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	GPL, etc.	2023-05-01 [1]	17,042[2]
Commotion Wireless	OpenWrt		2014-10-13 [3]	422,643[4]
DD-WRT	OpenWrt		2019-11-09[5]	27,104[6]
LEDE	OpenWrt	GPL, etc.	N/A	72,901[7]	Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS	OpenWrt	GPL, etc.	2020-01-15[8]	499,954[9]	Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC	OpenWrt		2018-04-02[10]	2,099,9734[11]
Roofnet	OpenWrt	N/A	N/A	N/A	Abandoned
DebWRT	OpenWrt, Debian		2017-01-02 [12]	3,585,093[13]
HyperWRT	Linux	GPL	2005-02-07	N/A	Abandoned
Tomato	HyperWRT		2021-03-17 [14]	360,330[15]
Oleg	ASUS Original	GPL	2008-03-30	N/A	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	499 [16]	x	x	x
DD-WRT	many [17]	x	x
libreCMC	11 [18]

Other

Project	Parent project	Software license	Latest release	Alexa rank	About
Zeroshell	Linux		2018-01-02 [19]	466,964[20]	for SBCs raspberry / orange pi
m0n0wall	FreeBSD		2014-01-15	439,509[21]	Abandoned
OPNsense	FreeBSD	Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License	2024-01-30[22]	152,329[23]
pfsense	FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT	ALv2	2023-11-16[24]	26,342[25]

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

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. "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
6. dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
7. lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
8. "RutOS". wiki.teltonika-networks.com.
9. teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
10. project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org.
11. librecmc.org^{[permanent dead link‍]} at Alexa
12. "debwrt rootfs download".
13. debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
14. "2021-freshtomato.org>downloads>freshtomato-mips>2021". freshtomato.org.
15. polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
16. openwrt devices
17. "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
18. libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
19. "zeroshell download".
20. zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
21. m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
22. "24.1 "Savvy Shark" Series — OPNsense documentation". opnsense.org.
23. opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
24. "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
25. pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa