Tailscale
Tailscale
Private network for your team's devices, free for up to 6 users
Tailscale connects laptops, phones, and servers into one private network, so staff can reach office computers, file shares, or servers without opening ports or running a VPN server. Personal is free for up to 6 users; Standard is $8 per user a month and Premium $18. Tailscale is for small teams with a few machines to reach remotely; a business with nothing to connect does not need it.
Cost at your size
Team size
For 6 people: $48 a month.
Tailscale costs $20.55 more than the median security & passwords tool for 6 people ($27.45).
Tailscale pays for itself if it saves 1.5 hours a month at $30 an hour, our assumption.
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Figures from the vendor's published prices. How we calculate prices
Getting help with Tailscale
- How to reach them
- Web form: every plan
- Community forum: every plan
- Help center: every plan
- Hours
- Hours not published
- Onboarding
- Solutions Engineer consultation and implementation assistance (Enterprise only)
19 incidents posted on Tailscale's status page, which covers all Tailscale products and regions, in the 90 days to Oct 27, 2026; 2 marked major or critical by Tailscale. Status page
A vendor that posts every small issue can show more incidents than one that posts few, so a low count doesn't prove fewer problems.
From Tailscale's support and pricing pages, October 2026 · checked by us 2026-10-15 · How we gather this
Sources
- tailscale.com/pricing, read 2026-10-13
- tailscale.com/contact/support, read 2026-10-13
- Web form: “Submit a support request Contact Tailscale’s Support Team.” (tailscale.com/contact/support)
- Community forum: “Reach out to the Tailscale community for help and advice.” (tailscale.com/contact/support)
- Help center: “Quality support, whenever you need it Search the Documentation” (tailscale.com/contact/support)
- Onboarding: “Solutions Engineer consultation and implementation assistance” (tailscale.com/pricing)
What reviewers say about Tailscale
- Capterra4.9 / 5 · 7 reviews · few reviews
- Trustpilot3.9 / 5 · 25 reviews
- G2See reviews on G2
- US App Store (iPhone app)4.4 / 5 · 769 ratings
- Google Play (Android app)4.1 / 5 · 4,921 ratings
Each site has its own reviewers, so we show the scores side by side and never average them. App ratings cover the mobile app only. Scores read Oct 28, 2026. How we show reviews
Recent changes at Tailscale
- Oct 2026LaunchTailscale released MagicRoute in beta for Premium and Enterprise plans, picking the nearest healthy subnet router or app connector for each client and keeping sessions steady. tailscale.com
- Aug 2026LaunchBegan selling DNS filtering by Control D through Tailscale, billed per user and applied to groups or devices in the tailnet. tailscale.com
- Aug 2026LaunchOpened a beta of Tailscale PAM for time-bound, audited access to databases, servers and internal apps, managed in the admin console. tailscale.com
Picked from Tailscale's own pages and the press, reviewed by us before publishing · checked weekly, last check Oct 26, 2026 · How we pick news
Why people pick it
- Free for small teams
- No VPN server to run
Where it falls short
- Needs some technical setup
- Not a password manager or antivirus
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