Sending invitations to employees can be as simple as pasting their email addresses into a text box and clicking a button. NordLayer Teams is really all about its web dashboard, where you add users, manage your network, and monitor exactly what's going on. It looks to us like NordLayer has a reasonable mid-range price, then, but it's worth checking out the competition, track down a service with the best feature set for you.Īccounts are managed from a central web console (Image credit: NordLayer) Web dashboard
Windscribe's ScribeForce is essentially just offering a business-oriented front end to its regular service - centralized billing, team management and shared IPs - but that's hugely useful all on its own, and it's priced from a tiny $3 per user. Simple.įor comparison, Perimeter 81 has more features, but it's a little more expensive (from $8 per user per month), and requires a minimum five users. Just start with one user, add as many as you need, and the price you'll see is the price you'll pay. No tiers where prices change if you have more than x users, no long term contracts a year. There are no hidden rules or charges to make life complicated. It's priced at $11 per user billed monthly, or $9 on the annual plan. Biometrics support adds another layer of access control, and the ability to buy dedicated servers (for $40-$50 a month) provides dedicated IPs, IP allow-listing, site-to-site features, Smart Remote Access and more. NordLayer Advanced (opens in new tab) gets you priority support and dedicated account management. It's priced at $9 per user billed monthly, or an equivalent $7 if you pay for a year up-front. (Unlike some of the competition, there's no minimum user count - you can start with just one.)
NordLayer Basic (opens in new tab) includes the full VPN, 24/7 live support, the central dashboard and management tools, two-factor authentication and SSO. NordLayer's pricing is simple, straightforward, and a refreshing alternative to the complexities we often see with other network security providers.
NordLayer's web console told us we could 'try Smart Remote Access free for a limited time', giving us a risk-free way to see how the service worked for us.
This has all kinds of potential applications, from simple file sharing to controlling a device via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) or accessing a full server. Smart Remote Access allows all devices connected to the service, whether they're remote workers or on an internal LAN, to communicate securely. Private gateways with dedicated IPs enables IP allow-listing, too, for even stronger access control.
Organize your users into teams mirroring your own company structure (sales, marketing, engineering, whatever you need), and you can restrict each team to its own gateway, ensuring they can only access their own systems. The ability to deploy dedicated servers enables creating your own private gateway, for instance. Dedicated servers can be deployed as private gateways (Image credit: NordLayer)Įnterprise users can secure their network access via a number of powerful Zero Trust and SASE-friendly features.