Comparison of router software projects

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

Embedded

General

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
OpenWrt Linux / Linksys GPL, etc. 2025-02-06 17,042
Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 422,643 Abandoned
DD-WRT Sveasoft Alchemy 2019-11-09 27,104
LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. N/a 72,901 Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2025-03-25 499,954 Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2024-12-26 2,099,9734
Roofnet OpenWrt N/a N/a N/a Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt / Debian 2017-01-02 3,585,093 Discontinued
HyperWRT Linksys GPL 2005-02-07 N/a Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2025-02-27 360,330
Oleg ASUSTeK GPL 2008-03-30 N/a http://oleg.wl500g.info/

Features

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

Project Total x86 ARM MIPS
OpenWrt 1875+ Yes Yes Yes
DD-WRT many Yes Yes
libreCMC 11

Other

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
  2. ↑ openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  3. ↑ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
  4. ↑ commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  5. ↑ "What is DD-WRT - DD-WRT Wiki". 2024-08-09. Archived from the original on 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  6. ↑ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
  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. ↑ "Teltonika Networks - LTE Routers, Gateways & Modems for IoT". teltonika-networks.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  10. ↑ teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  11. ↑ "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  12. ↑ librecmc.org at Alexa
  13. ↑ "debwrt rootfs download".
  14. ↑ debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  15. ↑ "Index of /downloads/". freshtomato.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  16. ↑ polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  17. ↑ "[OpenWrt Wiki] Table of Hardware". openwrt.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  18. ↑ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
  19. ↑ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
  20. ↑ "IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 197 released". Retrieved 2025-10-16.
  21. 1 2 DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Zeroshell". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 2025-01-25. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  22. ↑ zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  23. 1 2 "m0n0wall - End of the m0n0wall project". m0n0.ch. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  24. ↑ m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  25. ↑ "25.1 "Ultimate Unicorn" Series — OPNsense documentation". docs.opnsense.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  26. ↑ opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  27. ↑ "Versions of pfSense software and FreeBSD | pfSense Documentation". docs.netgate.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  28. ↑ pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa