Legit.Show measured Tailscale's Security frame at 90/100. Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Tailscale?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Infrastructure & DevOps

Tailscale

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-21 — deterministic & reproducible

Tailscale is a VPN service that connects devices, servers, and software into a private network.

84/100

7/7 frames

Top 30% of 14,138 measured · #5 of 8 in vpn service

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-21 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Tailscale 84/100 on 2026-09-21, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/tailscale-com/2026-09-21

Is Tailscale production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Tailscale 84 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 — 38/100
Accessibility — 86/100
Security — 90/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 86/100
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 — 179 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 built it

Avery Pennarun · product account @Tailscale

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

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from tailscale.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: Tailscale, as named in tailscale.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-21.

Put together from public information, without Tailscale's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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