NextDNS alternatives
At a 10-person team, NextDNS costs $19.90 a month. 1 business VPN or zero-trust tool costs less, from $0 (Cloudflare Zero Trust). Ranked by price at the size you pick, with free plans, price hikes and how to switch.
Alternatives to NextDNS at a 10-person team, cheapest first
- Cloudflare Zero Trust: free Free up to 50 users (Free Plan). Free plan: Free plan for up to 50 users with Access, Gateway, WARP client and Tunnel; 24-hour logs, community support..
- 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
- 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)
- Cloudflare Zero Trust: a 10-person team free, 1 user free, a 50-person company free (Free up to 50 users)
- 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.
Built a cheaper business VPN or zero-trust tool?
List it on PriceHiked for free as an alternative to NextDNS: Add your product. It's ranked by price at the same size; sponsored listings are labeled and never change the order.
Everything about NextDNS's own prices and price hikes: NextDNS.