Business VPN & Zero Trust Access · Alternatives
Tailscale alternatives
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates Defguard (3.5/5), Firezone (3.5/5) and Cloudflare Zero Trust (3.5/5) highest among the other 12 Business VPN & Zero Trust Access products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Defguard (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
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European alternatives to Tailscale
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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Defguard
EU-MadePanel rating
Defguard is a self-hosted WireGuard VPN with a built-in identity provider and MFA, from Defguard Sp.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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GoodAccess
EU-MadePanel rating
GoodAccess is a business VPN and zero trust network access platform from GoodAccess s.r.o., a Czech company.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026
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NCP Secure Enterprise
EU-MadePanel rating
NCP Secure Enterprise is a centrally managed, software-based IPsec VPN with a zero trust layer from NCP engineering GmbH of Nuremberg, documented to run fully on-premises, with cloud and hybrid options also described.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Proton VPN for Business
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Proton VPN for Business is a gateway VPN from Proton AG in Geneva: clients egress through shared servers or leased dedicated IPs and private gateways in 20+ countries, on WireGuard or OpenVPN, under single sign-on, SCIM and enforced two-factor.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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NetBird
EU-MadePanel rating
NetBird is a business VPN and zero-trust access service from NetBird GmbH of Berlin, contracting under German law, with an optional hosted reverse proxy.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
Other alternatives
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Firezone
Rest of worldPanel rating
Firezone is an open-source zero trust access platform built on WireGuard, with weighted totals ranging from 6.8 to 7.0.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026
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Cloudflare Zero Trust
Rest of worldPanel rating
Cloudflare Zero Trust scored strongest on identity and policy and access and connectivity, both at 7 to 8: the bench credits deny-by-default per-application policies built from Include, Require and Exclude rules, single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, Google, Okta and GitHub, SCIM revocation that forces re-attestation, agentless browser access, and encryption documented down to MASQUE over TLS 1.3 with hybrid ML-KEM.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026
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Twingate
Rest of worldPanel rating
Twingate, a zero trust access service, is scored strongest on identity and policy at 8: authentication is always delegated to the customer's identity provider, disconnecting that provider removes all synced users and groups, posture checks read from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Intune and Jamf, and re-authentication windows run from one hour to 31 days.
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OpenVPN CloudConnexa
Rest of worldPanel rating
OpenVPN CloudConnexa is a cloud-delivered VPN and zero-trust access service.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026
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Netmaker
Rest of worldPanel rating
Netmaker is an open-source virtual networking platform built on WireGuard.
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ZeroTier
Rest of worldPanel rating
ZeroTier is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN judged strongest on deployment and administration, where scores sit at 7: a Terraform provider, documented APIs, Intune silent-install rollout and a self-hosted, air-gapped Enterprise edition.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026
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NordLayer
Rest of worldPanel rating
NordLayer, a business VPN and zero trust access service from Nord Security Inc., scored highest on identity and policy, 6 to 7, and access and connectivity, 6 to 7.