System Administrator at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
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Oct 3, 2026
My experience with NetBird's pricing and setup has been very positive, particularly because we are using the self-hosted version. We did not purchase NetBird through the AWS Marketplace or another third-party marketplace. Instead, we deployed the self-hosted version ourselves on our AWS infrastructure. The initial setup cost was straightforward. I followed the installation instructions provided in the NetBird documentation, installed Docker, and followed the setup process step by step. The main requirements were configuring our domain, setting up the required DNS records and Let's Encrypt certificate, and configuring the email address. Once these prerequisites were in place, the installation was relatively simple. From a licensing perspective, the self-hosted deployment is very cost-effective for our use case. We do not have a per-user licensing cost for the self-hosted deployment, so we can add users and machines without the same licensing concerns associated with a per-user commercial plan. Our primary ongoing cost is the AWS infrastructure used to host the NetBird environment. NetBird also offers commercial/business plans for organizations that require additional managed or enterprise capabilities. However, for our requirements, the self-hosted deployment provides the flexibility and functionality we need while keeping the overall cost low. Overall, I find the self-hosted pricing model, simple deployment process, and absence of per-user licensing costs to be significant advantages for organizations that have the technical capability to manage their own infrastructure.
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My experience with NetBird's pricing and setup has been very positive, particularly because we are using the self-hosted version. We did not purchase NetBird through the AWS Marketplace or another third-party marketplace. Instead, we deployed the self-hosted version ourselves on our AWS infrastructure. The initial setup cost was straightforward. I followed the installation instructions provided in the NetBird documentation, installed Docker, and followed the setup process step by step. The main requirements were configuring our domain, setting up the required DNS records and Let's Encrypt certificate, and configuring the email address. Once these prerequisites were in place, the installation was relatively simple. From a licensing perspective, the self-hosted deployment is very cost-effective for our use case. We do not have a per-user licensing cost for the self-hosted deployment, so we can add users and machines without the same licensing concerns associated with a per-user commercial plan. Our primary ongoing cost is the AWS infrastructure used to host the NetBird environment. NetBird also offers commercial/business plans for organizations that require additional managed or enterprise capabilities. However, for our requirements, the self-hosted deployment provides the flexibility and functionality we need while keeping the overall cost low. Overall, I find the self-hosted pricing model, simple deployment process, and absence of per-user licensing costs to be significant advantages for organizations that have the technical capability to manage their own infrastructure.