Comparison
AnchoredIP vs Wiredoor
These are not two versions of the same product, and comparing them feature by feature would mislead you. Wiredoor is software you run; AnchoredIP is address space we lease you. If you are choosing between them, it is usually because you have not yet worked out which half of the problem you actually have.
Wiredoor is a self-hosted, Apache-2.0 ingress platform built on WireGuard: it routes internet traffic to services on private networks — internal apps, IoT devices, a Kubernetes cluster — without opening ports. You supply the server, the domain and the public IP address it answers on. It is free, and if you already have all three it is a good answer.
We supply the third of those. An IPv4 address announced from our own AS41800, delivered over WireGuard to machines you already run, from $19 a month. Nothing to operate, and nothing that stops you running Wiredoor behind it.
Who supplies what
| Wiredoor | AnchoredIP | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Open-source software you run | A leased address, delivered |
| Licence or terms | Apache 2.0 | A monthly lease, cancel any time |
| Who supplies the server | You | We do |
| Who supplies the IP address | You | We do, out of AS41800 |
| Who supplies the domain | You | Reverse DNS is yours to set |
| Direction it is built for | Inbound to private services | Outbound identity, inbound too |
| Who operates it at 3am | You | We do |
| Software cost | Free | Included |
Read from wiredoor.net on 10 August 2026. It is an open-source project and it moves; check their documentation rather than this table if a detail matters to your decision.
The question that actually decides it
Ask what you would hand a partner who says “send us the IP and we will allowlist it”. If you already have an answer you are happy to have printed in somebody else’s firewall for the next three years, you need software, and Wiredoor is free.
If your honest answer is the address of a cloud instance you might rebuild, or one you would lose by changing provider, then the address is the problem and no tunnel software fixes it. That is the case we are for.
Questions people ask first
- Is Wiredoor a competitor?
- Not really, and the page would be more useful to you if we say so plainly. Wiredoor is the software that moves traffic through a tunnel. We lease the public address the traffic comes out of. If you run Wiredoor you still need a server with a stable public IP for it to live on, and that is the thing we sell.
- Can I use both together?
- Yes, and it is a reasonable setup. Point Wiredoor at a machine holding one of our addresses and you get its ingress features on address space that is announced from our AS and stays yours if you rebuild the machine or change hosting provider.
- When is Wiredoor alone the better choice?
- When you already have a server with a public address you are happy with, and what you want is to expose internal services through it. That is the problem it is built for, it is free, and paying us for an address you already have would be paying twice.
- When does the address have to come from somewhere else?
- When the address is the deliverable rather than the plumbing — a partner has asked for one entry to allowlist, a payment processor or a bank wants a fixed origin, or you need the identity to survive changing hosting provider. A cloud instance address belongs to the cloud, so it ends when the instance does; ours is announced from our own AS41800 and follows the lease rather than the machine.
- How much does the address cost?
- $19 a month for one dedicated IPv4, unmetered, and up to 2 machines behind it. Published price, no quote to request. There is a seven-day trial on a real address if you would rather test than take our word.
Try it rather than take our word
Seven days on a real address out of the same range paying customers are in, so you can put it in front of the partner whose allowlist started all this. No card, and nobody to talk to.