Zero-trust network access · US dollar pricing

Tailscale alternatives, ranked by cost per user

6 of the 7 nearest vendors we hold work out cheaper per user than Tailscale at ten users, where it costs $8.00.

The cheapest is Firezone at $4.16. At two users the order is different, which is what the second column shows.

NordLayer is one of the alternatives in the table below. Compare NordLayer with Tailscale in detail.

The group, at three team sizes

Cheapest published plan at each vendor, ordered by effective cost per user at ten users. Ordering is that number and nothing else — see Method.
Vendor	Published per user	Min users	Fixed charge	At 2 users	At 10 users	At 50 users
Tailscale (this page) See Tailscale plans	$8.00	—	—	$8.00	$8.00	$8.00
Firezone See Firezone plans	$4.16	—	—	$4.16	$4.16	$4.16
Twingate See Twingate plans	$5.00	—	—	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00
UTunnel VPN See UTunnel VPN plans	$6.00	5	$5.00 required	$17.50	$6.50	$6.10
Cloudflare One See Cloudflare One plans	$7.00	—	—	$7.00	$7.00	$7.00
GoodAccess See GoodAccess plans	$7.00	5	$49.00 optional	$17.50	$7.00	$7.00
OpenVPN CloudConnexa See OpenVPN CloudConnexa plans	$7.00	—	—	$7.00	$7.00	$7.00
NordLayer See NordLayer business plans	$8.00	5	—	$20.00	$8.00	$8.00

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How that is worked out

users billed = max(users you have, minimum users the plan bills) user subtotal = published per-user price x users billed fixed charges = the mandatory gateway, server or base fee, where the plan requires one monthly total = user subtotal + fixed charges effective per user = monthly total / users you have uplift = effective per user / published per-user price three-year cost = monthly total x 36 + setup fee

Nothing else is added. Optional add-ons are shown in the tables and left out of every computed figure, and so are taxes, which none of these vendors publishes. Every figure here is a floor. The full method is at Method.

When to stay where you are

Minimums decide small teams. UTunnel VPN (5 users), GoodAccess (5 users), NordLayer (5 users) bill a minimum, so the two-user column is the one to read if that is your size.
Fixed charges do the same thing: UTunnel VPN ($5/mo) add an amount that does not move with headcount.
Switching remote-access products is not free either. Devices have to be re-enrolled and routes rebuilt, and no vendor here publishes what that takes.
If your team is about to double, rank on the fifty-user column instead — the calculator takes any number.

Who this is not for

This is a price ranking, not a shortlist of better products. We have not used any of these vendors, and nothing here speaks to how secure or how fast they are.

Sources

Tailscale pricing page. checked 2026-10-02
Firezone pricing page. checked 2026-09-07
Twingate pricing page. checked 2026-10-02
UTunnel VPN pricing page. checked 2026-09-08
Cloudflare One pricing page. checked 2026-10-02
GoodAccess pricing page. checked 2026-09-07
OpenVPN CloudConnexa pricing page. checked 2026-09-07
NordLayer pricing page. checked 2026-10-02

Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from providers' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.