Squid AlternativesProxy Services and other similar apps like Squid

Squid is described as '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. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator' and is a popular Proxy Service in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Squid for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Squid alternative is Privoxy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Squid are WinGate, Varnish, Polipo and Artica Proxy.

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  1. Privoxy icon

    Privoxy

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    Privoxy is a 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.

    57 Privoxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Privoxy as an Alternative to Squid
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    It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
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    No caching function. Primary usage of squid.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    There is no similarity between the two applications. Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is not.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Privoxy is a great Squid alternative, some don't.

    • Privoxy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Squid.

    • Privoxy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Squid.

    • Privoxy is Free and Open SourceSquid is also Free and Open Source
  2. WinGate icon

    WinGate

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    WinGate Proxy Server is a highly capable integrated Proxy server, firewall and email server designed for access control, security and communications needs. What you do get is all the features of Standard license for 3 concurrent users.

    13 WinGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    Policy Editor
     
  4. Varnish icon

    Varnish

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    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    21 Varnish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Varnish as an Alternative to Squid
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    It is an alternative for the server-side use of squid. It is not suitable for the client-side functionality

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Varnish is a great Squid alternative, some don't.

    • Varnish is Free and Open SourceSquid is also Free and Open Source
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    Polipo

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    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    19 Polipo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    Configuration Page
     
  6. Artica Proxy icon

    Artica Proxy

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    ARTICA Proxy is an enterprise grade security appliance : web filtering (w/o SSL decryption), DNS Filtering, bandwith optimisation, easy ACL management, users authentication on LDAP or Active Directory (NTLM/Kerberos), deployment tools (such as proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    Artica Proxy v4 : Dashboard
     
  7. HandyCache icon

    HandyCache

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    Proxy server for Internet distribution on the local network at home, at school or in a small business. You can also run HC on the same computer you are working on. In this case, you will be able to speed up the loading of pages in your browser, save traffic and money for its...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Proxomitron icon

    Proxomitron

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    For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. TinyProxy icon

    TinyProxy

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    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    28 TinyProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    Apache Traffic Server

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    Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
     
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    Comments about Apache Traffic Server as an Alternative to Squid
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    ATS has an event driven architecture where as Squid runs single-threaded. ATS scales much better than Squid.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Apache Traffic Server is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Squid.

    • Apache Traffic Server is Free and Open SourceSquid is also Free and Open Source
  12. CCProxy icon

    CCProxy

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    Want to share Internet connection? Get every computer online through a single Internet connection? Maximize the efficiency of your Internet access on a limited budget? Look no further! Get CCProxy, a small Internet sharing software!

    7 CCProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    CacheGuard-OS

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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

    135 CacheGuard-OS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular commercial alternative to Squid.

    • CacheGuard-OS is Paid and ProprietarySquid is Free and Open Source
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    3proxy

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    3Proxy tiny free proxy server is really tiny cross-platform (Win32/Win64&Unix) freeware proxy servers set. It includes HTTP proxy with HTTPS and FTP support, SOCKSv4/SOCKSv4.5/SOCKSv5 proxy (socks/socks.exe), POP3 proxy, SMTP proxy, AIM/ICQ proxy (icqpr/icqpr.

    8 3proxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Warning

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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