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Hysteria vs Cloak: catalog facts
Hysteria	Cloak
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Performs well on lossy and congested links Designed to resist censorship and blocking	Server is hard to tell apart from a normal web server, even under active probing Works in front of OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Tor and other TCP or UDP proxies
Requires your own server to connect to Command-line configuration rather than a graphical app	Not a standalone proxy; needs a separate proxy program behind it Requires running and configuring your own server
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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