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tailscale.com · Zero-trust network access
SEPT 2026 audit

A WireGuard mesh network priced per user, with a free personal tier that carries nearly the whole product for one person.

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Entry paid plan$8 per user per month for Standard, which lifts the user cap entirely and adds SCIM provisioning.
Free tierYes
CategoryZero-trust network access

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

A small team with a lot of machines. The meter is people, not devices, so one engineer connecting twenty servers pays for one seat — and the free Personal tier is, in Tailscale's own words, nearly all of the product rather than a stripped one.

Consider something else if…

You need commercial use by more than one person without paying, or fine-grained group policy. Standard is $8 a user — the dearest here — and caps ACL groups at ten.

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Tailscale pricing

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Free tierYes
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  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “personal for individuals who want to securely connect devices, servers, or software. access nearly all of tailscale's offerings and products for free”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Kind of free offerFree tier
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  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “personal for individuals who want to securely connect devices, servers, or software. access nearly all of tailscale's offerings and products for free”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

What the free plan includesNearly all of the product, for individuals — Tailscale's own wording — rather than a feature-stripped tier. The limit is that it is one person, not which features they get.
Sources (1) →
  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “access nearly all of tailscale's offerings and products for free”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Entry paid plan$8 per user per month for Standard, which lifts the user cap entirely and adds SCIM provisioning.
Sources (1) →
  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “$8 per user, per month get started everything in personal, plus unlimited users deploy users and groups with scim up to 10 acl groups”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Pricing modelPer user per month, $8 on Standard, with machines not counted separately — the meter is people, and a user connecting twenty devices pays the same as one connecting two.
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  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “standard for teams adopting the tailscale platform as a secure connectivity solution and more. $8 per user, per month get started everything in personal, plus unlimited users”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Inference

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Rate limitsUp to 10 ACL groups on Standard, and 1,000 minutes a month for ephemeral resources.
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  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “deploy users and groups with scim up to 10 acl groups 1,000 mins per month for ephemeral resources”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Auth

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SCIM provisioningSupported
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  • Tailscale Pricing ↗

    “everything in personal, plus unlimited users deploy users and groups with scim up to 10 acl groups”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

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