# Teleport AI visibility in Developer Tunnels & Localhost Ingress

Canonical: https://devtune.ai/verticals/developer-tunnels-localhost-ingress/teleport

[Website](https://goteleport.com/)

Updated: 2026-10-20T19:59:26.101586+00:00
Prompts: 25
Runs: 6


## Platforms

- google-ai
- bing-copilot-search
- google-ai-mode
- perplexity
- chatgpt-search
- xai-search

Rank: 6
Total brands: 10
Measured responses: 150
Presence percent: 6
Share of voice percent: 4.436860068259386
Average position: 23.307692307692307
Docs presence percent: 3.3333333333333335
Blog presence percent: 1.3333333333333335
Brand mention percent: 0


## Profile

Overview: Teleport (goteleport.com), built by Gravitational Inc., is an infrastructure identity platform that unifies access management for humans, machines, and AI across SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, Windows systems, and web applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, California, it replaces VPNs, bastion hosts, and static credentials with short-lived X.509 certificates anchored to a hardware root of trust. The platform provides zero standing privileges, just-in-time access requests, full session recording, and cryptographic audit trails—accelerating compliance with FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS. Customers include Nasdaq, DoorDash, IBM, Elastic, and dbt Labs. An open-source Community Edition is available; enterprise features require a commercial license.
Product summary: Teleport is an Infrastructure Identity Platform that consolidates zero-trust access, machine identity, identity governance, and identity security into a single platform. It issues cryptographically-signed, ephemeral certificates to humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents—eliminating passwords, SSH keys, and shared secrets. Engineers access any infrastructure resource through a unified proxy that enforces RBAC policies, records sessions, and generates compliance-ready audit logs, all without installing VPNs or managing credential rotation.


### Key capabilities

- Certificate-based zero-trust access eliminating static SSH keys and passwords
- Ephemeral, short-lived privilege grants with no standing access
- Unified access plane for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, Windows, and web applications
- Full session recording with searchable audit logs and cryptographic proof
- Machine and workload identity (non-human identity management)
- Just-in-time access requests with approval workflows
- Identity governance including access reviews and shadow access detection
- SSO/SAML/OIDC integration with major identity providers (Okta, Entra, Google Workspace)
- Compliance acceleration for FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2
- Agentic AI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) security controls



### Target users

- DevOps and platform engineering teams managing multi-cloud infrastructure
- Security and compliance teams at regulated enterprises (finance, healthcare, government)
- Site reliability engineers (SREs) requiring auditable, zero-trust server access
- Engineering leaders seeking to eliminate VPNs and SSH key sprawl
- DevSecOps teams implementing FedRAMP, SOC 2, or HIPAA controls
- Organizations deploying AI agents or MCP tools that need governed infrastructure access



### Key use cases

- Replacing VPNs and SSH bastion hosts for remote infrastructure access
- Privileged access management (PAM) for engineering and DevOps teams
- Zero-trust Kubernetes cluster access across multi-cloud environments
- Securing database access without shared credentials
- FedRAMP and SOC 2 compliance audit trail automation
- Machine and workload identity for CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Securing AI agent and MCP tool access to production infrastructure
- Onboarding and offboarding engineers with instant access provisioning/revocation

