As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates GoodAccess 3/5 and Twingate 3/5 in Business VPN & Zero Trust Access. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks GoodAccess and 5 pick Twingate. GoodAccess scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Pricing transparency). Twingate scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (Architecture, reliability & security assurance, Deployment, API & administration, European sovereignty, plus 3 more). Provenance — GoodAccess: EU-Made; Twingate: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The split is the story. Twingate's mean is higher on six criteria, GoodAccess on one. Twingate leads deployment and administration (7.0 vs 5.5, six judges lean Twingate), architecture and assurance (6.7 vs 5.0, six lean Twingate), identity and policy (8.0 vs 7.2, five lean Twingate, one tie) and sovereignty (3.8 vs 2.8, four lean Twingate, two tie); access and connectivity (7.0 vs 6.8) and visibility and audit (6.8 vs 6.7) each draw five ties. GoodAccess takes pricing transparency, 6.5 vs 3.3, with six judges leaning GoodAccess and zero leaning Twingate: its captured pages give different figures for the Premium per-user price, $11 and $14, while we found no public per-user price for Twingate. Weighted totals favor Twingate on five judges; the panel's skeptic has GoodAccess ahead, 6 vs 5.9. Each listed sovereignty attribute reads unknown for both. No overall winner is declared.
Choose GoodAccess if
You need to compute an annual cost from what is published — pricing transparency leans GoodAccess, 6.5 vs 3.3 (six judges to zero), and we found no public per-user price for Twingate.
Your procurement team requires a published per-user price to shortlist a vendor — the captured pages show one for GoodAccess Premium, though they give different figures for it, $11 and $14.
You need dedicated gateways with static IPs in 35+ locations at a published price — access and connectivity is close (6.8 vs 7.0, five judges tie) and pricing transparency leans GoodAccess.
You need logs with published fields streaming to your SIEM alongside a published price — visibility and audit draws five ties (6.7 vs 6.8) and pricing transparency leans GoodAccess.
Your priorities match the panel's skeptic — the one weighted total that favors GoodAccess, 6 vs 5.9.
Choose Twingate if
You need authentication delegated to your own identity provider, posture checks reading CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Intune and Jamf, and re-authentication windows from one hour to 31 days — identity and policy is 8.0 vs 7.2, five judges lean Twingate, one tie.
Your team owns day-to-day deployment and administration — the criterion stands at 7.0 vs 5.5, six judges lean Twingate.
You weigh architecture and assurance evidence heavily — it stands at 6.7 vs 5.0, six judges lean Twingate; the verdict notes the security whitepaper sits behind a lead-capture form.
You need documented clarity on data transfers before signing — sovereignty leans Twingate 3.8 vs 2.8 (four judges, two ties); its privacy policy acknowledges transfers of EEA, UK and Swiss personal data outside those regions, while we found no public information for GoodAccess on where account data and logs are stored or processed.
Your role matches the panel's IT lead, devops engineer, MSP technician, operations manager or security officer — weighted totals favor Twingate in each case: 6.2 vs 5.9, 6.7 vs 5.8, 6.3 vs 5.9, 6.3 vs 5.8, 6.5 vs 5.7.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The MSP Technician
Senior technician at an IT service provider in Hamburg that looks after thirty clients, from tax advisers to a dental chain. Each client has its own remote access, set up by whoever was on site that year. Wants one console with a tenant per client, gateways and users added in minutes, access logs a client can be shown after an incident, billing per tenant, and prices per user that can be quoted without calling the vendor first.
GoodAccess
Twingate
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Access model & connectivity
GoodAccess
Dedicated cloud gateways with a static IP in a choice of 35+ locations, clients for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and ChromeOS, OpenVPN or IKEv2 for clients and IPsec or IKEv2 for site-to-site and cloud connectors into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OVHcloud — that covers nearly everything my thirty clients need. Per-application access through Access Cards plus forced always-on take it past a plain VPN. We found no public information on clientless browser access for contractors, split DNS, or peer-to-peer connections with relay fallback.
Twingate
Per-resource access through connectors behind the firewall with no inbound ports, peer-to-peer first with relays as fallback, connectors for Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and Azure, and clients for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and Chrome covers most of what my thirty client networks need, and the encryption and protocol design is documented in detail. We found no public information on named relay regions or always-on and auto-connect behaviour, and an agentless option appears only as beta terms.
Identity, access policy & device posture
GoodAccess
Single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, JumpCloud and universal SAML, SCIM provisioning from Entra, MFA with PIN and biometrics, and per-app Access Cards with least-privilege assignment — a model I can defend to a client auditor. Device posture is unusually deep for this class: disk encryption, antivirus, firewall, registry keys and running services, re-checked every five minutes with non-compliant devices disconnected. We found no public information on posture checks fed from EDR or MDM tools, approval-based just-in-time access beyond the listed time-based permissions, or policies kept as code.
