Cloudflare Zero Trust Free Plan: Replace Your VPN for Teams Up to 50 Users
✍️ 网络工具栏目🕒 March 19, 2026📖 5 min read
Cloudflare Zero Trust (formerly Teams) offers a completely free plan for up to 50 users with ZTNA, secure web gateway, and browser isolation—replacing traditional VPN infrastructure at zero cost.
Zero Trust vs Traditional VPN
Traditional VPN: once inside, you can access everything. Zero Trust: “never trust, always verify”—each resource access re‑authenticates identity and device. Even inside the office, sensitive systems need MFA.
Free Plan Features
- 50 users free forever
- WARP client (Windows/Mac/iOS/Android)
- Private Network Access: secure internal resource access
- Secure Web Gateway: web filtering & threat protection
- Access app proxy: internal web apps without VPN
- Device posture checks
Setup (30 min)
- Create Zero Trust account in Cloudflare One
- Install cloudflared on internal servers
- Create Tunnel to expose services
- Configure Access policies (who can access which app)
- Set up Identity Provider (Google/Okta/GitHub)
- Employees install WARP and join
Moving our 10‑person team from WireGuard to Cloudflare Zero Trust eliminated VPN server maintenance, improved speed, and cut admin work by 80%.
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Cloudflare Tunnel securely exposes internal services (even localhost) without a public IP—free, unlimited traffic, more stable than ngrok. Perfect for internal tunnels.