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See why teams choose Twingate over Tailscale
When JSON ACLs get unwieldy, when access requests pile up, when your auditor asks for posture checks — that's when teams move to Twingate.
When JSON ACLs get unwieldy, when access requests pile up, when your auditor asks for posture checks — that's when teams move to Twingate.
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Why choose Twingate over Tailscale?
Scalability
Twingate
Customers often point out that Tailscale doesn’t always scale smoothly in enterprises because of three main issues: first, its entire access policy lives in a single JSON file, which becomes hard to manage as teams and services grow; second, while it’s great for homelabs, larger orgs run into scalability challenges when that policy file and ACLs need to cover thousands of users and devices; and third, you have to deploy the Tailscale client on every resource to get full per-host identity, which adds operational overhead unless you rely on subnet routers or automation.
Tailscale
Difficulty maintaining JSON file.
Tailscale is well-suited for home lab users, but may face challenges with enterprise scalability, particularly around the YAML file scaling.
Tailscale needs to be deployed individually on ALL resources
Ease of Use
Twingate
Overall simplicity and intuitiveness of Twingate, including for the more technical feature sets like the K8s Operator, and Connector deployment options
Tailscale
Tailscale’s permission management system is entirely based on a single ACL file (JSON-formatted), it’s much harder to maintain and modify than assigning or removing permissions in Twingate.
Features
Twingate
DNS Twingate supports native internal DNS instead of layering MFA- Twingate supports Universal MFA Administration- most of Tailscale’s setup involves manipulating config files, or in the case of Access Control, a central JSON file.
Tailscale
DNS- Tailscale MagicDNS is layered on top of an overlay network MFA-Tailscale relies on idP MFA Administration- Simple, intuitive graphical UI, no coding needed.
Bottom line
Tailscale is great for getting a small team or homelab connected fast. Past ~50 users, three things start to break: the JSON ACL file becomes a single point of failure that nobody wants to touch, the flat tailnet makes least-privilege hard to prove to an auditor, and posture checks lag what enterprise security teams expect. Twingate solves for that audience from day one — GUI-driven policies, deny-by-default with EDR/MDM signal, gateway-based segmentation, and the IaC, SCIM, and audit logs your security review will ask for.
The Twingate Zero Trust Platform
Zero Trust Network Access
Remote access built for the modern workforce
Remote access built for the modern workforce
Remotely access the office network, cloud VPCs, and other private resources.
Powerful, automated access controls at the network layer.
Precisely control access based on specific device requirements.
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Bob Bousquet
Director of IT
“Twingate had faster speeds than any other solution we evaluated. They make zero trust easy and our users are loving the experience.”
Luis Zaldivar
SRE Manager
“We got set up in literally 30 minutes and Twingate has easily scaled to manage our most complex workflows. Even our engineers love it - and that's a high bar.”
Emery Wells
CEO
“Our old VPN was giving us serious issues and causing flaky Zoom calls with everyone working remotely. It drove me and my team crazy. Twingate couldn't come soon enough.”
Christian Trummer
CTO
“We evaluated several competing vendors for zero trust and Twingate was clearly the easiest to deploy. We got Twingate up in minutes.”
Paul Guthrie
Information Security Officer
“We've invested heavily in automation at Blend and Twingate is a powerful platform that allows us to programmatically deploy and maintain a zero trust approach to our infrastructure.”
Cameron Perry
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
“I was waiting for the ball to drop, it was almost too easy. Twingate just worked like magic.”
Neel Palrecha
CTO
“WFH made it clear that our old solution wasn't going to scale. We were surprised at how easy it was to get Twingate up, and we're excited to roll it out to the whole company.“
Joey Benamy
Senior SRE
Implementing and managing Twingate is a DevOps engineer's dream. From highly relevant and technical documentation to solid IaC providers… the team at Twingate have made it so easy to deploy and automate Twingate at any scale.
Stuart Robinson
CTO & Co-founder
“When a product works, you don’t notice it — it just works. In the past, I’ve always known about when I’m on VPN because it’s annoying. It’s been very smooth sailing with Twingate. We don’t even notice it.”
Luis Zaldivar
SRE Manager
“We got set up in literally 30 minutes and Twingate has easily scaled to manage our most complex workflows. Even our engineers love it - and that's a high bar.”
Christian Trummer
CTO
“We evaluated several competing vendors for zero trust and Twingate was clearly the easiest to deploy. We got Twingate up in minutes.”
andrew-fong
CEO at Prodvana
Twingate solved our production access problems in less than a day.
We were able to get access to different k8s clusters in different VPCs without complex configurations. Getting that time back to focus on development was amazing.
Twingate helped us set up least privilege access controls in a much more streamlined way than any of us were used to. The sigh of relief when we realized we didn’t need to configure anything else in GCP was palpable. :)
They need to work on their marketing, but their product is phenomenal. If you are looking to ditch VPNs, check out Twingate.
mang-git-ng
CEO at Anvil
Anvil just implemented Twingate to manage our remote access controls. Best / easiest 15min spent securing our systems.
ian-calderbank
Network Architecture Consultant
Outbound tunnels only, no incoming attack surface exposed, tunnel stitching in their cloud, per device, per user and per application authorisation, integration with common major Identity providers, what's not to like.
