WorkBuddy2API Panel vs Zrok
WorkBuddy2API Panel and Zrok are both web servers software. WorkBuddy2API Panel is open source under MIT, with 4.7k GitHub stars. Zrok is open source under Apache-2.0, with 4.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick WorkBuddy2API Panel when
- Not recommended: the author stopped maintaining it in October 2026 because Tencent began blocking unofficial clients.
- Pick Zrok when
- You need to expose a local service or folder to collaborators and want a self-hostable ngrok-style option built on OpenZiti.
Side by side
A gateway that pools Tencent WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy accounts and exposes them as an OpenAI-compatible API, with a web panel that also automates the accounts' reward tasks.
Shares local web services, TCP or UDP services and folders publicly or privately through a zero-trust overlay network, without opening firewall ports.
It breaks Tencent's terms of service, risks account bans, and is no longer maintained.
Self-hosting means running OpenZiti infrastructure, and the free zrok.io service has usage limits.
Experimental
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Command line, cloud service and self-hosted server
Go, JavaScript and Redis
Go, OpenZiti, PostgreSQL and TypeScript
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
4.7k GitHub stars
4.8k GitHub stars
New: started 1 month ago, latest release v1.13.0.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v2.0.9.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-06 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.