Twingate gives a company's people access to private resources without a VPN, through connectors you deploy and policies tied to your identity provider. Paperboat is for working on machines directly: terminals, SSH, files, secrets, previews and tunnels.
Checked against Twingate's own documentation and pricing, November 2026. Sources are listed under the table.
Twingate connects users' devices to resources in private networks through connectors; it is built for giving employees access.
Paperboat connects the machines you install it on to each other, and lets you work on them from anywhere.
Twingate's Privileged Access for SSH signs SSH connections with short-lived certificates; the session ends with the connection.
Paperboat terminals run on the machine and keep running when your laptop sleeps or the network drops. When you come back, from the same computer, another one or a browser, you see what happened while you were away, and you can let someone watch or type along.
$ pb devboxTwingate only makes resources reachable privately.
pb preview gives a port a public HTTPS link in one command, and pb tunnel keeps a permanent address with your own domain, on every plan.
$ pb preview 3000Twingate moves files over SFTP or rsync and has no environment variables or config sync.
pb send puts files in the other machine's Inbox, resuming if the connection drops. ENV delivers encrypted variables to the commands and terminals that need them, and config sync keeps settings the same everywhere from a Git repository.
$ pb send report.pdf --to laptopEvery answer in the Twingate column carries a number that links to the page of theirs that says it. Put a second tool beside it
A shell on your machine that you can leave and come back to.
Run one command on another machine and get its output and exit code.
Use ssh and the tools built on it, without managing keys or opening ports.
Send a file to a machine without setting anything up.
The secrets your programs need, delivered to the machine that runs them.
The same settings on every machine, from a repository you control.
A public link to a port on your machine, for as long as you need it.
A public address for a service that stays the same.
Your machines reach each other's ports without exposing them.
Who could read your traffic on the way.
Working with other people, and deciding who may do what.
Which parts you can run on your own servers.
Where it runs.
How you pay, and what is free.
What each product does, from its own documentation, as of November 2026. “No” means its documentation describes no such feature. Found something out of date? The other product's page wins; tell us and we fix ours.
www.twingate.com/pricing, November 2026
Access is per signed-in account and machine; device posture checks are not part of Paperboat.
Install Paperboat here, then on a second machine. Free for personal use, no card needed.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.pprbt.dev/install | bash > irm https://get.pprbt.dev/install.ps1 | iex