Infrastructure & DevOps
Tailscale
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Tailscale is a VPN service that connects devices, servers, and software into a private network.
Is Tailscale production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Tailscale 85 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Tailscale (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 61/100
- Accessibility — 86/100
- Security — 90/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 73/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 172 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Teams and enterprises · DevOps engineers · Kubernetes administrators · Security-focused organizations · IoT and edge device managers
Pricing
Free forever (up to 6 users); Standard $8/user/month; Premium $18/user/month; Enterprise custom pricing; Add-ons from $1-5/month