Cloudflare Zero Trust alternatives
Cloudflare Zero Trust is already the cheapest business VPN or zero-trust tool we track at a 10-person team (free). Here's how the other 2 compare. Ranked by price at the size you pick, with free plans, price hikes and how to switch.
Alternatives to Cloudflare Zero Trust at a 10-person team, cheapest first
- NextDNS: $19.90/mo Business is per 50 employees (Business). Free plan: Free: 300,000 queries/month with full filtering, unlimited devices; after that it resolves without blocking..
- Tailscale: $80/mo No annual pricing published (Standard). Free plan: Personal: free for non-commercial use, up to 6 users, unlimited user devices, 50 tagged resources, subnet routers. Last price hike: Jul 2026.
Prices at every size
- Cloudflare Zero Trust: a 10-person team free, 1 user free, a 50-person company free (Free up to 50 users)
- NextDNS: a 10-person team $19.90/mo, 1 user $1.99/mo, a 50-person company $19.90/mo (Business is per 50 employees)
- Tailscale: a 10-person team $80/mo, 1 user free, a 50-person company $400/mo (No annual pricing published)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the same job: 10 users with two devices each reaching one private office or cloud network, plus a solo founder and a 50-person company, including any dedicated gateway or static IP the product needs for that and excluding taxes and the cost of your own servers. DNS-filtering services, which do not provide network access, are priced for filtering the same team's devices.
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