TSplus

What TSplus actually is

TSplus is Windows remote-access and application-publishing software — the product category analysts call "Citrix alternatives," and the company uses that label itself. Install a lightweight server component on a Windows machine (Windows Server or desktop Windows), and it turns that machine into a multi-user remote desktop and application server: publish individual apps or full desktops, deliver them through a customizable HTML5 web portal or any RDP-compatible client, and let users work from browsers, desktops or mobile devices. It runs without the Windows Remote Desktop Services role and, critically for the budget story, without RDS Client Access Licenses.

The company behind it is TSplus SAS — a family-run, bootstrapped, independent French publisher founded in 2007, headquartered in France (Paris per third-party records), with additional offices in the USA, Germany, Poland and Italy and self-reported reach of 500,000+ customers across 140+ countries. Twenty years of operation without venture funding is a meaningful signal in this market: the product line evolves slowly and predictably, and the pricing model has stayed deliberately old-fashioned.

The suite has four parts. Remote Access is the core product described above. Remote Support is a separate TeamViewer/LogMeIn-style tool for attended and unattended remote control, sold per concurrent connection. Advanced Security is a Windows-server security add-on (ransomware defense, brute-force blocking, geo-blocking, working-hours policies, IP management). Server Monitoring tracks infrastructure health. Plus a 2FA add-on and browser-based access. The suite logic is simple: cheap entry on the core product, security and management as paid extras.

One database note before we go on: our own listing categorized TSplus under VPS providers and carried a Dutch one-line description. That is wrong on both counts — this is remote-access software that runs on hardware you already own or rent, not a hosting provider, and the company's product material is English/French. We have corrected the record here.

Pricing: what you really pay

TSplus's distinguishing feature is perpetual licensing: buy the version, own it forever, with a year of updates and support included. On the .net storefront, Remote Access starts at $200 one-time for the Desktop Edition (3 users) or $4.50 per month on subscription; the .me storefront lists $180 one-time; the EU storefront lists €170. Editions step up as Web & Mobile (adds web portal, HTML5 client, mobile access — $250 per server / €240) and Enterprise (adds farm manager, load balancing, failover — $290 per server), with user tiers at 3, 5, 10, 25 or unlimited users. The European third-party pricing review puts the Enterprise edition at $315 for 3 users up to $2,660 for unlimited users, or $5 per user per month ($4.50 billed annually) on subscription. Taxes may apply on top.

The fine print matters and the company is reasonably upfront about it. Annual support and updates after the first year cost roughly 21% of the license price. The add-ons are where the bill grows: Advanced Security at one-time $200-330 per server (or $20-22 per server per month), a 2FA add-on at roughly $90+ one-time (or $22 per server per month), and Server Monitoring from $5-5.50 per server per month or $120+ per server one-time. Remote Support runs $6-8 per concurrent connection per month depending on volume (with per-connection tiers at 1, 5, 10+ on the pricing page). And you still need your own Windows Server or Windows Pro license.

A worked example they and third parties cite: 10 users on the Web & Mobile edition is $720 one-time, roughly $1,020 all-in over three years including support renewals, against $3,600+ for a comparable Citrix-plus-CAL setup. We cannot verify competitor pricing line by line, but the structural claim holds: perpetual licensing with a 21% annual support renewal is materially cheaper over five years than per-user SaaS subscriptions for a stable user count. The trade appears when your user count churns or when you need the security add-ons — note that brute-force and ransomware protection are paid extras on a product whose main use case is exposing Windows to the internet.

Performance & infrastructure

There is no cloud infrastructure to assess here; TSplus runs on your Windows server (or a cloud VM you rent), and the performance envelope is whatever that machine provides. The product supports 3 to 50+ concurrent sessions per server with farms scaling to thousands of users via the Enterprise edition's load balancing and failover. Connections are TLS 1.2/1.3 with 256-bit encryption, and the deployment pitch — under 30 minutes from download to production, no Storefront/GPO/zone-file ceremony — is consistent across users' reports and third-party reviews.

