rathole
The premium Open Source alternative to Ngrok
🎯 Best for:Developers needing to expose local ports through firewalls with minimal overhead.
What is rathole?
A high-performance reverse proxy designed for NAT traversal and exposing local services to the public internet. It focuses on extreme memory efficiency and high throughput using a secure client-server architecture.
Tech Stack
RustInfrastructure & Cloud
Why rathole?
- • Extremely low binary size
- • Multi-core support via Rust
- • Secure authentication mechanisms
Limitations
- • Requires public VPS for server
- • Configuration via TOML files
- • No built-in web dashboard
3/6/2026
Last Update
701
Forks
116
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Ngrok)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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