The Best 20 DD-WRT Alternatives

  • OpenWrt

    OpenWRT ( open - wireless receiver transmitter ) is a niche Linux distribution mainly installed on embedded devices, e.g. residential gateways.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • ClearOS

    ClearOS is a family of operating systems for the enterprise, small business, and home. There are three editions to choose from depending on your needs and suitable to your abilities.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • MikroTik RouterOS

    The main product of MikroTik is a Linux-based operating system known as MikroTik RouterOS.

    Commercial Web Self-Hosted

  • Tomato

    Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment

    OpenWrt fork with open governance model to encourage development for embedded such as SOHO routers and non-network devices.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Android Tablet Chrome OS Self-Hosted OpenWrt

  • Untangle

    Untangle is a platform for deploying network based applications. The platform unites these applications around a common GUI, database and reporting.

    Freemium Linux

  • LibreMesh

    LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks. By default it uses ad-hoc wifi networking and batman-adv, BMX as the routing daemons.

    Free Linux OpenWrt LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment

  • SmoothWall

    The SmoothWall Open Source Project was set up to develop and maintain SmoothWall Express - a Free firewall that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an easy-to-use web interface.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Gargoyle

    Gargoyle is a free firmware upgrade for your wireless router, based on OpenWRT but with an enhanced interface (not LUCI) focused on ease of use.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux OpenWrt

  • Tomato by Shibby

    TomatoUSB fork. - Torrent client integration (Transmission) with user-friendly GUI for configuration. - NFS server integration - Support for USB 3G modems (thx @LDevil) - Support MultiWAN.

    Free Open Source Linux Tomato

  • telehash

    An embeddable private network stack for devices Source code : https://github.com/telehash

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux JavaScript GitHub

  • AdvancedTomato

    A router's graphical user interface is the most important part of the system because most users are unable or unwilling to configure a router by any other means.

    Free Open Source Linux Tomato by Shibby

  • EasyTomato

    EasyTomato is a powerful, easy-to-use, free bandwidth manager that is perfect for schools, hospitals, and nonprofits with slow internet connections and limited IT knowledge.

    Free Web Tomato

  • TomatoUSB

    Tomato USB is an alternative Linux-based firmware for powering Broadcom-based ethernet routers. It is a modification of the famous Tomato firmware, with additional...

    Free Open Source Linux Tomato

  • Gluon

    Gluon is a modular framework for creating OpenWRT-based firmwares for wireless mesh servers. Several Freifunk communities in Germany use Gluon as the foundation of...

    Free Open Source Linux GitHub OpenWrt Read The Docs

  • OpenWISP

    OpenWISP is a software platform that can be used to implement a complete public wifi service. The suite includes applications derived from tools used to offer public...

    Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted

  • libreCMC

    Now merged with LibreWRT, libreCMC is the libre Embedded GNU/Linux Distro. libreCMC is a set of fully free embedded Operating Systems for general purpose computers.

    Free Linux

  • CacheGuard-OS

    CacheGuard OS is an Appliance oriented Operating System dedicated to Web traffic Security and Optimization.

    Free Open Source Windows VirtualBox VMware vSphere Hypervisor Microsoft Hyper-V Server Proxmox Virtual Environment