If you've ever needed to let a third-party service talk to your local dev environment, you've probably reached for ngrok. I've been moving some of that over to Tailscale Funnel instead — here's what works, what broke, and how it stacks up against Cloudflare Tunnel.
Key takeaways
Tailscale Funnel exposes a local dev server to the public internet, similar to ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel — useful for testing webhooks, payment callbacks, or anything a third party needs to reach on your machine.
It's free for solo/small use, with no device limit on the Personal plan (up to 6 users).
tailscale serve is tailnet-private; tailscale funnel is what actually makes something public — easy to mix up.
