Is Twingate a Good Fit for a 100-User Business?
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MellowQuill47
Our insurance renewal is making us rethink our current VPN setup and has recommended several replacement options. I tested Twingate and it works well, but the $10-per-user-per-month pricing adds up quickly for roughly 100 employees. I also haven't seen many large organizations discussing it, so I'm unsure how well it scales.
Some employees only need access to a few internal resources, while others—particularly senior staff—need a straightforward way to RDP into office systems. Has anyone deployed Twingate or a similar zero-trust access product at this size? I'm interested in reliability, administration, pricing, and alternatives worth evaluating.
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We’ve used Twingate for roughly 50 users for two or three years, with RDP being the main workload. The client has been reliable and needed very little customization or packaging. For a business of around 100 users, I’d be comfortable considering it, but I’d still confirm the licensing tiers and whether every user needs a paid seat.
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Twingate isn’t the only enterprise-oriented option. Appgate may be worth comparing if you want something positioned more toward larger organizations, and Extreme’s ZTNA/NAC offerings can be attractive if you also need network-access control. Cloudflare and Zscaler are common alternatives, although some teams find Twingate easier to deploy and maintain. Build a small pilot around your actual RDP and resource-access patterns before committing.
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There are several different zero-trust architectures, so compare more than just the feature lists. Cloud proxy products route traffic through the vendor, while mesh-overlay products can establish direct connections without exposing inbound ports or requiring you to run an edge appliance. Twingate is simple and easy to operate, but Tailscale, NetBird, and ZeroTier are also worth testing. NetBird can be self-hosted if keeping control of the coordination service matters.
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I’d separate the use cases rather than force one product to solve everything. Use ZTNA for employees who only need a few internal applications or resources, and consider RDS, hosted desktops, or a similar setup for applications that perform poorly over a WAN connection. RDP can be a perfectly reasonable requirement when the application or data needs to stay inside the office; the key is securing it with strong identity controls and MFA instead of exposing it directly.
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We used Twingate for around 60 employees, including staff across multiple offices. It was very low maintenance. We managed access through identity-provider groups, and SCIM handled most of the provisioning and removal. Once the resources were configured, administration was largely set-and-forget, which worked especially well for a small IT team.
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