VPN & remote access

Headscale

Self-hosted control server for the Tailscale clients.

open source self-hostable Headscale project · ?

Keep the excellent Tailscale apps and replace the coordination server with your own.

Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “VPN & remote access” with it

How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	Headscale project (jurisdiction unknown)
Licence	BSD-3-Clause
Self-hosting footprint	128 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 0 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	Tailscale
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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