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.
Pomerium pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier up to 10 users. Business from $7/user/mo billed annually. Enterprise custom pricing.
Zero
FreeFor 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
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 salesFor 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- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (8)
Independently observed- Keycloak
- Nextcloud
- LetsEncrypt
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- ChatGPT
- Open Policy Agent
Pomerium alternatives
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Compare Pomerium
Side by side against other reverse proxies, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 27 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 8 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |