Pomerium

Identity-aware reverse proxy enabling zero-trust access without requiring VPN clients

Also known as
pomerium

Available worldwide

What is Pomerium?

Pomerium provides secure access to internal applications through identity and context-based authorization policies. It serves as a centralized gateway that authenticates and authorizes users before granting access, with a self-hosted data plane keeping sensitive information within organizational infrastructure.

Independently observed

Pomerium pricing

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from $7/user/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier up to 10 users. Business from $7/user/mo billed annually. Enterprise custom pricing.

Zero

Free
Free

For individuals and hobbyists needing secure personal application access

users
10
  • Web-based secure application access
  • Managed control plane
  • Self-hosted reverse proxy
  • Unified control plane UI
  • 1 admin user
  • Automatic TLS certificate issuance with LetsEncrypt

Business

$7/user/mo billed annually
annual

For teams and companies requiring advanced security and compliance features

admin_users
5
tls_certificates
20
multi_cluster_support
1000
  • Web-based secure application access
  • Self-hosted reverse proxy and data plane
  • Managed control plane
  • Custom domain support
  • 5 admin users
  • 20 TLS certificates
  • Multi-cluster support
  • Plugin support for third-party user context
  • Organizational namespaces
  • Hierarchical authorization policies
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Branded console and error pages
  • Web UI, CLI, and API access
  • SSO with OIDC identity providers
  • JWT support
  • TCP-over-HTTP and SSH-over-HTTP access
  • Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication
  • Identity provider data sync
  • Advanced team management
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Access and audit logs
  • Email and Slack support

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

For large organizations requiring full control and advanced features

  • Fully self-hosted, on-premise deployment
  • Full Pomerium API access
  • No usage limits
  • Dedicated customer support
  • Dedicated Slack channel
  • Phone support
  • Dedicated customer success manager
  • All Business plan features

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • On-premise
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (8)

Independently observed
  • Keycloak
  • Nextcloud
  • LetsEncrypt
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • ChatGPT
  • Open Policy Agent

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Pomerium, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 77 / 100
low · 26%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.088.4
Price level800.054.2
Integrations270.041.1
Reliability00.070.0-
Capabilities00.050.0-
Security posture50.070.0-

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Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count8mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 7 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%