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Cloudflare TunnelPinggy
Freemium

cloudflared is free and open source, and Cloudflare Tunnel is available on Cloudflare's…

 Freemium

Free tunnels with changing URLs; Pinggy Pro adds persistent URLs, with a 7-day trial.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Command line
  • No inbound ports opened; the daemon connects outbound to Cloudflare
  • Works behind carrier-grade NAT where port forwarding is impossible
  • Works over plain SSH without installing a client
  • Supports HTTP, TCP, UDP and TLS tunnels
  • Requires a Cloudflare account and a domain on Cloudflare
  • Your traffic passes through Cloudflare, which is a dependency and a trust decision
  • Free tunnel URLs change on reconnect
  • Hosted service only; not self-hostable
Downloadable app Downloadable app, Hosted service
Open source Closed source
License: Apache-2.0 License not stated
Account needed No account needed
Needs internet Needs internet

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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