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ZeroTier pricing: what a user costs with minimums and fixed charges

ZeroTier publishes $0.00 per user per month on monthly billing for its cheapest plan. A ten-user team pays $0 a month, or $0.00 per user.

The published per-user figure holds at small team sizes: there is no minimum user count and no mandatory fixed charge on this plan.

What the vendor publishes

Source: ZeroTier pricing page. checked 2026-08-21 “Fixed charge” is a monthly amount that does not change with the number of users.
Plan	Per user	On	Monthly billing	Min users	Fixed charge	Effective / user at 10	As published
Personal (Free)	$0.00	monthly billing	$0.00	—	—	$0.00	'Forever' free. Includes 10 devices, 1 network, 1 network admin.
Essential	$2.00	monthly billing	$2.00	—	$18.00 required	$3.80	'$18 Monthly' flat base fee including 10 devices; additional devices billed at '$2.00 / Device / Mo.'. 10 networks, 5 network admins. Priced per-device, not strictly per-user.
Scale	$1.80	monthly billing	$1.80	—	$179.00 required	$19.70	'$179 Monthly' flat base fee including 100 devices; additional devices billed at '$1.80 / Device / Mo.'. Unlimited networks, 10 network admins.
Enterprise	not published	—	—	—	—	—	Custom pricing, 'Commercial billing available'. Also a higher 'Quantum' tier exists with post-quantum (ML-KEM-1024) encryption and FISMA compliance, also custom-priced. Charities/education get up to 50% off.

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Ownership: not stated in the vendor's published documentation (checked 2026-08-21).

Annual-billing price: not stated in the vendor's published documentation (checked 2026-08-21).

What it costs as the team grows

Effective cost per user per month, by the size of your team. The multiplier shows how far that is above the published per-user price, which is what a minimum user count and a fixed charge do to a small team. checked 2026-08-21
Plan	2 users	5 users	10 users	25 users	50 users	100 users
Personal (Free)	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Essential	$11.00 5.5x	$5.60 2.8x	$3.80 1.9x	$2.72 1.4x	$2.36 1.2x	$2.18 1.1x
Scale	$91.30 50.7x	$37.60 20.9x	$19.70 10.9x	$8.96 5.0x	$5.38 3.0x	$3.59 2.0x

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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.

Who owns it

Who owns this company is not stated on its own site, and we could not confirm it from a primary source. We have left it blank rather than repeat what other sites say.

Where this leaves you

Who this page is not for

This is not a review. We have not used ZeroTier, we hold no opinion on how well it works, and nothing here is a recommendation. It answers one question: what the published price turns into per user at the size of your team.

Sources

ZeroTier pricing page — every figure on this page. checked 2026-08-21
data.json — the row behind this page, with the source URL and check date on every figure.

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.