Pangolin Self-Hosted Reverse Proxy Service

Pangolin Self-Hosted Reverse Proxy Service

Basic Information
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In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://pangolin.net/

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Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User freedom
• User privacy
• Business model
• Market control

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Pangolin is a self-hosted, open-source reverse proxy and remote access platform positioned as an alternative to services such as Cloudflare Tunnels.

While the core software remains available under an open-source license, development has increasingly shifted toward a multi-tier model consisting of Community Edition (self-hosted OSS core) and Enterprise/Cloud editions (managed and extended feature sets).

As a result, the Community Edition increasingly functions as a baseline version, while many newer platform-level features are delivered primarily in Enterprise or Cloud tiers.

Community Edition vs Enterprise Feature Drift

Feature / Capability	Community Edition (Self-Hosted)	Enterprise / Cloud Edition	Notes / First Appearance Core reverse proxy / tunneling - Identity-aware access control - Role-based access control (RBAC) - Multi-site routing / HA features - Wildcard resources - Private resource HTTPS management - Alerting / uptime monitoring - Admin / action logs - Browser-based SSH - Browser-based RDP - Browser-based VNC - Integrated SSH system - Onboarding / hosted control plane - User limits / licensing scale } Consumer-impact summary (continued) The Community Edition remains functional for basic self-hosted tunneling, but receives fewer major feature additions over time compared to Enterprise and Cloud offerings. For users adopting Pangolin specifically as a self-hosted alternative to commercial tunnel platforms, this results in a widening gap between expected feature parity and actual Community Edition capabilities. See also Link to relevant theme articles or companies with similar incidents. Add your text below this box. Once this section is complete, delete this box by clicking on it and pressing backspace. Open-core software model Self-hosted software WireGuard Cloudflare Tunnels Twingate References