Alternatives to iodine

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Last updated: October 8, 2026

About iodine

IPv4 over DNS tunnel solution, enabling you to start up a socks5 proxy listener.

Open source · ISC

Self-hostable

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imgproxy
Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images.
Open source
Self-hostable
Outline Server
A proxy server that runs a Shadowsocks instance for each access key and a REST API to manage the access keys.
Open source
Self-hostable
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Privoxy
Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
Open source
Self-hostable
sish
HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP tunnels to localhost using only SSH (serveo/ngrok alternative).
Open source
Self-hostable
socks5-proxy-server
SOCKS5 proxy server with built-in authentication and Telegram-bot for user management and user statistics on data spent (handy when you pay per GB of data). It is dockerised and simple to install.
Open source
Self-hostable
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Squid
Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.
Open source
Self-hostable