HyNetworks/hysteria
Hysteria is powerful, lightning-fast, and censorship-resistant open-source proxy software observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 20.5
- age_days: 2326
- days_rel: 11
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 21
Adoption not part of the score
22383 stars · 2244 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Hysteria is a fast, censorship-resistant proxy built on a customized QUIC protocol that masquerades as standard HTTP/3 traffic. It supports SOCKS5, HTTP proxy, TCP/UDP forwarding, TProxy, and TUN modes, plus a peer-to-peer NAT traversal mode (Realms) for hosting without a public IP.
Use cases
- bypass internet censorship and firewalls
- proxy traffic over lossy or high-latency networks
- set up a self-hosted proxy server on a VPS
- host a proxy server from home behind NAT without port forwarding
- provide a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy for local apps
- tunnel traffic through networks that block or throttle UDP
- disguise proxy traffic as normal HTTPS/HTTP/3
When to choose
- you need fast proxying on unreliable, lossy, or high-latency connections
- you need censorship resistance with traffic that looks like standard HTTP/3
- you want to self-host a proxy without a public IP using UDP hole punching
- you need cross-platform builds including routers, ARM devices, and Android
- you want built-in auth, traffic stats, and access control for multi-user setups
When to avoid
- you need a full managed VPN solution with official infrastructure - Hysteria is software only, you run your own server
- your network blocks UDP entirely and you cannot use the Linux-only mimic TCP mode
- you need a GUI-first consumer VPN app rather than a config-file-driven tool
- you only need simple site-to-site VPN tunneling rather than proxying
Facets
application · maturity active
proxy vpn networking cryptography http-server cli censorship-circumvention privacy networking security self-hosted windows bsd cli cross-platform go quic socks5 http-proxy tun nat-traversal udp-hole-punching anti-censorship http3 gfw-bypass linux macos android
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/HyNetworks/hysteria · fetched 2026-08-28 · cf4f2e0f2676
- homepage: https://hysteria.network/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5ece6b18e748
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/advanced/Realms · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3ed30be2a7eb
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/getting-started/Installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4a0fd9da2ac2
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/Changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · ee2b72765d6d
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/Artworks · fetched 2026-08-29 · fe2faf574dd2
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/Donation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0b21d04fc65c
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/getting-started/Server-Installation-Script · fetched 2026-08-29 · da15c2201c2f
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/getting-started/Server · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2483c8e1a0ce
- site_page: https://hysteria.network/docs/getting-started/Client · fetched 2026-08-29 · ac489ab5a79c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| HyNetworks/hysteria | main | 99 |
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