VPN & remote access
NetBird
Open-source mesh VPN from Berlin.
open source self-hostable hosted in Europe NetBird GmbH · DEWireGuard-based peer-to-peer network with a self-hostable control plane or a German-hosted cloud.
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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. |
| Hosted in Europe | servers in Europe, run by a European company | ≈ €5/mo per seat | yellow — European company, European servers, but someone else runs it. |
Facts
| Company / project | NetBird GmbH (DE) |
|---|---|
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Tailscale, ZeroTier |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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