Integrations ecosystem: Teleport lists 112 official integrations across categories including AWS (19 services: RDS, EKS, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc.), Kubernetes distros (14: EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, k3s, etc.), databases/data services (30: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, Redis, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Oracle, etc.), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Buildkite), observability (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk), IDP/SSO (Okta, Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace, Microsoft Active Directory, Keycloak), IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack), notification plugins (Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost), and Linux distros. Strategic AWS partnership is highlighted. The platform also exposes a full API and supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) for agentic AI workloads.
Pricing summary: Teleport uses usage-based pricing across four billing metrics: Monthly Active Users (MAU) for human users, Machine/Workload Identity (MWI) for non-human identities, and Teleport Protected Resources (TPR) for infrastructure assets. All enterprise pricing is custom/quote-only with no published list prices. Deployment options (cloud, on-premises, FIPS, multi-region HA, hybrid, edge) do not affect billing metrics except multi-region HA, which carries a minimum contract value. A Community Edition is available free of charge for organizations with fewer than 100 employees and less than $10M in annual revenue, though it lacks some enterprise features. A free trial of the cloud edition is available.
Review summary: Teleport holds strong ratings on enterprise review platforms: 4.4–4.5/5 on G2 (107 verified reviews) and 4.6/5 on Gartner Peer Insights. Positive feedback centers on the seamless elimination of SSH key management, tight SSO integration, Kubernetes access simplicity, and high-quality session audit logs that satisfy compliance auditors. Negative feedback highlights complex initial setup (especially on non-Kubernetes or multi-cloud environments), a steep learning curve, and significant community backlash over the 2023 licensing change that ended the free self-hosted Community Edition for companies above 100 employees, with users citing surprise cost increases and reduced trust in the vendor.
Competitive positioning: Teleport occupies a premium, enterprise-grade niche within the Developer Tunnels & Localhost Ingress vertical, differentiating itself through a cryptographic, certificate-based identity model that eliminates static credentials entirely. Rather than positioning as a simple localhost tunnel or reverse proxy (like ngrok or Inlets), Teleport competes as an infrastructure identity platform with privileged access management (PAM) capabilities—targeting security-conscious engineering teams at regulated enterprises. Its primary differentiators are: zero standing privileges via ephemeral X.509 certificates, unified single-pane access across SSH, Kubernetes, databases, Windows, and web apps, full session recording, and native compliance tooling (FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS). Against network-layer peers like Tailscale, Teleport emphasizes deeper identity governance and audit trail depth over ease of mesh setup. Against Cloudflare Tunnel, it competes on protocol breadth and developer-centric PAM features. It is the most enterprise-positioned and compliance-hardened option in the vertical.
Limitations: Initial setup complexity is a recurring user complaint, particularly for non-Kubernetes or multi-cloud SSO environments. The 2023 community edition license change—restricting free self-hosting to companies under 100 employees and under $10M in revenue—generated significant backlash from existing open-source adopters who felt blindsided. MFA capabilities are reported by some reviewers as less robust than dedicated MFA tools (e.g., Cisco Duo). Self-hosted deployments require downtime for version upgrades (per competitor analysis). Certificate-only credential model limits interoperability with some legacy systems. Pricing is custom/quote-only with usage-based billing, which can make cost forecasting difficult for fast-growing teams.


### Source urls

- https://goteleport.com/
- https://goteleport.com/pricing/
- https://goteleport.com/blog/series-c/
- https://goteleport.com/integrations/
- https://goteleport.com/case-study/
- https://www.g2.com/products/teleport/reviews
- https://tracxn.com/d/companies/teleport/__u1LHb686-_cKAtlsisdfY44fYnyGEGEdvjXlAbdy2D8
- https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Teleport-Secures-110-Million-in-Recent-Funding-Round-to-Continue-to-Expand-its-Security-Capabilities-152791.aspx
- https://goteleport.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/teleport-named-in-inc-5000-annual-list-of-america-s-fastest-growing-companies/
- https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
- https://checkthat.ai/brands/teleport

Reviewed at: 2026-05-06T17:53:52.902+00:00


### Customer outcomes

| Customer | Summary | Metric |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nasdaq | Teleport enables Nasdaq to comply with regulatory requirements for running an international stock exchange, integrating with their identity service and providing auditable access to internal infrastructure via bastion-host replacement. | Not available |
| dbt Labs | Teleport supported a 10x engineering headcount growth (15 to 150+ engineers) while eliminating password-based access, automating access provisioning, and simplifying SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit processes for Fortune 500 customers. | Not available |
| GoTo | GoTo streamlined multi-cloud access management and enhanced security across their infrastructure, with engineers reporting near-instant access to cloud resources compared to a previous multi-step process. | Not available |
| Gladly | Gladly eliminated SSH key management overhead entirely, unifying all access through a single SSO-integrated control plane and providing real-time session evidence satisfying security auditors and enterprise customers. | Not available |



### Reviews breakdown

| Platform | Score | Score max | Review count | Url |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| G2 | 4.4 | 5 | 107 | https://www.g2.com/products/teleport/reviews |



### Review themes



#### Praised

- Eliminates SSH key management complexity
- Seamless SSO and RBAC integration
- Excellent session recording and audit logs
- Easy Kubernetes and server access via single tool
- Strong compliance support (SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA)
- Active open-source community
- Improves developer productivity and access speed
- Certificate-based security model praised as robust



#### Criticized

- Complex initial setup, especially for non-Kubernetes environments
- Steep learning curve for new access management users
- Community edition license change seen as betrayal of early adopters
- Surprise pricing increase for self-hosted CE users
- MFA capabilities less robust than dedicated tools like Cisco Duo
- Requires agent installation on target resources
- Downtime required for version upgrades in self-hosted deployments




### Company facts

Founded year: 2015
Hq: Oakland, CA, USA


#### Founders

- Ev Kontsevoy
- Alexander Klizhentas
- Taylor Wakefield

Employees range: 250-300
Total funding: $169M
Valuation: $1.1B
Arr: Not available
Customer count: 500+
Status: Private


