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by KMnO4 1164 days ago
TL;DR

- Free plan (previously called personal) now let’s you have up to 3 team members

- 100 devices

- Monthly paid plan also now includes 3 free users

- Additional users are PAYG

Very refreshing to see a company give more free stuff after adjusting their plans. Usually you see the opposite.

2 comments

TailScale is still small. They probably identified that their pricing plan was preventing them from user acquisition and/or they are having pressure from competition and thus are trying to flood the market to become the de facto solution.

It’s a pretty common play for a smaller startup. They just broke the 1B valuation last year. Could be the board pushing the executive team to grow the number of users because happy free tier customers tend to convert to paygo at some non 0% just as paygo customers convert to ENT contracts at some non 0% as personal projects grow into businesses and smaller businesses grow into large ones.

I'm going to get my son to use the three user plan when he runs a minecraft server and has a friend log in, it's a better answer than screwing around with the NAT, DMZ and all that.
Even without this change, if you can get the other folks to use Tailscale you can share out devices. So he doesn't need to manage other users, they can create their own accounts and access his server.
Yes, that's the one.