netbird.io

NetBird

Who runs NetBird, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest zero trust network access alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Netmaker

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs NetBird

NetBird netbird.io

WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

Wikidata: open-source overlay VPN

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What NetBird tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

9 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to NetBird

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to NetBird, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than NetBirdNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to NetBird match.

  1. 01
    Proton proton.me Top 10K English No trackers

    Proton: Privacy by default

    Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

    Compare Proton with NetBird →
  2. 02
    Mullvad mullvad.net English No trackers

    Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people

    Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.

    Compare Mullvad with NetBird →
  3. 03
    Sentinel sentinel.co English No trackers

    Sentinel — Build your own decentralized VPN.

    Sentinel is a Layer-1 decentralized bandwidth network. Bring your protocol, your client, your distribution — we handle the network.

    Compare Sentinel with NetBird →
  4. 04
    hide.me English No trackers

    World's Fastest VPN and Privacy Protection | hide.me

    Surf the web securely without third-parties spying on you.

    Compare hide.me with NetBird →
  5. 05
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English No trackers

    NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet

    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

    Compare NextDNS with NetBird →
  6. 06
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English No trackers

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

    Compare Syncthing with NetBird →
  7. 07
    Baserow baserow.io English No trackers

    No-code open source database & application builder | Baserow

    Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!

    Compare Baserow with NetBird →
  8. 08
    Appwrite appwrite.io English No trackers

    Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents

    Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.

    Compare Appwrite with NetBird →
  9. 09
    Mysterium mysterium.network Top 10K English No trackers

    Open Web Protocol - Mysterium Network

    An open-source ecosystem of protocols, tools and infrastructure to liberate the web. Our node network empowers both builders and users to access free information.

    Compare Mysterium with NetBird →
  10. 10
    Mozilla mozilla.org Top 100 English No trackers

    Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)

    We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.

    Compare Mozilla with NetBird →
  11. 11
    Lantern lantern.io English No trackers

    Lantern VPN: Nonprofit VPN for fast, private, unrestricted internet access

    Nonprofit VPN trusted by 250+ million people. Fast, private internet access that bypasses censorship. Free to start, Pro funds open access in censored regions.

    Compare Lantern with NetBird →
  12. 12
    Pi-hole pi-hole.net English No trackers

    Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

    ad- and tracker-blocking application

    Compare Pi-hole with NetBird →
  13. 13
    Emby emby.media English No trackers

    Emby — Your Personal Media Server

    Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams your own videos, music, photos, and live TV to your devices.

    Compare Emby with NetBird →
  14. 14
    Raindrop.io raindrop.io English No trackers

    Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager

    For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff

    Compare Raindrop.io with NetBird →
  15. 15
    Grafana grafana.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs

    Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud, the AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.

    Compare Grafana with NetBird →
  16. 16
    Countly countly.com English No trackers

    Countly · Product intelligence as infrastructure

    Private product intelligence across all your data. Analytics, engagement and AI in one platform you can self-host on your own infrastructure.

    Compare Countly with NetBird →
  17. 17
    Penpot penpot.app English No trackers

    Penpot: The open-source design platform for teams.

    Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.

    Compare Penpot with NetBird →
  18. 18
    Firefox firefox.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com

    The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.

    Compare Firefox with NetBird →
  19. 19
    OVHcloud ovhcloud.com Top 10K English No trackers

    OVHcloud

    OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

    Compare OVHcloud with NetBird →
  20. 20
    Deno deno.com English No trackers

    Deno, the drop-in JavaScript runtime for Node developers

    A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.

    Compare Deno with NetBird →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles NetBird’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones NetBird uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what NetBird adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
50 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to NetBird’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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