What is Teleport?
Teleport provides an identity-based access proxy that replaces VPNs, bastion hosts, and long-lived credentials with short-lived, certificate-based access to servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal web applications. It's built and maintained by the company behind Teleport (formerly Gravitational), headquartered in Oakland, California. A free, open-source Community Edition is self-hostable; paid plans add SSO, session recording at scale, access requests, and compliance features, with pricing based on active users and protected resources rather than a published price list.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, pricing page, documentation, GitHub.
Key capabilities
- Community Edition: Free, open-source, self-hostable access proxy for servers, Kubernetes, and databases.
- Identity-based access: Short-lived certificates instead of static SSH keys or VPN credentials.
- Paid tiers: Usage-based pricing (active users and protected resources) for Enterprise features like SSO and access requests.
Core areas are zero-trust infrastructure access, certificate-based authentication, and session recording/audit for compliance.
Shortlist Teleport if you want to remove standing VPN access and static credentials in favor of short-lived, identity-based certificates, with the option to start on the free open-source Community Edition before moving to a paid plan.
Because pricing isn't public, request a quote based on your actual user and resource counts, and pilot the free Community Edition first to validate fit before budgeting for Enterprise features.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Oakland, USA
- Pricing model
- Open source
- API
- Available
- Published release
- Teleport v18.10.0 ↗ (checked )
- Source check
- Primary source ↗ checked
- Website
- goteleport.com ↗
Official resources
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