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The best GOST alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to GOST, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

You're replacing

GOST

A command-line proxy and tunnel tool that forwards traffic over many protocols, written in Go.

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    V2Ray

    Open source · MIT · ★ 46.9k

    Proxy network tools for bypassing restrictions; this repo says it has moved to v2fly.

    Best for: Developers who want to read the source of a Go proxy platform; People who need to find the current v2fly/v2ray-core repository

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    V2Ray

    Open source · MIT · ★ 34.7k

    A network toolkit for building your own proxies that secure connections and protect privacy.

    Best for: Developers who want to build and configure their own proxy server; Technically comfortable users who want to run a self-hosted private network route

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    shadowsocks

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11k

    A Rust implementation of the shadowsocks proxy tool, with client and server binaries.

    Best for: Developers who want a native Rust build of shadowsocks; People comfortable running command-line proxy tools on their own machine or server

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to GOST. We don't take payment for placement.