5 alternatives to headscale

juanfont/headscale — An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (44,838 stars, BSD-3-Clause, auth, infra, database).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 200 licence-cleared components from juanfont/headscale itself.

The alternatives in detail

• tailscale/tailscale
  The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
  score 7.2/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 37,983 stars · 1,415 components · search them
• mvanhorn/agentcookie
  Your agent runs on a Mac that isn't your daily driver. agentcookie keeps its sessions in sync with the Mac you actually browse on, continuously, encrypted over Tailscale, so OpenClaw, Hermes, or any other agent runtime w
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 856 stars · 177 components · search them
• tus/tusd
  Reference server implementation in Go of tus: the open protocol for resumable file uploads
  score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 3,908 stars · 45 components · search them
• mjl-/mox
  modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email
  score 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 5,918 stars · 247 components · search them
• mailgun/mailgun-mcp-server
  Implementation of Model Context Protocol server for Mailgun APIs
  score 7.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 63 stars · 14 components · search them

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