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Nginx Proxy Manager vs Caddy: catalog facts
Nginx Proxy Manager	Caddy
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Certificates are requested and renewed without touching a config file Access lists put authentication in front of services that have none	Automatic HTTPS by default, including a managed local CA for internal names and IPs A working reverse proxy with TLS takes two lines of configuration
Advanced Nginx configuration has to go into a custom snippet box Ships as a Docker image; there is no packaged install	Fewer third-party modules and less documentation than nginx Adding modules means rebuilding the binary with xcaddy
Self-hosted, Web application	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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