V2Ray

Health v2 · maintenance only

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46932 stars · 8815 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

V2Ray (Project V) is a network proxy platform written in Go for building proxies to bypass network restrictions and censorship. It supports multiple inbound and outbound protocols such as VMess, Shadowsocks, SOCKS, and HTTP with configurable routing and traffic obfuscation.

Use cases

• bypass internet censorship and access blocked websites
• set up a VMess or Shadowsocks proxy server
• route my traffic through a socks5 or http proxy
• disguise proxy traffic as normal HTTPS web traffic
• tunnel traffic over websocket or mKCP transports
• split traffic by domain or region with custom routing rules
• protect my traffic from ISP surveillance

When to choose

• You need a censorship-resistant proxy supporting multiple protocols (VMess, Shadowsocks, SOCKS, HTTP) in a single process
• You want fine-grained routing rules to send traffic to different outbound proxies by domain, region, or protocol
• You need traffic obfuscation that makes proxy connections look like ordinary HTTPS traffic
• You need a cross-platform proxy that runs natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD

When to avoid

• You want a one-click consumer VPN - V2Ray requires manual JSON configuration and is CLI-driven
• You need a managed proxy service with a graphical interface - use a third-party V2Ray GUI client instead
• You only need a simple SOCKS proxy without encryption or routing features - a lighter tool suffices

Facets

application · maturity active

proxy networking privacy security cryptography censorship-circumvention privacy networking security windows bsd cross-platform cli go vmess shadowsocks socks5 http-proxy anti-censorship traffic-obfuscation reverse-proxy websocket-transport linux macos

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="v2ray/v2ray-core")