Pangolin vs Warpgate

Both are self-hosted remote access projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Pangolin and Warpgate are closely matched on maintenance health (90 vs 86). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
PangolinWarpgate
Health score 90/100 86/100
Commits (11 mo) 5693 836
Commits (last 3 mo) 1296 467
Stars 23k 8k
Latest release 16 Sept 2026 23 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with Docker Rust, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Pangolin

Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).

90/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 89%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 663 commits 2025-11: 380 commits 2025-12: 769 commits 2026-01: 285 commits 2026-02: 519 commits 2026-03: 476 commits 2026-04: 651 commits 2026-05: 654 commits 2026-06: 442 commits 2026-07: 374 commits 2026-08: 480 commits

Warpgate

Fully transparent SSH, HTTPS, Kubernetes, MySQL and Postgres bastion/PAM that doesn't need additional client-side software.

86/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 31/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 76% of tracked projects; popularity more than 75%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 25 commits 2025-11: 18 commits 2025-12: 23 commits 2026-01: 57 commits 2026-02: 31 commits 2026-03: 77 commits 2026-04: 63 commits 2026-05: 75 commits 2026-06: 130 commits 2026-07: 167 commits 2026-08: 170 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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