Software: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
OpenWrt Linux GPL, etc. 2025-02-06 [1] 0017042 17,042

[2]

Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 [3] 0422643 422,643

[4]

Abandoned
DD-WRT Alchemy[5] 2019-11-09[6] 0027104 27,104

[7]

LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. N/A 0072901 72,901

[8]

Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2025-03-25[9] 0499954 499,954

[10]

Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2024-12-26[11] 2099973 2,099,9734

[12]

Roofnet OpenWrt N/A N/A N/A Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [13] 3585093 3,585,093

[14]

Discontinued
HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 N/A Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2025-02-27[15] 0360330 360,330

[16]

Oleg ASUS Original 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+[17] Yes Yes Yes
DD-WRT many [18] Yes Yes
libreCMC 11 [19]

Other

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] 0466964 466,964

[21]

Abandoned[20]
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15[22] 0439509 439,509

[23]

Abandoned[22]
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2025-03-11[24] 0152329 152,329

[25]

pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-12-07[26] 0026342 26,342

[27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "OpenWrt website". https://www.openwrt.org/. 
  2. ↑ openwrt.org at Alexa
  3. ↑ "Download Commotion Router". https://www.commotionwireless.net/download/routers/. 
  4. ↑ commotionwireless.net at Alexa
  5. ↑ "What is DD-WRT - DD-WRT Wiki". 2024-08-09. https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT. 
  6. ↑ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". https://dd-wrt.com/support/other-downloads/. 
  7. ↑ dd-wrt.com at Alexa
  8. ↑ lede-project.org at Alexa
  9. ↑ "Teltonika Networks - LTE Routers, Gateways & Modems for IoT" (in en). https://teltonika-networks.com/newsroom. 
  10. ↑ teltonika-networks.com at Alexa
  11. ↑ "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre distro."]. https://librecmc.org/librecmc/downloads/snapshots/archive/. 
  12. ↑ librecmc.org at Alexa
  13. ↑ "debwrt rootfs download". http://downloads.debwrt.net/rootfs/snapshots/mips/stretch/. 
  14. ↑ debwrt.net at Alexa
  15. ↑ "Index of /downloads/". https://freshtomato.org/downloads/. 
  16. ↑ polarcloud.com at Alexa
  17. ↑ "[OpenWrt Wiki Table of Hardware"]. https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.supportedcurrentrel=23.05%7C24.10. 
  18. ↑ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices. 
  19. ↑ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.4/docs/Supported_Hardware.md. 
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 "IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 197 released". https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-197-released.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
  21. ↑ zeroshell.org at Alexa
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "m0n0wall - End of the m0n0wall project". https://m0n0.ch/wall/end_announcement.php. 
  23. ↑ m0n0.ch at Alexa
  24. ↑ "25.1 "Ultimate Unicorn" Series — OPNsense documentation". https://docs.opnsense.org/releases/CE_25.1.html. 
  25. ↑ opnsense.org at Alexa
  26. ↑ "Versions of pfSense software and FreeBSD | pfSense Documentation". https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/versions.html. 
  27. ↑ pfsense.org at Alexa



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