Legacy Pricing

Tailscale has a Free plan that includes nearly everything Tailscale has to offer for up to 100 devices, and up to 3 provisioned users.

Tailscale will charge you at the end of each month for all active users on your account during that time period. Tailscale will automatically apply a credit for 3 monthly active users to the Starter and Premium plan. For example, if you have 10 active users in a month then you will only be billed for 7 of them.

Our Free plan offers the ability to add a maximum of 100 devices. However for our Starter, Premium, and Enterprise plans the total number of allowed devices increases as the number of provisioned users on the network increases. Device limits are pooled across the account.

For example: if you have 5 users on the Starter plan, you are entitled to 100 devices + (5 users x 10 devices each) = 150 devices. One user can have 30 provisioned devices and the remaining four users can each have 5 provisioned devices, leaving a pool of 100 devices for shared company resources (e.g. servers or file shares). Devices shared with you as a user don’t count towards your limit.

For example, if you sign up for the Starter plan and have 2 users, you are entitled to 120 devices. If you have 200 devices you want to add to your tailnet, you can purchase 80 more devices for your plan at $0.50 each, without needing to add more users.

ACLs allow your organization to adopt one of the core tenets of Zero Trust networking: least privileged access. Before joining your tailnet every user is authenticated using an identity provider (IdP) such as Okta, Azure AD, or Github. Organizations on certain plans can choose to segment their users into roles and groups (e.g. developer and engineering org) to apply policies at scale. ACL tags, the last piece to this puzzle, allow you to assign an identity to your devices. Once these pieces are in place, your teams can enforce least privilege access across your organization’s private network.

Customers on the Premium (and above) plan will get full ACL functionality. This includes having the ability to name individual users directly in ACL rules, the ability to create custom groups in the ACL file and the ability to name those custom groups in ACL rules. Customers in the Starter plans are are limited to the autogroups "admin" and "member" only. These are predefined roles created by Tailscale. Please see our ACL documentation for a more comprehensive explanation on ACLs and the Starter Plan ACL example for more information.

Not-for-profit organizations and educational institutions are eligible for a 50% discount. In order to receive the discount, you will need to provide documentation of your registered entity. Choose your plan on the Billing page of the admin console, then contact us to have the discount applied.