| Feature | SoftEther Client | OpenVPN Client | WireGuard | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Very High | Moderate | Very High | | Firewall Evasion | Excellent (Runs on HTTPS 443) | Good (often blocked) | Poor (UDP traffic easily blocked) | | Setup Complexity | Moderate | High | Low | | Code Audit | Limited independent audits | Extensive | Extensive | | OS Support | Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD | Cross-platform | Cross-platform |
SoftEther (Short for "Soft Ether") started as an academic project at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Unlike proprietary VPNs that function as closed ecosystems, SoftEther is open-source and designed to emulate standard protocols while improving upon them. vpn client softether
For years, OpenVPN has been the standard for open-source security, but it has a well-known weakness: latency. Because OpenVPN operates in "user space" (rather than kernel space) and carries significant overhead, speeds can bottleneck on high-latency connections. | Feature | SoftEther Client | OpenVPN Client