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title: "NordLayer review: pricing, pros and cons"
description: "Nord Security's business network: per-user pricing from $8 with a five-seat floor, SSO on every plan, UK dedicated servers in London and Manchester, but every feature a small business actually wants (fixed IP, site-to-site, device-to-device \"Cloud LAN\", cloud firewall) sits on top of a $40-a-month server and mostly the $14 Premium tier, it logs by design, and it has no Trustpilot profile and no API."
canonical: "https://saaskly.com/category/vpn/nordlayer"
last-updated: "2026-09-07"
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# NordLayer review: pricing, pros and cons

> Saaskly verdict: **3.2/5**. Nord Security's business network: per-user pricing from $8 with a five-seat floor, SSO on every plan, UK dedicated servers in London and Manchester, but every feature a small business actually wants (fixed IP, site-to-site, device-to-device "Cloud LAN", cloud firewall) sits on top of a $40-a-month server and mostly the $14 Premium tier, it logs by design, and it has no Trustpilot profile and no API.

- Category: [VPN](https://saaskly.com/category/vpn.md)
- Vendor website: https://nordlayer.com
- Last updated: 2026-09-07

## Pros and cons

**Pros**

- SSO on every plan, SCIM, device posture, cloud firewall and site-to-site: proper team controls
- Flat per-user pricing with no intro/renewal games; UK dedicated servers in London and Manchester
- 24/7 chat support; NordLynx; six devices per licence

**Cons**

- Five-seat minimum and a $40/mo server before any fixed IP, site-to-site or Cloud LAN ($95+/mo for a small team)
- Logs by design (admin activity monitoring); no no-logs audit; no public API; no Trustpilot profile
- Cloud LAN, site-to-site and included SCIM are Premium ($14) only; USD billing to UK buyers

## Pricing

Month-to-month price first (what you pay without committing), then the annual-commit rate.

- **Lite (annual)**: $8/mo month-to-month; $6.40/mo on an annual commitment (month-to-month costs 25% more)
  - Includes: Per user per month, USD ex VAT, 5 users minimum; annual price computed from the "SAVE 20%" badge (monthly $8); Core $11 / Premium $14 monthly; Server with Dedicated IP +$40/mo (required for Core/Premium network features; UK London/Manchester); 14-day refund, renewals excluded.

Minimum commitment: **$384** ($6.40/mo × 5 seats × 12 months).

## Specification

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Month-to-month | $8/mo |
| Longest plan, per month | $6.40/mo |
| Renewal, per month | $6.40/mo |
| Renewal premium* | 0% |
| Pricing pattern | Per user |
| Type | Zero-trust access |
| Jurisdiction | United States (entity); England and Wales (governing law) |
| Owner | Nord Security |
| No-logs audit | Not audited |
| Devices | 6 |
| Fixed IP | Business plans only: $40.00/mo, UK available |
| Device-to-device network | Business plans only |
| WireGuard | Yes |
| Port forwarding | No |
| UK servers | Yes |
| Business plan | Yes |
| SSO | Yes |
| Linux client | Yes |
| Open-source apps | No |
| API | No |
| MCP server | No |
| Countries | 40 |
| RAM-only servers | No |
| Kill switch | Yes |
| Split tunnelling | Yes |
| Multi-hop | No |
| Ad / tracker blocking | Yes |
| Free tier | None |
| Money-back (days) | 14 |
| 24/7 live chat | Yes |
| Support channels | 24/7 live chat, Email |

*Renewal premium: how much more the longest plan costs per month after its introductory term than during it, as a percentage of the intro rate. VPNs advertise the intro rate; you pay the renewal every term after. 0% means the advertised price is the real price. Prices are per month, effective (plan total ÷ months), as shown to a UK visitor on the research date, in the currency the vendor bills UK customers in; see each profile for the VAT basis.

†Trustpilot: uk.trustpilot.com TrustScore and review count on the research date. Three cells are weak signals and are shown for completeness: Cloudflare (1.4) is mostly non-customers blocked by CAPTCHAs on other companies' websites and no review mentions WARP; Tailscale (23 reviews) and Mullvad (186) are tiny unprompted samples. NordLayer has no Trustpilot profile, so its cell is blank.

## Our review

NordLayer (Nord Security Inc., New York, contracting under English law, a different entity from NordVPN's Panama company; launched 2019 as NordVPN Teams, renamed September 2021) is what Nord sells to companies, and it should be read as a managed-access product rather than a privacy VPN. Prices are per user per month in USD to UK visitors, ex VAT, five users minimum: Lite $8, Core $11, Premium $14 on monthly billing, with "SAVE 20–22%" badges for annual billing (about $6.40 / $8.69 / $10.92, computed, not quoted). There is no intro pricing, so no renewal cliff, though renewals are at "the then-current price" and are not refundable. Six devices per licence, NordLynx and OpenVPN, Always On VPN, web protection and download scanning on every plan, DNS and application filtering from Core, and SSO with Okta, Entra ID, OneLogin, Google and JumpCloud on all plans. That last one is unusual at this price. The catch is the "Server with Dedicated IP" at $40 a month: Core and Premium's network features require it, and it is the fixed IP (UK: London and Manchester), the Virtual Private Gateway, the anchor for site-to-site IKEv2 tunnels, for Cloud LAN (the renamed Smart Remote Access, which links devices through the gateway rather than peer-to-peer) and for the cloud firewall. Cloud LAN, site-to-site, the browser extension and included SCIM are Premium only. A realistic floor for a five-person team wanting a UK fixed IP is Core at 5 × $11 plus $40, so $95 a month ex VAT, or $110 on Premium.

What NordLayer is not: audited for no-logs. Its privacy policy lists connection timestamps, gateway, origin IP and device hostname as data the customer's admin can see, and "activity monitoring reports" are a listed feature. The Deloitte no-logs engagements belong to NordVPN. NordLayer holds ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2, which are control audits. There is no public API (webhooks only), no open-source client, Linux is CLI-only, support is 24/7 chat and email with no phone, and there is no Trustpilot profile at all. Gartner Peer Insights and G2 listings exist but we do not use their scores as facts. NordLayer runs an affiliate programme on Nord's shared platform; Saaskly has no link.

*Not yet tested by Saaskly: assessed on published pricing, documentation and third-party reviews.*

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Researched and drafted with AI assistance; reviewed and approved by Tim Meredith. See https://saaskly.com/ai-transparency.md and https://saaskly.com/editorial-policy.md.

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