HeadscaleJuan Font
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LightMeshTidal LightMesh
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About
Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the control server used by the Tailscale network, enabling users to keep full ownership of their private tailnets while using Tailscale clients. It supports registering users and nodes, issuing pre-authentication keys, advertising subnet-routes and exit-node capabilities, enforcing access-control lists, and integrating with OIDC/SAML identity providers for user authentication. The server is deployable via Debian/Ubuntu packages or standalone binaries, configurable through a YAML file, and managed via its CLI or REST API. Headscale tracks each node, route, and user in its database, supports route approval workflows, and enables features such as subnet routing, exit node designation, and node-to-node mesh within the tailnet. Being self-hosted, it gives organizations and hobbyists full control over their private network endpoints, encryption keys, and traffic flows, rather than depending on a commercial control plane.
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About
Tidal LightMesh is a modern IP address management (IPAM) platform for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises networks. Built to scale to enterprise environments with millions of IPs, LightMesh provides a centralized source of truth for IPv4 and IPv6 address space.
Replace spreadsheets and legacy IPAM with TreeView subnet mapping, subnet planning, global search, capacity alerts, audit history, conflict detection, and bulk imports.
Automated discovery keeps network data current through Microsoft DHCP synchronization, scheduled ICMP Ping Sweeps, Nmap, and read-only integrations with AWS, Azure, and Cisco Meraki.
Enterprise features include role-based access control, SSO, Requestor workflows, API automation, overlapping address space support, and multi-site management.
Available as SaaS, self-hosted, or hybrid.
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Windows
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Audience
System administrators and hobbyist self-hosters wanting a tool to build and control a secure, self-managed VPN/mesh network using Tailscale clients
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Audience
Trusted by IT leaders, network architects, cloud teams, network operations, and managed service providers, LightMesh delivers a powerful, automated IPAM solution for managing subnets, DHCP visibility, cloud resources, and infrastructure at scale.
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Free
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Pricing
$35 USD per month
Free Forever - 1 user, <1,000 IPs, limits apply
Pro Plan - $35/month or $385/year Team - $249/month or $2,739/year Enterprise Plan - Customized Pricing
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Training
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Company InformationJuan Font
Netherlands
headscale.net/stable/
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Company InformationTidal LightMesh
Founded: 2012
Canada
tidalcloud.com/lightmesh/
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Microsoft 365
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Okta
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