# Tailscale pricing

Last confirmed on the vendor's page: 2026-11-03. Source: https://tailscale.com/pricing. Confidence: high.

Cheapest paid plan: Standard, $8 a month per user.

| Plan | Per month | Unit | Billing | On the vendor's page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Personal | Free |  |  |  |
| Standard | $8 | seat | monthly | $8Per user, per month |
| Premium | $18 | seat | monthly |  |
| Enterprise | Contact sales |  |  |  |

## Hidden costs and limits

- Active user billing: Tailscale charges for any user who connects during a billing period. A contractor who connects once in a month counts as a full active user at $6 or $18. No prorating for partial use
- DERP relay traffic: peer-to-peer connections are free, but when NAT traversal fails, traffic routes through Tailscale DERP relays. This is included but adds latency and reduces throughput, monitor relay usage for performance-critical paths
- No built-in DNS filtering or threat protection: Tailscale routes traffic but does not inspect it. You still need a separate DNS filtering solution (Pi-hole, NextDNS) and endpoint security. It replaces the VPN, not the firewall
- Subnet router hosting: connecting legacy devices or entire subnets requires running a subnet router on your infrastructure. This node must stay online 24/7, adding an operational burden Tailscale does not manage for you
- Exit node bandwidth: using a Tailscale node as an exit node (full tunnel) routes all traffic through that machine. Cloud-hosted exit nodes incur egress charges from your cloud provider, a busy exit node on AWS can cost $0.09/GB outbound
- Premium-only features that teams expect: SSH session recording, log streaming, and SCIM provisioning are Enterprise-only. Most growing teams will outgrow Starter quickly and face a 3x jump from $6 to $18/user/month

## Recent price changes

- 2026-11-03: Plans changed: Standard added at $8 per user a month; Personal Plus, Starter removed.

## Cite

Toolradar, verified 2026-11-03, https://toolradar.com/tools/tailscale/pricing

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