9. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  10. ^ teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  11. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  12. ^ librecmc.org at Alexa
  13. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  14. ^ debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  15. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  16. ^ polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  17. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  18. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  19. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  20. ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Cite error: The named reference ":0" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  21. ^ zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  22. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  23. ^ m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  24. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  25. ^ opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  26. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  27. ^ pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa