Squid Alternatives for Linux

    There are many alternatives to Squid for Linux if you are looking to replace it. The most popular Linux alternative is Small Privoxy iconPrivoxy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Squid and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Squid are Small Varnish iconVarnish (Free, Open Source), Small hBlock iconhBlock (Free, Open Source), Small TinyProxy iconTinyProxy (Free, Open Source) and Small Polipo iconPolipo (Free, Open Source).

    The list of alternatives was last updated Nov 25, 2020
    Squid info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Squid
    • 21 alternatives
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    • Privoxy

      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... View 33 alternatives to Privoxy
      Some users think Privoxy is a great alternative to Squid, some don't.
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      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
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      Privoxy vs Squid
      pros, cons and recent comments
      It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect.
      Top positive comment  almost 6 years ago

      squid increases speed by storing caching specific http, curl requests.
      Top negative comment  about 5 years ago

      There is no similarity between the two applications. Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is not.
      Negative comment • 10 months ago

      Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is a non-caching software. There is no overlap in the use-cases for those types of software.
      Negative comment • about 4 years ago

      Privoxy doesn't cache web content.
      Negative comment • about 4 years ago

      No caching function. Primary usage of squid.
      Negative comment • over 4 years ago

    • Varnish

      Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator. You can install it on your HTTP server and it makes your application more accessible. View 17 alternatives to Varnish
      This alternative is disputed. Varnish is still a legitimate alternative to Squid, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
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      Varnish vs Squid
      pros, cons and recent comments
      It is an alternative for the server-side use of squid. It is not suitable for the client-side functionality
      Negative comment • over 2 years ago

    • hBlock

      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... View 26 alternatives to hBlock
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      • Free • Open Source
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    • TinyProxy

      Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying. View 24 alternatives to TinyProxy
      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
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    • Polipo

      A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). View 17 alternatives to Polipo

      Discontinued

      From the official website, "Polipo is obsolete. When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy available. Since then, the web protocols have changed, and Polipo hasn't kept up — it has no support for HTTP/2.0 or the WebSocket protocol. Polipo will no longer be maintained."

      • Free • Open Source
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    • Apache Traffic Server

      Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP. View 17 alternatives to Apache Traffic Server
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      • Free • Open Source
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      • Self-Hosted
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      Apache Traffic Server vs Squid
      pros, cons and recent comments
      ATS has an event driven architecture where as Squid runs single-threaded. ATS scales much better than Squid.
      Positive comment • about 4 years ago

    • Artica Proxy

      ARTICA Proxy is an enterprise grade security appliance : web filtering (w/o SSL decryption), DNS Filtering, bandwith optimisation, easy ACL management, users authentication on... View 9 alternatives to Artica Proxy
      • Free Personal • Open Source
      • Linux
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    • 3proxy

      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. View 6 alternatives to 3proxy

      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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      • Free • Open Source
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    • discrimiNAT

      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. View 1 alternatives to discrimiNAT
      • Linux
      • Self-Hosted
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Google Cloud Platform
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    • ExaProxy

      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. View 8 alternatives to ExaProxy
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      • Free • Proprietary
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