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Networking you never have to think about, priced for pre-revenue

The OpenVLAN startup program gives early-stage teams Premium features free for a year. Because your infrastructure person should be building the product, not the VPN.

Your "infrastructure person" is building the product

At seed stage, whoever understands networking best is probably also writing the core service. The startup program exists so that person spends the year on product: Premium features free for 12 months, and the network piece quietly handled.

  • ✓Unlimited users, SCIM, session recording — free while small
  • ✓Monthly office hours with our engineers
  • ✓Graduate with 20% off year one, no cliff
your tailnet · month 3
laptops8 founders + engineersSSO ✓ONLINE
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tickets filednetwork-related0ZERO

Demo from a café, due-diligence without the shrug

Every environment is reachable by name from anywhere — you demo staging at the customer's office and debug prod from a train. And when the investor asks "how do you control access?", the answer is a policy file and an audit log, not a paragraph of hand-waving.

# the whole security posture, versioned
acls[{
  src: ["group:team"],
  dst: ["tag:staging:*", "tag:prod:22"]
}]
 
# screenshot that for the data room

What's in the program

Premium free for 12 months

Unlimited users, SCIM, session recording, audit export — the works, on the house while you're small.

Office hours

Monthly time with our engineers for architecture questions — mesh design, CI connectivity, whatever's stuck.

Scale pricing later

Graduate to a paid plan with 20% off year one. No cliff, no surprise invoice.

Who qualifies

  • ✓Fewer than 20 employees
  • ✓Less than $2M raised
  • ✓Building something with a network in it (so: everything)

Already past that?

The free Personal plan still covers 3 users and 100 devices forever, and Starter is $6/user/mo. Plenty of funded startups run on it happily until SCIM matters.

See pricing →

Why startups pick us

Day-one onboarding

New hire logs in with SSO, installs the client, done. No tickets during your busiest weeks.

Staging from the café

Every environment reachable by name from anywhere — demo at a customer, debug from a train.

Investor-ready answers

"How do you control access?" is a policy file and an audit log, not a shrug.

Startup program FAQs

How long does approval take?
Usually same-week. The application is two minutes — what you're building, team size, funding stage — and we reply within five business days either way.
What happens when the year ends?
You move to a paid plan at 20% off year one, or drop to the free tier if that's enough. Either way there's no cliff — your network keeps running while you decide.
We're pre-seed with three people — worth it?
The free Personal plan already covers you, and the program adds Premium features you'll want around Series A. Apply when the timing's right; the qualification bar is deliberately low.
Does the free year include support?
Yes — priority support channel plus monthly office hours with engineers who work on the product itself. Startup-friendly response times, no enterprise pricing.
Can our whole team join the tailnet?
Unlimited users on Premium during the program — founders, engineers, contractors, even the advisor who "just needs to see the dashboard once."

Ship product, not VPN tickets

Apply in two minutes; approvals usually same-week.