pgrok/pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
82/100
- Activity 85
- Release rhythm 74
- Longevity 91
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 83.5
- age_days: 1274
- days_rel: 92
- days_push: 92
- n_releases_24m: 7
Adoption not part of the score
3627 stars · 131 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
pgrok is a self-hosted, multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution that exposes local development environments to the public internet using SSH remote port forwarding. It assigns each team member a stable subdomain gated through your own SSO provider via OIDC, positioning itself as a bare-bones alternative to ngrok's enterprise tier for small teams.
Use cases
- expose my local dev server to the public internet
- self-hosted ngrok alternative with SSO
- share localhost with teammates behind single sign-on
- ssh remote port forwarding tunnel with stable subdomains
- test webhooks against a local development environment
- let non-technical teammates access a locally running app without server setup
When to choose
- A small team needs to expose local development environments to the internet with stable, per-user subdomains
- You already have a domain, a public-facing server, an OIDC SSO provider (Google, Okta, Keycloak, GitLab, etc.), and a PostgreSQL instance
- You want SSO-gated tunnels without paying per-user enterprise pricing of commercial tunneling services
When to avoid
- Production systems requiring an SLA - the README explicitly warns this is not built for production reliability
- Individuals who just want a quick throwaway tunnel and don't want to own a domain, server, and SSO setup
- Teams where nobody can operate a VPS, DNS records, and PostgreSQL
Facets
service · maturity active
networking proxy ssh auth self-hosted web-development developer-tools networking self-hosted security windows self-hosted go cli ngrok-alternative reverse-tunnel ssh-tunnel port-forwarding tunneling sso oidc multi-tenant stable-subdomains localhost-exposure webhook-testing postgresql caddy linux macos docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/pgrok/pgrok · fetched 2026-08-28 · 186f4503a1be
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pgrok/pgrok | main | 82 |
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