Squid Alternatives

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 WinGate, which is free. Other great apps like Squid are Privoxy, Varnish, Artica Proxy and HandyCache.

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Squid alternatives page was last updated Sep 14, 2024
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  1. 3proxy icon

    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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Warning

    This site has a poor reputation on WOT. You can see the comments on http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/3proxy.ru#page-3

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  2. Proximodo icon

    Proximodo

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    Proximodo is a loopback proxy server, seemingly a fork of proxomitron though likely abandonware. Unlike Proxomitron its developer is not existentially challenged. Additionally Proximodo can use Proxomitron filters. Unfortunately it does not support SSL connections.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Proximodo screenshot 1

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  4. Privaxy icon

    Privaxy

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    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Privaxy screenshot 1

    Privaxy Features

    1.  HTTP Proxy

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  5. nuster

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    nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy. It is 100% compatible with HAProxy, and takes full advantage of the ACL functionality of HAProxy to provide fine-grained caching policy based on the content of request, response...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    nuster Features

    1.  Load balancing
    2.  REST API

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    discrimiNAT

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    A proxy-less solution to being unable to specify hostnames in Google Cloud Firewall Rules and AWS Security Groups. It works by monitoring and blocking traffic transparently as a high-availability NAT instance on the egress of your VPC network.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    Detection of older TLS versions such as SSLv3.

    discrimiNAT Features

    1.  Google Cloud
    2.  Dns

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    SquidMan

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    SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.

    7 SquidMan alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    SquidMan screenshot 1

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  9. ExaProxy

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    ExaProxy is a a high-performance non-caching proxy. It is able to filter HTTP traffic using third party scripts in your favorite programming language.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    ExaProxy Features

    1.  HTTP Proxy

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    hBlock

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    hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Block Trackers
    2.  Ad-free

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  11. GlimmerBlocker icon

    GlimmerBlocker

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    The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Safari
    GlimmerBlocker screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.6.6, released in September 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    GlimmerBlocker Features

    1.  Safari extension
    2.  System Proxy

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  12. gate.js

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    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    gate.js Features

    1.  Nginx
    2.  HTTP Proxy

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  13. CProxy

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    CProxy is a HTTP caching proxy server written in Python 3. With the aim of being able to surf the Internet completely offline, it will intercept Browser's HTTPs requests and decrypt the the traffic on-the-fly to store each successful HTTP response.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    CProxy Features

    1.  HTTP Proxy

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    TBlock

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    TBlock is a content blocker that uses the hosts file (that is present in all operating systems) to block undesired websites.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  No Logs
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Block Trackers
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  File Hosting

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