| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Proxy Software | 7.7 (#8) | 7.0 (#18) |
| Compatibility limit | Proxy-behind-proxy setups are completely unsupported, according to the compatibility documentation. | YvLink does not terminate online-mode authentication or generate Velocity modern forwarding or BungeeCord player information. |
| Product | Velocity is a high-performance Minecraft proxy and a full alternative to Waterfall. | YvLink is a Rust and Tokio Minecraft Java TCP proxy that routes connections by hostname and transparently forwards later game and mod-loader traffic. |
| Security | Velocity’s modern player information forwarding for Minecraft 1.13 and later requires the proxy and server to share a pre-arranged secret key. | The management API uses a Bearer Token, configuration changes are persisted atomically, and the maker recommends keeping the management listener on loopback and exposing it through HTTPS. |
