How much does NetBird cost?

NetBird publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Self hosted up to On request for Cloud Team. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Self hosted and Cloud Free on NetBird?

Cloud Free costs Free against Free, and adds hosted management and relays, small user and peer allowance, identity provider integration.

Which networking tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside NetBird have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.

Does NetBird charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these NetBird prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare NetBird against before paying?

The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with NetBird covering price, platforms and features.

Networking · pricing

NetBird pricing

NetBird publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 31 August 2026, NetBird pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Per user per month
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

NetBird plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

NetBird pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Self hosted	Free	4	Entry tier
Cloud Free	Free	3	+$0/month, 3 more features
Cloud Team	On request	4	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Self hosted

Free

The entry tier. It covers full functionality under an open source licence, no peer or user limit, you operate management, signal and relay, community support.

Cloud Free

Free

Over Self hosted, this tier adds:

Hosted management and relays
Small user and peer allowance
Identity provider integration

Cloud Team

On request

Over Cloud Free, this tier adds:

Per user per month billing
Managed global relay footprint
Posture checks and activity events
Vendor support

Where NetBird stops being free

Self hosted, Free

Full functionality under an open source licence
No peer or user limit
You operate management, signal and relay
Community support

No paid tier on record

NetBird lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full NetBird feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

WireGuard data plane
NAT traversal with relay fallback
Identity based access control
Network routes
Posture checks
Full self hosting

People bring NetBird in for replacing a vpn concentrator that backhauls all traffic through one office, giving contractors access to two specific services rather than to a subnet, connecting workloads across several clouds without peering vpcs or managing route tables, meeting a requirement that the network control plane must run inside your own infrastructure. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to NetBird are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Networking

Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

NetBird entry price against other Networking tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
NetBird (this page)	Free	Per user per month	-
MikroTik RouterOS	On request	One-time purchase, per licence level	-	vs NetBird
Cisco Meraki	On request	quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence	-	vs NetBird
PRTG Network Monitor	On request	Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract	-	vs NetBird
OpenVPN	Free	Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection	-	vs NetBird
Icinga	Free	Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately	-	vs NetBird
pfSense	Free	Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate	-	vs NetBird

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the NetBird badges page.

Before you pay for NetBird

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

NetBird runs on linux, macos, windows, ios, android, docker, and is published by NetBird GmbH of Berlin, Germany. The full record is on the NetBird review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.

NetBird pricing on the vendor's own site

NetBird pricing questions

How much does NetBird cost?: NetBird publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Self hosted up to On request for Cloud Team. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does NetBird have a free plan?: Yes. The Self hosted tier costs nothing and covers full functionality under an open source licence, no peer or user limit, you operate management, signal and relay.
What is the difference between Self hosted and Cloud Free on NetBird?: Cloud Free costs Free against Free, and adds hosted management and relays, small user and peer allowance, identity provider integration.
Which networking tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside NetBird have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
What am I actually paying for with NetBird?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for replacing a vpn concentrator that backhauls all traffic through one office, giving contractors access to two specific services rather than to a subnet, connecting workloads across several clouds without peering vpcs or managing route tables.
Does NetBird charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these NetBird prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare NetBird against before paying?: The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with NetBird covering price, platforms and features.