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mitmproxy
Last updated 2026-06-11 · benchmark measured 2026-08-13 — deterministic & reproducible
mitmproxy is a free, open source interactive HTTPS proxy for traffic inspection.
Is mitmproxy production-ready?
Legit.Show scores mitmproxy 67 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on mitmproxy (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 74/100
- Accessibility — 84/100
- Security — 30/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 25/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 156 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Aldo Cortesi (@cortesi) · product account @mitmproxy
Who it's for
Developers · Security testers · QA engineers · Privacy researchers · DevOps professionals
Pricing
Free and open source
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