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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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]
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/
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Features

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

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

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Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
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]
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