# Twingate

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/ztna/twingate/

A zero-trust access product priced per user with a user ceiling on every tier, so the plan is chosen by headcount twice over.

## Who it suits

Retiring a legacy VPN on a budget, at a known headcount. $5 a user to 100 people is the cheapest commercial seat of the three, and device posture checks and least-privilege policies arrive at that tier rather than above it.

Consider something else if You are relying on the free plan for work, or you do not know your headcount. Starter is limited to NON-COMMERCIAL use, which neither of the others restricts, and every paid tier caps users as well as charging per user — so growth changes the plan and not just the invoice.

## iScore

80 / 100 (80% interval 72–88), rank 3 of 3 in ztna.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every ztna peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/ztna/twingate/alternatives/

- Price: 80 (73–86), weight 36%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 58 (32–84), weight 29%, 1 of 2 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: self_hostable
- Trust and compliance: 100 (94–100), weight 21%, 0 of 1 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: scim_provisioning
- Evidence: 95 (95–95), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- What the free plan includes: Up to 5 users, with peer-to-peer connections, split tunnelling and conditional access controls — but limited to non-commercial use, which the other two do not restrict. ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- When the free offer ends: Paid tiers carry a 14-day trial; the free Starter plan does not expire but is licensed for non-commercial use. ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Entry paid plan: $5 per user per month for Teams, capped at 100 users; Business is $10 to 500 users. A separate $15 a month Home plan covers up to 7 users for a homelab. ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Pricing model: Per user per month AND capped by user count at every tier: Starter is free to 5 users, Teams is $5 to 100, Business is $10 to 500. You pay per head and the plan still runs out of heads, which is a different shape from a per-seat price with no ceiling. ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)

### Auth

- Multi-factor authentication: Limited ([source](https://www.twingate.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)

## Compared with

- [Twingate vs Tailscale](https://inetgeek.com/compare/tailscale-vs-twingate/)
- [Twingate vs NetBird](https://inetgeek.com/compare/twingate-vs-netbird/)