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24 alternatives to Pingoo – A reverse proxy with built-in WAF and bot protection (in Rust)

The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and much more - https://pingoo.io - pingooio/pingoo

Pingoo is a reverse proxy written in Rust that includes a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and bot protection capabilities. It is designed for developers and system administrators who need to secure and manage incoming… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Pinggy▲282

   Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary

   2024 · pinggy.io · its alternatives →

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   IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs▲363

   Hey all, wanted to share my recent weekend hack project. I wanted to improve upon the existing space for looking up information about IP addresses and ASNs. The backend is written in Rust and pulls BGP data every 8 hours from the RIPE RIS project to build up a routing table and also adds geolocation information. The frontend is using React and Tailwind. Would love any feedback or suggestions on what to improve.

   2023 · ip.guide · its alternatives →

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   dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go▲75

   A DNS client in Go that supports Google DNS over HTTPS - pforemski/dingo

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download▲101

   Pinggy is the simplest way to bring your localhost projects online. It the the fastest way to create secure tunnels to localhost with a public url.

   2023 · pinggy.io · its alternatives →

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   tunnelto.dev▲186

   Expose localhost to the internet with a public URL

   2020 · tunnelto.dev · its alternatives →

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   Broxy – An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go▲106

   An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go. Contribute to rhaidiz/broxy development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams▲172

   Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet - amalshaji/portr

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pinggy App▲145

   Easiest way to share your websites and apps from localhost!

   2024 · pinggy.io · its alternatives →

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   PingPing▲168

   A simple tool to monitor your website and SSL

   2018 · pingping.io · its alternatives →

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    gniP▲257

    Reverse Ping - Pingdom/Cronitor alternative, quick & easy

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust▲78

    A bittorrent client in Rust. Contribute to ikatson/rqbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)▲100

    Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL

    2020 · tunnelto.dev · its alternatives →

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    Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine▲22

    Hi HN, I’ve been working on Shibuya, a next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) built from the ground up in Rust. I wanted to build a WAF that didn't just rely on legacy regex signatures but could understand intent and perform at line-rate using modern kernel features. What makes Shibuya different: Multi-Layer Pipeline: It integrates a high-performance proxy (built on Pingora) with rate limiting, bot detection, and threat intelligence. eBPF Kernel Filtering: For volumetric attacks, Shibuya can drop malicious packets at the kernel level using XDP before they consume userspace resources.…

    Feb 2026 · ghostklan.com · its alternatives →

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    Fanout – Reverse proxy to push real-time data to connected devices▲84

    Deliver real-time data and low-latency WebSockets & pub/sub at the edge with Fastly. Scale chat, IoT, live apps and messaging with a self-managed infrastructure.

    2017 · fanout.io · its alternatives →

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    Sentinel – a Pingora-based reverse proxy (inspired by River)▲8

    I’d been watching River (Pingora-based) and hoping it would mature, because I think Rust + Pingora (from Cloudflare) is a really solid foundation for a future-proof reverse proxy. Progress stayed quiet, so I started building the “practical reverse proxy layer” on top of Pingora myself: config/routing + operational defaults + a way to plug in extra request/response logic without patching the core. Sentinel: https://github.com/raskell-io/sentinel River: https://github.com/memorysafety/river Quick try: curl -fsSL…

    Feb 2026 · sentinel.raskell.io · its alternatives →

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    Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114

    Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.

    2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

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    Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers▲133

    🎥 Proxy livestreams from websockets to external RTMP endpoints. - chuabingquan/pxy

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)▲120

    🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF) - bunkerity/bunkerweb

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source access logs analytics script to block bot attacks▲37

    This is a small PoC Python project for web server access logs analyzing to classify and dynamically block bad bots, such as L7 (application-level) DDoS bots, web scrappers and so on. We'll be happy to gather initial feedback on usability and features, especialy from people having good or bad experience wit bots. *Requirements* The analyzer relies on 3 Tempesta FW specific features which you still can get with other HTTP servers or accelerators: 1. JA5 client fingerprinting (https://tempesta-tech.com/knowledge-base/Traffic-Filtering-b...). This is a HTTP and TLS layers…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust▲85

    A CLI development tool for WebSocket APIs. Contribute to eliihen/wsta development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust▲95

    I've just released an early version off my project I've been working on for a few months now and would love some feedback. https://github.com/fourlexboehm/faasta I was surprised there isn't yet an open/source and standards compliant way to host wasi-http functions in a way that takes advantages of WASM, a multi tenanted application. If you're not familiar with wasi, Compared to something like AWS Lambda, this approach is much more efficient as a single process can serve 1000s of function invocations concurrently and asynchronously, instead requiring an entire VM.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BunkerWeb▲6

    Fool attackers and protect your web services with BunkerWeb, the open-source and next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF).

    Jan 2026 · bunkerweb.io · its alternatives →

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    Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in Go▲78

    I'm working at Sauce Labs on a fast MITM proxy. If you are using mitmproxy, Fiddler or Charles proxy in your job I believe you'll find it invaluable. Forwarder 1.1 is now available, complete with a Grafana Dashboard for effortless monitoring. We are committed to making it great. I welcome your feedback. Cheers Michał

    2023 · forwarder-proxy.io · its alternatives →

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    SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications▲71

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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