Readiness: Not available


## Ranking

| Display name | Pair count | Total pairs | Presence percent | Avg position |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 70 | 150 | 46.666666666666664 | 17.18285714285714 |
| ngrok | 54 | 150 | 36 | 12.03076923076923 |
| Tailscale | 52 | 150 | 34.66666666666667 | 22.906976744186046 |
| Pinggy | 27 | 150 | 18 | 25.074626865671643 |
| LocalXpose | 18 | 150 | 12 | 20.96969696969697 |
| Teleport | 9 | 150 | 6 | 23.307692307692307 |
| Inlets | 5 | 150 | 3.3333333333333335 | 22.384615384615383 |
| NetFoundry | 5 | 150 | 3.3333333333333335 | 44 |
| NetBird | 2 | 150 | 1.3333333333333335 | 43.4 |
| PageKite | 0 | 150 | 0 | Not available |



## Platform breakdown

| Platform | Prompt count | Presence rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| google-ai | 1 | 4 |
| bing-copilot-search | 0 | 0 |
| google-ai-mode | 1 | 4 |
| perplexity | 2 | 8 |
| chatgpt-search | 3 | 12 |
| xai-search | 2 | 8 |



## Strengths

| Prompt text | Platform count | Avg position |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What tunneling tools integrate with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace for SSO? | 1 | 4 |
| Which secure access platforms have the smoothest CLI experience for everyday developer workflows? | 5 | 8 |



## Gaps

| Prompt text | Competitor presence count |
| --- | --- |
| Which localhost tunneling platforms support custom domains and persistent URLs across restarts? | 6 |
| Which localhost tunneling services have unlimited bandwidth on their paid tiers? | 5 |
| Which tunneling tools handle long-running production deployments without dropping connections? | 5 |
| Which tunneling tools have the best traffic inspection and request replay features for debugging webhooks? | 5 |
| Which tunneling platforms have official Kubernetes operators or Helm charts for production ingress? | 5 |



## Topic scores

| Topic name | Prompt count | Cited prompt count |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 5 | 1 |
| Developer Experience | 5 | 1 |
| Integrations & Ecosystem | 5 | 1 |
| Performance & Reliability | 5 | 0 |
| Setup & First Run | 5 | 0 |



## Prompt results

- Prompt text: Which localhost tunneling services have unlimited bandwidth on their paid tiers?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 1 |
| LocalXpose | 2 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| LocalXpose | 2 |
| Pinggy | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| LocalXpose | 2 |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 1 |
| ngrok | 6 |
| Cloudflare | 7 |
| NetFoundry | 10 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 1 |
| Tailscale | 14 |
| LocalXpose | 18 |
| Cloudflare | 26 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling platforms can expose Kubernetes services without configuring a load balancer or ingress controller?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 2 |
| Tailscale | 3 |
| Inlets | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 10 |
| ngrok | 16 |
| Inlets | 34 |
| Tailscale | 35 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling tools handle long-running production deployments without dropping connections?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Tailscale | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 2 |
| Tailscale | 4 |
| Cloudflare | 44 |


- Prompt text: What tunneling solutions integrate well with edge platforms or CDNs to combine tunneling with caching and WAF?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Tailscale | 4 |
| ngrok | 42 |
| Pinggy | 46 |


- Prompt text: Which secure access platforms have the smoothest CLI experience for everyday developer workflows?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: 5
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: 2
Perplexity: 3
Chatgpt-search: 2
Xai-search: 28



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 5 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 2 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Teleport | 3 |
| Cloudflare | 5 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 2 |
| Tailscale | 3 |
| Cloudflare | 10 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 22 |
| Teleport | 28 |
| NetBird | 34 |
| Cloudflare | 39 |
| NetFoundry | 75 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling solutions offer the lowest latency by leveraging a global edge network?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 2 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Tailscale | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 4 |
| ngrok | 7 |
| Tailscale | 12 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| LocalXpose | 36 |
| Cloudflare | 40 |
| Pinggy | 63 |
| Tailscale | 67 |


- Prompt text: What are the best zero-trust networking solutions that combine tunneling with identity-based access control?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Tailscale | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search





##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| NetBird | 33 |
| Tailscale | 38 |
| Cloudflare | 72 |


- Prompt text: What are the best tunnel solutions for teams that want to share local services with each other during development?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| NetFoundry | 4 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| ngrok | 2 |
| Cloudflare | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| ngrok | 3 |
| Cloudflare | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| LocalXpose | 5 |
| Pinggy | 12 |
| Cloudflare | 18 |
| NetFoundry | 54 |


