How much does OpenVPN cost?

OpenVPN publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Access Server Free up to On request for Access Server Enterprise/IoT. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Access Server Free and Access Server Growth on OpenVPN?

Access Server Growth costs $7/month against Free, and adds per simultaneous connection beyond the free tier, annual billing.

Is the Access Server Enterprise/IoT plan on OpenVPN worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing for 2,000+ connections. It costs On request against $7/month for Access Server Growth. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which networking tools can I use without paying?

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

Does OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN against before paying?

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

Networking · pricing

OpenVPN pricing

OpenVPN 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 1 September 2026, OpenVPN 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: Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

OpenVPN 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.

OpenVPN pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Access Server Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Access Server Growth	$7/month	2	+$7/month, 2 more features
Access Server Enterprise/IoT	On request	1	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.

Access Server Free

Free

The entry tier. It covers up to 2 simultaneous connections, all features included.

Access Server Growth

$7/month

Over Access Server Free, this tier adds:

Per simultaneous connection beyond the free tier
Annual billing

Access Server Enterprise/IoT

On request

Over Access Server Growth, this tier adds:

Custom pricing for 2,000+ connections

Where OpenVPN stops being free

Access Server Free, Free

Up to 2 simultaneous connections
All features included

Access Server Growth, $7/month

The first thing you pay for:

Per simultaneous connection beyond the free tier
Annual billing

What the product covers

The full OpenVPN 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

Open source core
Access Server admin UI
Per-connection licensing
Free tier
Cross-platform clients

People bring OpenVPN in for a technical team wanting a fully free, self-configured vpn server using the open source protocol without any vendor relationship, a small business wanting a supported, easier-to-administer vpn server, willing to pay per concurrent connection rather than per employee, an organisation with more staff than typical concurrent vpn usage, since access server bills only active simultaneous connections, not total accounts, an iot or large-scale deployment needing custom enterprise pricing above 2,000 connections. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OpenVPN 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.

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

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 OpenVPN badges page.

Before you pay for OpenVPN

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.

OpenVPN runs on linux, windows, macos, ios, android, and is published by OpenVPN Inc of Pleasanton, California, United States. The full record is on the OpenVPN review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.

OpenVPN pricing on the vendor's own site

OpenVPN pricing questions

How much does OpenVPN cost?: OpenVPN publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Access Server Free up to On request for Access Server Enterprise/IoT. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does OpenVPN have a free plan?: Yes. The Access Server Free tier costs nothing and covers up to 2 simultaneous connections, all features included. Paying starts at $7/month for Access Server Growth.
What is the difference between Access Server Free and Access Server Growth on OpenVPN?: Access Server Growth costs $7/month against Free, and adds per simultaneous connection beyond the free tier, annual billing.
Is the Access Server Enterprise/IoT plan on OpenVPN worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing for 2,000+ connections. It costs On request against $7/month for Access Server Growth. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which networking tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside OpenVPN have a free tier: Icinga, pfSense, ZeroTier.
What am I actually paying for with OpenVPN?: The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a technical team wanting a fully free, self-configured vpn server using the open source protocol without any vendor relationship, a small business wanting a supported, easier-to-administer vpn server, willing to pay per concurrent connection rather than per employee, an organisation with more staff than typical concurrent vpn usage, since access server bills only active simultaneous connections, not total accounts.
Does OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN against before paying?: The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OpenVPN covering price, platforms and features.