Tailscale review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Mesh / self-hosted median 2.5
- Mesh / self-hosted
- Jurisdiction:Canada, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness67%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support4.3 vs 3.9
- Security and protocols2.1 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms2.9 vs 3.4
- Stores session times
- Stores connection IP addresses
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Mesh / self-hosted services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Tailscalesegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.30.0
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 1.82.1
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 3.42.9
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 0.50.0
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 2.80.0
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.94.3
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
Tailscale pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.88 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Tailscale renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Standard, per user plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Tailscale running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 USD = €0.86). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard, per user, 1 mo | €6.88 | €6.88 / 1 mo | €82.56 | €165.12 | €247.68 |
| Premium, per user, 1 mo | €15.48 | €15.48 / 1 mo | €185.76 | €371.52 | €557.28 |
Compare Tailscale’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | 1 mo | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | $0.00 | 1 mo |
| Standard, per user | 1 mo | $8.00 | $8.00 | €6.88 | $8.00 | 1 mo |
| Premium, per user | 1 mo | $18.00 | $18.00 | €15.48 | $18.00 | 1 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 0 (payments non-cancelable, non-refundable)
- Refund conditions
- no refunds except as expressly stated in the Agreement
- Free trial
- 14 days, site (business/custom-domain tailnets)
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- card (monthly subscription); invoice (Enterprise); AWS/Azure marketplace
- Renewal note
- Monthly per-seat billing, prorated seat changes
Everything Tailscale publishes
Every fact we collected about Tailscale, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Tailscale Inc.
- Registered in
- Canada (Tailscale Inc., Toronto) for pre-2024-09 accounts; USA/Delaware (Tailscale US Inc.) for new accounts since 2024-09-03
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Personal (free)
- Standard
- Premium
- Enterprise (custom)
- Billing terms
- monthly; annual via sales
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (Personal); 8/user (Standard)
- Monthly plan
- 8 per user (Standard)
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Monthly per-seat billing, prorated seat changes
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- 8 USD/user/mo (Standard)
- 18 USD (Premium)
- Enterprise custom
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD: Personal $0
- Standard $8/user/mo
- Premium $18/user/mo
- Enterprise custom
- Mullvad add-on $5/mo per 5 devices
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Other add-ons
- Mullvad exit nodes +5 USD/mo per 5 devices; extra tagged resources 1 USD/mo each
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Yes special pricing for eligible non-profits and educational institutions
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited user devices
- Features locked to higher plans
- SCIM paid plans
- ACL group limits per plan
- advanced SSH check modes Premium+
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free devices
- unlimited user devices
- up to 6 users
- 50 tagged resources
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
- Other free plan terms
- 3 ACL groups; 1,000 ephemeral minutes/mo
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (monthly subscription)
- invoice (Enterprise)
- AWS/Azure marketplace
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 0 (payments non-cancelable, non-refundable)
- Refund conditions
- Yes refunds except as expressly stated in the Agreement
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 14 days
- Where the trial is offered
- site (business/custom-domain tailnets)
- Trial limits
- no user limit (FAQ); meta says Premium free 7 days
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- Not stated
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Not stated
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- No none (client app)
- Open-source apps
- Yes GitHub, open source page
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Not stated
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes app-based split tunneling on Android, v1.70+
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Trackers on the website
- advertising cookies (opt-out links provided)
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- may disclose if required by law or good-faith belief
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-08-25
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Email✕ Yes
- Connection IPdevice IP✕ Yes
- Session timesdate/time of access✕ Yes
- Bandwidthconnection logs with statistics of data sent/received✕ Yes
- Device infodevice name, OS, hostname, public key, user agent, language✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- WindowsWin10+/Server 2016+✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes support page
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Discord; Reddit
- Server status page
- Yes Tailscale Status
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes SSO with any IdP
- SCIM provisioning
- Yes paid plans
- Admin panel
- Yes
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes subnet routers, exit nodes
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes WireGuard mesh / identity-based ACLs, Tailscale SSH
- Identity providers
- any IdP (SSO)
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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Trustpilot
3.82 of 5, smoothed
From 25 collected reviews (raw average 4.12; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 3.67 from 3.
The company replied to 0 of 5 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.41 of 5, smoothed
From 194 collected reviews (raw average 3.38; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 2.36 from 33.
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Google Play
3.67 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 3.65; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.47 from 111.
The company replied to 0 of 119 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 3.9 (25 reviews); App Store (US) 4.40 (754 ratings); Google Play 4.1 (4.82K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
42 Reddit and forum threads mention Tailscale (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
App Store · 1★ · 09 Oct 2026 · GB
Hot phone
App Store · 5★ · 06 Oct 2026 · GB
Amazing
App Store · 5★ · 03 Oct 2026 · US
Great App 🙌
Google Play · 3★ · 14 Oct 2026
I don't what is going but I experienced a lot of deconnection during the last couple of week. I have to kill the app and restart it to get back online. It also…
Google Play · 5★ · 14 Oct 2026
works fantastic
Google Play · 5★ · 13 Oct 2026
unlimited bandwidth??? fast asf??? tcp+udp all protocols???? FREE??? Best app Ive used in a while!
Trustpilot · 5★ · 27 Sep 2026 · CA
RAS is dead. Hourrah for Tailscale!
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 24 Sep 2026 · DE
Super Angebot, einfach und bestens für VPS geeignet
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 01 Sep 2026 · GB
Shocking
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Tailscale appears on 4 topic pages. Its place on each:
Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://tailscale.com
- Pages checked
- https://tailscale.com/pricing; https://tailscale.com/privacy-policy; https://tailscale.com/download
- Other sources used
- registration_country, money_back_days, refund_conditions, crypto: https://tailscale.com/terms; split_tunneling: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/client/android-app-split-tunneling.md; student_discount, price_12m_pm: https://tailscale.com/docs/reference/faq/pricing; addons_other: https://tailscale.com/pricing
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