- Prompt text: Which developer tunneling tools have the best CI/CD integrations for spinning up ephemeral preview environments per pull request?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| Tailscale | 5 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 4 |
| Cloudflare | 7 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 12 |
| LocalXpose | 30 |
| Tailscale | 31 |


- Prompt text: What's the simplest way to expose a local webhook endpoint to a third-party service like Stripe or Twilio for testing?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| LocalXpose | 1 |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 2 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 2 |
| Tailscale | 6 |
| Cloudflare | 8 |
| LocalXpose | 9 |
| ngrok | 21 |


- Prompt text: What are the most reliable tunneling platforms for production-grade ingress, not just dev testing?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Inlets | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 4 |
| Tailscale | 5 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Tailscale | 4 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 6 |
| Cloudflare | 9 |
| Pinggy | 13 |
| Tailscale | 15 |
| LocalXpose | 18 |


- Prompt text: Which localhost tunneling platforms support custom domains and persistent URLs across restarts?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| Pinggy | 4 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| ngrok | 6 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 2 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 5 |
| Tailscale | 11 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 11 |
| Pinggy | 24 |
| LocalXpose | 37 |
| Tailscale | 38 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling tools have the best traffic inspection and request replay features for debugging webhooks?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Pinggy | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Pinggy | 2 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 2 |
| LocalXpose | 14 |
| Cloudflare | 30 |


- Prompt text: I need to share a demo of an app running on my laptop with a remote client — what are my options?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 26 |
| Pinggy | 28 |
| Tailscale | 34 |


- Prompt text: Which secure access tools provide identity-aware proxies for SSH, databases, and Kubernetes API access?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: 1
Chatgpt-search: 2
Xai-search: 1



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 2 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Teleport | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 34 |


- Prompt text: What tunneling tools integrate with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace for SSO?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: 4
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 2 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| ngrok | 6 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| Teleport | 4 |
| ngrok | 8 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 21 |
| Tailscale | 31 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling tools let me get a public HTTPS URL for my local dev server in under a minute?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 4 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Pinggy | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 12 |
| Pinggy | 13 |
| Cloudflare | 15 |
| ngrok | 58 |


- Prompt text: What tunneling tools work best for developers building integrations with external APIs that need to call back to localhost?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 2 |
| Tailscale | 6 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 8 |
| Pinggy | 9 |
| Tailscale | 10 |
| LocalXpose | 17 |


- Prompt text: What's the fastest way to expose a localhost server to the public internet for testing webhooks?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 6 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 2 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 7 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 6 |
| LocalXpose | 9 |
| Pinggy | 12 |
| Tailscale | 17 |
| ngrok | 35 |


- Prompt text: Which localhost tunneling solutions don't require me to install a binary or sign up for an account?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 5 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 3 |
| LocalXpose | 7 |
| Cloudflare | 30 |
| ngrok | 70 |


- Prompt text: What tools let me securely tunnel into a private network from anywhere without setting up a traditional VPN?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 4 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |



##### Xai-search




- Prompt text: What secure access platforms scale best to hundreds of devices and thousands of users in a corporate network?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode





##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 7 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 9 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 34 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling platforms have official Kubernetes operators or Helm charts for production ingress?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 3 |



##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Tailscale | 3 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Tailscale | 3 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| Tailscale | 4 |
| Inlets | 7 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| ngrok | 11 |
| Tailscale | 22 |
| Inlets | 42 |
| NetFoundry | 45 |
| Pinggy | 48 |


- Prompt text: Which secure access platforms work with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform for repeatable network setup?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai





##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 1 |
| Tailscale | 4 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 1 |
| Cloudflare | 5 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | 35 |
| Tailscale | 63 |


- Prompt text: Which tunneling tools support TCP, UDP, and other non-HTTP protocols for game servers, MQTT, or databases?


