Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lante

Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lantern aims more at mainstream users who just want to avoid censors for fast access to the open web. It also uses some different approaches, see https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-Questions-and-Answers https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-... for some info on the tech.