It took me 20 minutes to get it working for a sample SME (myself). Docker to deploy the connector to an on-prem box (a NAS), all autoconfigured once the necessary authorisation keys were pasted in. Microsoft 365 for the identity, Linux packages for the endpoint.
Job done!
u-nimajalali
r/sysadmin contributor
Twingate has massive flexibility when it comes to routing. You can route by IP or DNS. They even let you get down to the protocol and port level. Mostly overkill but could be useful in a bind with older networks and older systems.
a-k-singh
@itsatulkumar
VPNs were good until Twingate arrived. Such an impressive tool.
joey-benamy
SRE, OncoLens
Implementing and managing Twingate is a devops engineer's dream. From highly relevant and technical documentation to solid IaC providers, Peter Ahn, Tony Huie, Alex M. and the team at Twingate have made it so easy to deploy and automate Twingate at any scale. OncoLens is looking forward to getting more users and resources on Twingate and trying out the upcoming features on the roadmap! #devops #sase #zerotrust
alex-bovee
CEO at ConductorOne
Push Verification and TOTP just aren’t good enough anymore. Webauthn / FIDO2 authenticators such as Yubikeys (Yubico) are the solve for phishing as they’re cryptographically verified against the issuing domain. They’re pretty close to perfect authenticators.
The problem is that many existing tools, like VPNs, control the credential verification and depend on protocols such as RADIUS to authenticate users. This means Push and TOTP are the “best” multi-factor verification methods we have – but they are clearly vulnerable to at-scale phishing and social engineering attacks. There are companies that are solving this problem – Twingate and Tailscale are two great examples. They let you embrace both better credential verification natively and IdP led flows for authenticating users.
All up, it’s scary to see the impact of the Uber hack, but I am optimistic that we’re making the right investments as an industry to help companies be more secure.
robbert-r
@RobbertR1971
Experimenting with Twingate in combination with a Pi clone. First impression is very good. What a relief compared to the setup of a regular VPN.
erik-caligo
ErikCaligo
I've tried Twingate in my home lab, since I was fed up with the abysmal performance of VPN, and I must say, I was more than positively surprised by the performance. Even with a sketchy connection, I could work with Remote Desktop set at full quality.
Furthermore, you can create security policies and device checks (e.g. only allow Windows machines that with enabled firewall, hard drive encryption, and antivirus installed), 2FA for every connection attempt, etc.
You don't even have to open a port in your firewall for this, since you'll install a connector within your network that opens a secure outbound connection for which then is matched with the client outside your network.
frank
@CompWizard18219
Twingate works amazing. I use it to access my Plex media server outside of my home network!
vishal-k-c
Security Researcher | Aspiring Pentester | Red Team| Newbie | SIEM | Seceon | SolarWinds | NOC | SOC | Nessus | Nexpose |
to be honest, I think it is better to switch to Zero Trust ,though it comes with the risk , we need to be taking the proper action for the prevention of exploitation,
I recently saw NetworkChuck has showed a ZT With the Collab with Twingate which provide a next level of ZT .
I think ZT is gonna be the upgrade and easy way for VPN replacement for sure.
Cameron Perry
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
“I was waiting for the ball to drop, it was almost too easy. Twingate just worked like magic.”
Neel Palrecha
CTO
“WFH made it clear that our old solution wasn't going to scale. We were surprised at how easy it was to get Twingate up, and we're excited to roll it out to the whole company.“
Joey Benamy
Senior SRE
Implementing and managing Twingate is a DevOps engineer's dream. From highly relevant and technical documentation to solid IaC providers… the team at Twingate have made it so easy to deploy and automate Twingate at any scale.
Stuart Robinson
CTO & Co-founder
“When a product works, you don’t notice it — it just works. In the past, I’ve always known about when I’m on VPN because it’s annoying. It’s been very smooth sailing with Twingate. We don’t even notice it.”
Luis Zaldivar
SRE Manager
“We got set up in literally 30 minutes and Twingate has easily scaled to manage our most complex workflows. Even our engineers love it - and that's a high bar.”
Christian Trummer
CTO
“We evaluated several competing vendors for zero trust and Twingate was clearly the easiest to deploy. We got Twingate up in minutes.”
Bob Bousquet
Director of IT
“Twingate had faster speeds than any other solution we evaluated. They make zero trust easy and our users are loving the experience.”
Luis Zaldivar
SRE Manager
“We got set up in literally 30 minutes and Twingate has easily scaled to manage our most complex workflows. Even our engineers love it - and that's a high bar.”
Emery Wells
CEO
“Our old VPN was giving us serious issues and causing flaky Zoom calls with everyone working remotely. It drove me and my team crazy. Twingate couldn't come soon enough.”
Christian Trummer
CTO
“We evaluated several competing vendors for zero trust and Twingate was clearly the easiest to deploy. We got Twingate up in minutes.”