#### Brand position by platform

Google-ai: Not available
Bing-copilot-search: Not available
Google-ai-mode: Not available
Perplexity: Not available
Chatgpt-search: Not available
Xai-search: Not available



#### Platform rows



##### Google-ai

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Pinggy | 5 |



##### Bing-copilot-search





##### Google-ai-mode

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| LocalXpose | 1 |
| Pinggy | 2 |
| Cloudflare | 8 |



##### Perplexity

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| LocalXpose | 1 |
| Tailscale | 6 |



##### Chatgpt-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| Tailscale | 2 |
| Cloudflare | 3 |
| ngrok | 4 |



##### Xai-search

| Display name | Position |
| --- | --- |
| ngrok | 2 |
| Pinggy | 3 |
| LocalXpose | 14 |
| Tailscale | 17 |





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| https://goteleport.com/docs/connect-your-client/teleport-clients/tsh/ | Using the tsh Command Line Tool | goteleport.com | https://izgwnlozsmjmqjsnddmg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/domain-logos/9dbab6f8-54b2-49a0-8181-89a0ed130318/979b9e43-50a8-4cc5-a118-f96736cc3b48/6c48fd9c1d40fc930b24fab1112aae4b8a1343a9.png | commercial | comparison | 2 | 2 |
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## Response excerpts

| Prompt text | Platform | Excerpt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Which secure access platforms have the smoothest CLI experience for everyday developer workflows? | chatgpt-search | ## My shortlist ## 1. Teleport Best all-round infrastructure CLI Teleport's `tsh` is a strong choice if you routinely work across SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases. |
| Which secure access tools provide identity-aware proxies for SSH, databases, and Kubernetes API access? | chatgpt-search | The main options to evaluate are Teleport, StrongDM, Boundary by HashiCorp, and Pomerium. |
| What tunneling tools integrate with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace for SSO? | chatgpt-search | Website: ngrok.com ## 4. Teleport An identity-aware infrastructure access platform for SSH, databases, Kubernetes, servers, and internal applications. |



## Competitor excerpts

| Platform | Competitor name | Excerpt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| google-ai | Pinggy | Pinggy — _Paid Plans_ * Custom Domains: Supported on the Pro tier. * Persistence: Persistent subdomains, custom domains, and permanent ports are available on paid plans (starting around $2.50–$3/month). |
| bing-copilot-search | Cloudflare | The tunneling platforms that support both custom domains and persistent URLs across restarts are primarily Cloudflare Tunnel, ngrok (paid tiers), Pinggy (paid), LocalXpose, and certain self-hosted/open-source options like frp or Inlets. Free tiers of... |
| google-ai-mode | Cloudflare | Cloudflare Tunnel (`cloudflared`) * * Persistent URLs & Custom Domains: Fully supported. |
| perplexity | Cloudflare | Cloudflare Tunnel — A named tunnel can use a stable hostname on a domain you own. |
| perplexity | ngrok | ngrok — Supports reserved ngrok domains and custom domains you own. Configure the domain once, then use it when starting the tunnel, so you don’t have to rely on a new random URL each time. |
| chatgpt-search | ngrok | ...nt URL \| Cost model \| \| --- \| --- \| --- \| --- \| \| Cloudflare Tunnel \| Yes \| Yes, with a named tunnel \| Free core service \| \| ngrok \| Yes \| Yes, with a reserved or static domain \| Free tier and paid features \| \| localhost.run \| Yes \| Yes, with a custom-do... |
| bing-copilot-search | Pinggy | The localhost tunneling services that explicitly offer _unlimited bandwidth_ on their paid tiers are Pinggy and LocalXpose. Ngrok, by contrast, imposes usage-based limits even on paid plans.[Top 10 Ngrok alternatives in 2026 \| Pinggy Blog](ht... |
| bing-copilot-search | LocalXpose | The localhost tunneling services that explicitly offer _unlimited bandwidth_ on their paid tiers are Pinggy and LocalXpose. Ngrok, by contrast, imposes usage-based limits even on paid plans.[Top 10 Ngrok alternatives in 2026 \| Pinggy Blog](ht... |
| google-ai-mode | ngrok | ...er truly unlimited bandwidth on their paid tiers (avoiding strict data caps or metered pay-as-you-go overage models like ngrok), a few prominent providers stand out: [ngrok Pricing — API Gateway, Tunnels & Kubernetes Ingress](https://ngrok.com/pricin... |
| google-ai-mode | LocalXpose | ...ent providers stand out: ngrok Pricing — API Gateway, Tunnels & Kubernetes Ingress * * LocalXpose: Their Pro plan ($8/month) provides multi-protocol tunneling (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, UDP, T... |
| google-ai-mode | Pinggy | Pricing Plans: Compare LocalXpose Subscriptions and Features * Pinggy: Their Pro plan starts at an affordable tier ($3/month) and explicitly provides unlimited bandwidth/data transf... |
| perplexity | LocalXpose | LocalXpose — its Pro plan advertises unlimited bandwidth [2]. - ngrok — its Pay-as-you-go plan advertises unlimited data transfer, though usage beyond the included amount is billed [3]. Check each provider’s current terms and fair-use limits be... |



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