Twingate
Resource policies combine authentication, device security and location requirements, with posture checks from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Intune, Jamf, Kandji and others, native MFA applied per resource, access requests with approve and reject, authentication frequency from one hour to 31 days, and users and groups removed automatically when the identity provider is disconnected. Google Workspace works on all plans with further providers on Business and Enterprise; the captured pages do not name Entra ID or Okta explicitly, and we found no public information on continuous in-session evaluation or hardware-bound device identity.
Logs, audit trail & incident response
GoodAccess
Access logs record user account, source and target IP, timestamp and data volume, admin and gateway access logs exist, and everything streams as JSON over Syslog with TLS to Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic and others at one-minute intervals — enough to put in front of a client after an incident. Retention is 90 days on the standard tiers, custom on Enterprise. We found no public information on retention of a year or more, CSV export, or a documented log schema.
Twingate
Audit logs cover create, edit, delete and connect events across access, devices, policies and users, with a documented JSON schema, export from the admin console, sync to an AWS S3 bucket every five minutes and routes into Datadog, syslog and via Vector into Splunk and others — exactly what I need to show a client after an incident. We found no public information on how long logs are kept per plan or on alerts for unusual access, and real-time connection logging on connectors must be enabled.
Deployment, API & administration
GoodAccess
MSI deployment with silent-install, auto-update and protocol switches rolls out through MDM, the REST API takes scoped bearer tokens with IP allow-listing and a Postman collection, setup is quoted at ten minutes, and support runs chat and email with 24/7 phone at Enterprise. As a service provider with thirty tenants, what holds the score down is that we found no public information on a multi-tenant console with a tenant per client, per-tenant billing, Terraform or configuration as code, granular admin roles, or a self-hosted edition — the platform is described as 100% SaaS.
Twingate
A GraphQL admin API with token permission levels and IP restrictions, Terraform and Pulumi providers, a Kubernetes operator, and above all a multi-tenant MSP portal where I create Customer Networks, assign admins and get consolidated monthly billing per client with a 14-day free proof of concept per network — that is the console I want. We found no public information on client deployment through MDM such as Intune or Jamf, on granular admin roles beyond network admin assignment, or on staged client and gateway update rollouts.
Architecture, reliability & security assurance
GoodAccess
The documentation publishes a real architecture overview — the Team as secure perimeter, a dedicated cloud Gateway, Systems defined by protocol, IP and port — and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification is stated, with an SLA document listed among the resources. Encryption is described only in general terms, and we found no public information on published audit or penetration-test reports, a public status page, incident history, or what happens to existing connections when the control plane is down.
Twingate
The architecture is published down to which component sees what: client and connector on the customer side, relays and controller with Twingate, the controller never touching data flow, and an encryption design where relays cannot decrypt traffic, backed by certificate-pinned TLS tunnels and session keys, with the controller described as fully redundant and clustered. A SOC 2 report, trust center, responsible disclosure policy and status page exist; the security whitepaper sits behind a form, and we found no public information on a bug bounty, open-source components, or whether existing connections survive a control-plane outage.
European sovereignty
GoodAccess
The one link in the chain the pages prove is the contracting entity: GoodAccess s.r.o., a Czech company with a registered company ID in Ústí nad Labem. Beyond the privacy policy and terms, we found no public information on where account data, identities, connection logs and configuration are stored, who runs the control plane infrastructure, which subprocessors sit behind it, or a published data processing agreement.
Twingate
Twingate Inc. is a Delaware corporation under California governing law, and personal data from the EEA, UK and Switzerland may be transferred and processed outside those areas under stated safeguards, with a data processing addendum, a published subprocessor list and a data protection representative in Cork, Zurich and London. We found no public information on where the control plane, logs or identities are hosted, and no European hosting option or self-hosted edition is described, so the chain runs through a US vendor.
Pricing transparency
GoodAccess
Per-user prices are public and quotable: Essential at $7 per user per month, minimum 5 users, Premium at $11 per user per month (the captured pages give different figures for Premium, $11 and $14), dedicated gateway at +$49 per month, additional connectors at $29 per month, 20% saved on annual billing, plus a free Starter plan and a 14-day trial with no card. Enterprise is priced "On Request" from 50 users. We found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum term, so for larger clients the final quote still needs a call.
Twingate
Tiers are public with their shape — Teams up to 100 users, Business up to 500 users with identity-provider provisioning, DNS filtering as an add-on — and the MSP portal offers consolidated monthly billing with a 14-day free proof of concept per customer network. The captured pages carry no per-user price figure at all, with unit pricing said to live in the order form, so I cannot quote a client thirty Business users without contacting the vendor first.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks GoodAccess and 5 pick Twingate. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is GoodAccess or Twingate European?
GoodAccess is European (EU-Made). Twingate is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do GoodAccess and Twingate have a free plan?
As of 6 Nov 2026, GoodAccess’s own pages state a free plan; Twingate’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.