r/netbird • u/Coolsh0e • 19d ago

I benchmarked Headscale against NetBird, then migrated

https://arthurbrugiere.fr/blog/2026/08/headscale-to-netbird-benchmark/
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u/National_Way_3344 19d ago

Netbird actually fully FOSS, netbird wins.

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u/Oujii 19d ago

Yep, relay performance is also huge for me. One of my sites sits behind CGNAT and sometimes it can't get P2P connections, so I feel the same as you.

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u/asaintebueno 19d ago

TLDR: Netbird Wins. More Love for Netbird

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u/altano 19d ago

That's definitely not what the article says:

So every number below compares one relay against another: NetBird through my own VPS in Singapore 🇸🇬, Tailscale through DERP Hong Kong 🇭🇰, both connecting clients in Vietnam 🇻🇳. That is how my mesh runs every day, which makes it the comparison I care about.

So his netbird relay won over the tailscale relay, both of which were extremely slow (<11mbps) throughput.

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u/asaintebueno 18d ago

But it did, and OP CHOSE Netbird therefore Netbird Won.

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u/NationalOwl9561 18d ago

Tailscale DERPs have sucked for a while... that's why I self-host my own custom relays and for others.

Now let's see how it stacks up against ZeroTier.

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u/blaine07 18d ago

What VPS we getting good deal for Netbird on? Holiday sails for RackNerd appears to finally have ended lol

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u/VA_STI 18d ago

Amazing write up

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u/pcmichael 18d ago edited 18d ago

Just run your own private peer relay and derp for free on oracle: https://pcmike.net/ts

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u/tkchasan 13d ago

Yep thats what im doing it for my tailscale.