Tailscale, ngrok, and Cloudflare Tunnel each solve a real problem. Anyfy solves a different one: AI-native access to your machines, with the UI included.
| Feature | Anyfy ← you | Tailscale | ngrok | Cloudflare Tunnel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-native UX (chat, previews) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Built-in Ollama chat UI | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mobile chat client | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| OpenAI-compatible proxy | ✓ | Aperture (paid) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mesh VPN required | No | Yes | No | No |
| Open ports on device | None | None | None | None |
| Setup time | ~60s | ~5 min | ~2 min | ~10 min |
| Free tier devices | 1 | 100 | 1 tunnel | 1 tunnel |
| SSH with session recording | ✓ (Team+) | ✓ (Business) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Per-share API keys | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
The agent connects outbound only. No router config, no firewall rules, no inbound exposure. Your machine stays invisible.
Anyfy does not install a virtual network adapter. One lightweight agent process, no kernel networking, no shared IP space.
Tailscale gives you a tunnel; you bring the client. Anyfy ships a chat UI, ComfyUI gallery, and Jupyter viewer against your tunneled services.
If you need every device to reach every other device directly (full mesh), want Kubernetes subnet routing, or need enterprise SSO + SCIM across 500+ nodes, Tailscale is the right tool. Anyfy is purpose-built for AI builders who want a single agent, a clean dashboard, and mobile access to their GPU — not a full corporate VPN.
60 seconds from install to your first tunnel.