2025-05-07

Wireguard systems: Tailscale / Nebula / Zerotier / innernet#

Lists of alternatives:

Name

License

Org

headscale

BSD-3

two guys

NetBird

BSD-3

NetBird GmbH

Nebula

MIT

Slack

headscale (open source Tailscale)#

juanfont/headscale

https://headscale.net/stable/about/faq/

  • single Tailscale network

  • reverse-engineering Tailscale

NetBird#

netbirdio/netbird

2023 hn sentiment: “buggy”

Nebula#

slackhq/nebula

innernet#

tonarino/innernet

This has not received an independent security audit, and should be considered experimental software at this early point in its lifetime.

ZeroTier#

https://www.zerotier.com/

HN#