ZeroTier

zerotier.com · Egress and tunnels, Storage · 3 records · JSON

ZeroTier Egress and tunnelscaveatemailno cardDrequest-rate
ZeroTier free (Personal) Storagefails: quotaemailno cardR
zerotier free as a storage mesh Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

ZeroTier Egress and tunnels

caveatemailno cardDrequest-rate

www.zerotier.com/pricing/ · mesh network · egress/zerotier-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	10 devices, 1 network, 1 administrator unit users; metered on identity-count
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	signalling; peer-to-peer once connected, with a relay fallback whose rate is not published
Identity	email a ZeroTier account
Binding	request-rate
Interface	cli zerotier-cli join
Tooling	zerotier-one
Composes with	signalling for a small private mesh; it composes with the client's own devices and carries no bytes once they connect.
Reliability	the free plan caps devices, not bytes
Notes	2026-10-23: no public ingress, in the vendor's own words. The hosting guide says ZeroTier 'enables private networking between devices, allowing you to host a website locally and serve it securely to peers on the same ZeroTier network'. Its UDP 9993 listener is for peer transport, not for a reader, so the free plan's cap on devices is the only meter and there is no 1 TiB/month to spend.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.zerotier.com/pricing/	10 devices, 1 network and 1 admin on the free plan
2026-10-23	docs.zerotier.com/website/	'ZeroTier enables private networking between devices, allowing you to host a website locally and serve it securely to peers on the same ZeroTier network.'

More fields (3)

{
 "stale_after_days": 180,
 "bytes_transit": "conditional",
 "transit_note": "peer-to-peer once connected, with a relay fallback at an unpublished rate"
}

ZeroTier free (Personal) Storage

fails: quotaemailno cardR

www.zerotier.com/llms-full.txt · mesh-control-plane · storage/zerotier-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	10 devices, 1 network, non-commercial use. Vendor table effective 20 Oct 2026: 'Personal \| Free \| 10 \| Not available'. unit mixed; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	free, peer-to-peer; relaying only when the path fails.
Identity	email email
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, cli virtual L2/L3 overlay, REST API, Terraform provider, CLI.
Tooling	zerotier-one agent; central controller is now separately licensed (the default `make` build no longer includes it).
Composes with	10 devices is workable as a private mesh but not as a shard farm, and the controller is no longer in the open-source build by default.
Reliability	free tier has been cut twice (50 -> 25 -> 10 devices). Docs at docs.zerotier.com/start/ still say 'up to 25 devices' while the vendor's own llms-full.txt says 10 — trust the vendor table, not the docs page.
Notes	10 devices, 1 network, non-commercial use. Vendor table effective 20 Oct 2026: 'Personal \| Free \| 10 \| Not available'.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.zerotier.com/llms-full.txt	'Prices below are in USD, billed monthly, effective 20 October 2026 ... \| Personal \| Free \| 10 \| Not available \| Personal, non-commercial use'
2026-10-21	docs.zerotier.com/start/	'ZeroTier Central is free for personal and small business use (up to 25 devices across all networks)' — CONTRADICTS the vendor table; the docs page is stale
2026-10-21	www.hivebook.wiki/wiki/zerotier-global-peer-to-peer-virtual-	'The default `make` build no longer includes the controller'
2026-10-21	web.archive.org/web/20230401122634/https:/www.zerotier.com/p	historic '25 Nodes' basic tier

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "10 devices, 1 network, non-commercial use. Vendor table effective 20 Oct 2026: 'Personal | Free | 10 | Not available'.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

zerotier free as a storage mesh Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

www.zerotier.com/llms-full.txt · rejected-provider · storage/zerotier-free-as-a-storage-mesh · JSON · compare

Free tier	Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.
Notes	Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.zerotier.com/llms-full.txt	Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.
2026-10-21	www.hivebook.wiki/wiki/zerotier-global-peer-to-peer-virtual-	cited as the basis of the rejection: Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded