V2Ray

Health v2 · maintenance only

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34509 stars · 5075 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 Go-based network proxy platform for building tunnels that bypass network restrictions and protect privacy. It supports multiple inbound/outbound protocols such as VMess, VLESS, Shadowsocks, Trojan, SOCKS, and HTTP, with configurable routing, traffic obfuscation, and load balancing.

Use cases

• bypass internet censorship and network restrictions
• set up a personal proxy server with vmess or vless
• tunnel traffic through shadowsocks or trojan protocols
• route traffic by domain or region with custom rules
• disguise proxy traffic as normal HTTPS web traffic
• run a multi-protocol socks5 and http proxy locally

When to choose

• you need a highly configurable multi-protocol proxy core with routing and load balancing
• you want traffic obfuscation and replay protection to evade censorship
• you need native cross-platform support on Windows, macOS, and Linux

When to avoid

• you want a simple one-click VPN client with a GUI rather than a configurable core
• you need a turnkey commercial VPN service
• you are unwilling to write or manage JSON configuration files

Facets

application · maturity active

proxy networking privacy vpn security websocket routing privacy networking censorship-circumvention security cross-platform windows cross-platform go cli anticensorship vmess vless shadowsocks trojan socks5 tunnel traffic-obfuscation load-balancing linux macos

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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="v2fly/v2ray-core")