Paul Guthrie
Information Security Officer
“We've invested heavily in automation at Blend and Twingate is a powerful platform that allows us to programmatically deploy and maintain a zero trust approach to our infrastructure.”
andrew-fong
CEO at Prodvana
Twingate solved our production access problems in less than a day.
We were able to get access to different k8s clusters in different VPCs without complex configurations. Getting that time back to focus on development was amazing.
Twingate helped us set up least privilege access controls in a much more streamlined way than any of us were used to. The sigh of relief when we realized we didn’t need to configure anything else in GCP was palpable. :)
They need to work on their marketing, but their product is phenomenal. If you are looking to ditch VPNs, check out Twingate.mang-git-ng
CEO at Anvil
Anvil just implemented Twingate to manage our remote access controls. Best / easiest 15min spent securing our systems.
ian-calderbank
Network Architecture Consultant
Outbound tunnels only, no incoming attack surface exposed, tunnel stitching in their cloud, per device, per user and per application authorisation, integration with common major Identity providers, what's not to like.
It took me 20 minutes to get it working for a sample SME (myself). Docker to deploy the connector to an on-prem box (a NAS), all autoconfigured once the necessary authorisation keys were pasted in. Microsoft 365 for the identity, Linux packages for the endpoint.
Job done!u-nimajalali
r/sysadmin contributor
Twingate has massive flexibility when it comes to routing. You can route by IP or DNS. They even let you get down to the protocol and port level. Mostly overkill but could be useful in a bind with older networks and older systems.
a-k-singh
@itsatulkumar
VPNs were good until Twingate arrived. Such an impressive tool.
joey-benamy
SRE, OncoLens
Implementing and managing Twingate is a devops engineer's dream. From highly relevant and technical documentation to solid IaC providers, Peter Ahn, Tony Huie, Alex M. and the team at Twingate have made it so easy to deploy and automate Twingate at any scale. OncoLens is looking forward to getting more users and resources on Twingate and trying out the upcoming features on the roadmap! #devops #sase #zerotrust
alex-bovee
CEO at ConductorOne
Push Verification and TOTP just aren’t good enough anymore. Webauthn / FIDO2 authenticators such as Yubikeys (Yubico) are the solve for phishing as they’re cryptographically verified against the issuing domain. They’re pretty close to perfect authenticators.
The problem is that many existing tools, like VPNs, control the credential verification and depend on protocols such as RADIUS to authenticate users. This means Push and TOTP are the “best” multi-factor verification methods we have – but they are clearly vulnerable to at-scale phishing and social engineering attacks. There are companies that are solving this problem – Twingate and Tailscale are two great examples. They let you embrace both better credential verification natively and IdP led flows for authenticating users.
All up, it’s scary to see the impact of the Uber hack, but I am optimistic that we’re making the right investments as an industry to help companies be more secure.robbert-r
@RobbertR1971
Experimenting with Twingate in combination with a Pi clone. First impression is very good. What a relief compared to the setup of a regular VPN.
erik-caligo
ErikCaligo
I've tried Twingate in my home lab, since I was fed up with the abysmal performance of VPN, and I must say, I was more than positively surprised by the performance. Even with a sketchy connection, I could work with Remote Desktop set at full quality.
Furthermore, you can create security policies and device checks (e.g. only allow Windows machines that with enabled firewall, hard drive encryption, and antivirus installed), 2FA for every connection attempt, etc.
You don't even have to open a port in your firewall for this, since you'll install a connector within your network that opens a secure outbound connection for which then is matched with the client outside your network.
frank
@CompWizard18219
Twingate works amazing. I use it to access my Plex media server outside of my home network!
vishal-k-c
Security Researcher | Aspiring Pentester | Red Team| Newbie | SIEM | Seceon | SolarWinds | NOC | SOC | Nessus | Nexpose |
to be honest, I think it is better to switch to Zero Trust ,though it comes with the risk , we need to be taking the proper action for the prevention of exploitation,
I recently saw NetworkChuck has showed a ZT With the Collab with Twingate which provide a next level of ZT .
I think ZT is gonna be the upgrade and easy way for VPN replacement for sure.
Cameron Perry
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
“I was waiting for the ball to drop, it was almost too easy. Twingate just worked like magic.”
Neel Palrecha
CTO
“WFH made it clear that our old solution wasn't going to scale. We were surprised at how easy it was to get Twingate up, and we're excited to roll it out to the whole company.“
Joey Benamy
Senior SRE
Implementing and managing Twingate is a DevOps engineer's dream. From highly relevant and technical documentation to solid IaC providers… the team at Twingate have made it so easy to deploy and automate Twingate at any scale.
Stuart Robinson
CTO & Co-founder
“When a product works, you don’t notice it — it just works. In the past, I’ve always known about when I’m on VPN because it’s annoying. It’s been very smooth sailing with Twingate. We don’t even notice it.”
Luis Zaldivar
SRE Manager
“We got set up in literally 30 minutes and Twingate has easily scaled to manage our most complex workflows. Even our engineers love it - and that's a high bar.”
Christian Trummer
CTO
“We evaluated several competing vendors for zero trust and Twingate was clearly the easiest to deploy. We got Twingate up in minutes.”
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