A QUIC implementation in pure Go by lucas-clemente

A production-ready QUIC implementation in pure Go

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Verdict 79/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 3/5 setup difficulty 1 open CVE Last release 4 months ago

Self-host A QUIC implementation in pure Go on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
79 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
3 /5
External DB / setup
GitHub stars
12k
1.6k forks

About A QUIC implementation in pure Go

From the project's README at github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://quic-go.net/docs/) [](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/quic-go/quic-go) [](https://codecov.io/gh/quic-go/quic-go/) [](https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues?q=quic-go)

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol (RFC 9000, RFC 9001, RFC 9002) in Go. It has support for HTTP/3 (RFC 9114), including QPACK (RFC 9204) and HTTP Datagrams (RFC 9297).

In addition to these base RFCs, it also implements the following RFCs:

Unreliable Datagram Extension (RFC 9221) Datagram Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (DPLPMTUD, RFC 8899) QUIC Version 2 ([RFC 9369](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
83
maturity
100
community
94
security
85
sustainability
88
adoption
38

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 12k github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go
GitHub forks 1.6k github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age10.1 yearssince Apr 2016
Last commit4 days agoMay 3, 2026
Releases shipped100last: 4 months ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers
Funding links1declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Security advisories

4 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. 1 currently open without a documented fix. Most recent: CVE-2025-64702.

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