On the track record: twenty years of shipping, self-reported use at organizations including Oracle, Siemens and Huawei (vendor-stated logos; we cannot independently audit those accounts), and review-platform aggregates of 4.8/5 on G2, 4.7/5 on Trustpilot, 4.9/5 on Google and 4.8/5 on SourceForge. Those aggregates are the strongest reliability evidence available for software like this — nobody publishes uptime SLAs for on-premises products, and uptime here is a property of your server, not the vendor.

We have not benchmarked TSplus session performance and no third party we trust has published controlled RDS/Citrix/TSplus comparisons; the "80% of Citrix functionality at 10-20% of the cost" and "10x lower five-year TCO" lines on their site are vendor claims with indicative figures attached (their own comparison shows Citrix $21,000, Parallels RAS $14,000 and TSplus Remote Access $1,600 over five years for 25 users — explicitly labeled indicative). Treat the direction as credible for SMB scale and the magnitudes as marketing.

Where it falls short

The Windows dependency is structural. TSplus is Windows-server software; there is no Linux server component, no containerized control plane, no cross-platform management story. If your org is standardizing on Linux infrastructure or wants identity/zero-trust tooling from a cloud vendor, this product is a cul-de-sac, however cheap.

Second, the security monetization deserves scrutiny. The product's headline scenario — replacing exposed RDP with a web portal — is a security upgrade, but the deeper protections (brute-force defense, ransomware protection, geo-blocking, working-hours policies, 2FA) are add-ons at $90-330 per server. We would budget the Essentials security edition and 2FA into every deployment cost calculation; a bare Remote Access install on an internet-facing server is a thin defensive posture in 2026, and TLS alone is not a security program.

Third, the storefront sprawl is confusing: tsplus.net, tsplus.eu and tsplus.me publish different headline numbers ($200 / €170 / $180 for the same entry product), and third parties quote a fourth variant. None of it looks deceptive — regional pricing usually explains it — but a buyer doing due diligence will spend time reconciling quotes. Ask for one written quote with support-renewal pricing attached.

Finally, the marketing register is loud relative to the product: "500,000+ companies," comparative TCO charts, "best alternative" superlatives in their own comparison pages. The software underneath is a practical, well-liked tool; the pages around it claim more than we can verify, and we treat every such figure as vendor-stated.

Who should pick this

Our pick for small and mid-sized organizations (the sub-500-user band the comparisons themselves identify) that need to publish Windows applications to remote workers, contractors or clients and want a one-time cost instead of a per-user subscription. The clearest fits: web-enabling legacy Windows apps without redevelopment, giving external accountants or partners access to a centralized desktop, MSPs running small multi-tenant farms, and businesses in markets where paying per user per month forever is unattractive. The perpetual license also suits public-sector and budget-cycle procurement.

We would not pick it as a VPS or hosting product (it is not one), for large enterprises that need Citrix-grade policy depth and dedicated support engineering, or for teams unwilling to run and patch a Windows server themselves. If you are comparing the broader remote-access landscape — including the RDP-exposure security question — the product deserves a place on the shortlist alongside Parallels RAS and Microsoft's own RDS, priced over five years rather than five months.

Key takeaways

• French independent (founded 2007, bootstrapped TSplus SAS): Windows remote-desktop and application publishing positioned as a Citrix/RDS alternative, plus Remote Support, Advanced Security and Server Monitoring lines.
• Perpetual licensing is the point: Remote Access from $200 one-time (3 users; $180 on the .me storefront, €170 in the EU), or ~$4.50-5 per user per month on subscription.
• Recurring costs exist: support/updates renew at roughly 21% of license price yearly after year one, and security essentials (Advanced Security $200-330/server, 2FA $90+/server) are paid add-ons.
• Runs on your own Windows server or cloud VM — no vendor infrastructure, so uptime and performance are your own; 3-50+ concurrent sessions per server, farm load balancing on Enterprise.
• Strong review aggregates (G2 4.8, Trustpilot 4.7) and a 20-year track record; TCO and customer-count claims are vendor-stated and should be validated against your own quote.
• Not a hosting product despite our old database category — this is on-premises software for publishing Windows apps.

Sources

• https://tsplus.net/
• https://tsplus.net/features
• https://tsplus.net/pricing/new-sub-test
• https://tsplus.me/
• https://tsplus.me/releases
• https://tsplus.me/rdp-alternative
• https://tsplus.eu/pricing
• https://europeanstack.com/software/tsplus