Aperture by Tailscale

Last validated: Apr 9, 2026

Aperture by Tailscaleis currently in alpha.

During the alpha testing period, Aperture by Tailscale is available at no additional cost with any Tailscale account, including free accounts created during Aperture signup. Request access at aperture.tailscale.com.

Aperture by Tailscale comes with six free users. Contact Tailscale for pricing if you need more than six users.

Aperture by Tailscale is a centralized AI gateway that secures, monitors, and routes LLM requests across your organization. Aperture uses Tailscale's identity layer to automatically authenticate users, eliminating the need to distribute API keys. It routes requests to upstream LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google without requiring changes to existing tools or workflows.

Understand Aperture

Explore the following topics to understand what Aperture does, how it authenticates users, routes requests, and captures telemetry.

What is Aperture? \ \ Aperture by Tailscale is an AI gateway that secures, monitors, and routes LLM requests across your organization. How Aperture works \ \ Understand how Aperture uses Tailscale identity, model-based routing, and telemetry to secure and monitor LLM requests.

Set up Aperture

Get started with Aperture \ \ Sign up for Aperture by Tailscale, configure providers and models, grant user access, and connect your first LLM client. Set up LLM providers \ \ Configure upstream LLM providers so Aperture can route requests and inject authentication on behalf of your users. Set up LLM clients \ \ Configure LLM clients to route requests through Aperture.

Manage access and spending

Control which users and models are available, set spending limits, and configure Aperture's behavior.

Aperture by Tailscale configuration \ \ Configure Aperture by Tailscale as an AI gateway for LLMs. Control AI access \ \ Manage who can access Aperture and which models they can use. Manage AI spending \ \ Set budgets, control per-user spending limits, and monitor quota balances in Aperture.

Observe and integrate

Monitor LLM usage across your organization and connect Aperture with external services.

Observe and export AI usage \ \ Access dashboards, review session logs, and export usage data from Aperture. Integrate with external tools \ \ Connect Aperture with authorization engines, log aggregators, and external services.

Reference and troubleshooting

Configuration reference, CLI documentation, and solutions to common issues.

Aperture reference \ \ Configuration, provider compatibility, and CLI reference documentation for Aperture. Aperture how-to guides \ \ Step-by-step guides for configuring Aperture providers, access controls, spending limits, observability, and integrations. Troubleshooting Aperture by Tailscale \ \ Diagnose and resolve common issues with Aperture by Tailscale.

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