Elastic Cloud Hosted vs Tailscale
Elastic Cloud Hosted
elastic.co
Tailscale
tailscale.comSide by side
| Figure | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Tailscale |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $1/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 8 |
| Spec score · AWS Marketplace Software | 7.8 (#7) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Compliance | Elastic says Elastic Cloud Hosted is FedRAMP High authorized on AWS GovCloud and compliant with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and IRAP. | Tailscale says it has completed SOC 2 Type II certification covering security, availability, and confidentiality. |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists Elastic Agent, Open Crawler, content connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash as ingestion methods. | Official integration documentation covers cloud servers, containers and virtual machines, serverless apps, databases, code environments, firewalls, web servers, NAS devices and MDM. |
| Product | Elastic Cloud Hosted is Elastic Stack managed through deployments hosted on a cloud provider and region of the customer's choice. | Tailscale describes itself as a zero-config VPN that works with almost anything. |
| Support | All Hosted subscription levels include support by email or through the Elastic Support Portal; Standard has no response-time SLA, while Gold and Platinum include one. | Tailscale provides documentation, a support request form, community channels, and plan-dependent support levels; Premium lists priority support. |
Plans
Tailscale
- PersonalFree
- Standard$8 a month
- Premium$18 a month
- Additional tagged resources$1 a month
- Add more tagged resources$1 a month
- Mullvad$5 a month
- Mullvad add-on$5 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Elastic Cloud Hosted
Elastic Cloud Hosted has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Tailscale
Tailscale is a zero-config VPN for connecting users and devices across a network. It uses WireGuard to form low-latency peer-to-peer connections, which Tailscale says are end-to-end encrypted so it cannot read users’ traffic. Administrators can use access control lists to specify which users may connect to which devices. Supported identity providers handle authentication, and SCIM supports user and group provisioning. Monitoring features include configuration audit logs, network flow logs, webhooks, and log streaming to SIEM partners. Device posture information can be used in connectivity rules. Taildrop transfers files between devices, while node sharing lets users share a node without exposing it to the public internet. The service runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. Personal is free forever for non-commercial use and supports up to six users; Standard costs $8 per user per month. Premium costs $18 per user per month and includes priority support.