Comparison of router software projects

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]	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]	Discontinued
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/

Features

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

Devices

Project	Total	x86	ARM	MIPS
OpenWrt	1875+[17]
DD-WRT	many [18]
libreCMC	11 [19]

Other

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]

See also

• Debian
• FreeBSD
• Kali Linux
• Linux kernel
• List of free and open-source software packages
• List of router and firewall distributions
• List of router firmware projects
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• Software
• Tails