3 categories · RankedTailscale
Tailscale is a connectivity platform that provides identity-based, zero trust access to network resources · tailscale.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare One is first at 53%.
Cloudflare One is first at 36%.
Zscaler Private Access is first at 63%.
Why models recommend it
“excellent for smaller environments and very easy to manage, though it's more of a zero-trust network access approach than a full enterprise ZTNA suite”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“primarily needs fast, developer-friendly connectivity rather than a general business ZTNA program”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Excellent for tech-forward or dev-heavy environments; extremely fast deployment, low overhead”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Best for: Technical teams and developers. Uses WireGuard for peer-to-peer mesh networking.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Pure mesh VPNs like Tailscale — Good for engineering teams but less suited for general B2B workforce zero trust”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Tailscale, over the 92 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | 37 | View → | |
| 64 | 22 | View → | |
| 42 | 7 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Tailscale →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Tailscale's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- devs, IT, and security teams
- Price stated
- Pricing
- Starting price
- $0
- Free plan or trial
- Start free
- Integrations
- 100
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- multiple regions
- Customers named
- Instacart, Cribl, Mercury, Corelight, Notorious Studios, Yugabyte, Cobalt Speech, Bolt
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 73 of the 92 answers that named Tailscale and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
190 of the 209 domain citations in answers naming Tailscale came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 408 | 6 | 2026-09-22 | ZTNA, PAM | |
| Case study | 39 | 0 | 2022-07-01 | ||
| Comparison | 27 | 0 | 2026-06-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 2 | 2026-09-18 | PAM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | 0 | 2026-01-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2025-12-08 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2026-01-05 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2024-04-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2026-01-05 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22We're making Tailscale faster blog
- 2026-09-18What is Aperture? · Tailscale Docs glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-11Built in router nas vpns blog
- 2026-09-09Kubernetes operator 1102 blog
- 2026-08-31Tailcat: An open-source CLI for Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP blog
- 2026-08-31Easier building with tailscale blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page tailscale.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.