Algo VPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Mesh / self-hosted median 2.5
- Mesh / self-hosted
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Founded2016 (launch blog post)
- Owner:Trail of Bits
- Data completeness60%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support4.8 vs 3.9
- Security and protocols2.5 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.6 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.0 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms2.1 vs 3.4
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Mesh / self-hosted services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Algo VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.31.0
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 1.82.5
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 3.42.1
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 0.50.5
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 2.80.6
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.94.8
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
Algo VPN pricing
Algo VPN does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes fully free, AGPL-3.0. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Not stated
Everything Algo VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Algo VPN, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Trail of Bits (maintainer)
- Registered in
- US
- Parent company
- Trail of Bits
- Related brands
- No
- Founded
- 2016 (launch blog post)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- none
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (+ own cloud hosting cost)
- Monthly plan
- 0
- 1-year plan, total
- 0
- 1-year plan, a month
- 0
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- optional DNS ad-blocking resolver; limited SSH tunnel users
Discounts and programmes
- Promo codes
- DigitalOcean referral $10 credit
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Referral programme
- Yes DigitalOcean referral link
- Affiliate programme
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited (user configures users)
- Data limit
- none (VPS limits)
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes fully free, AGPL-3.0
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free locations
- any region of supported clouds
- Free devices
- unlimited (user-configured)
- Ads in the free plan
- No
- Other free plan terms
- commercial license exception available via opensource@trailofbits.com
Payment and subscription
- PayPal
- Partial donations only
- Cryptocurrency
- Not stated
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- No
- Phone needed to sign up
- No
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Instead of a trial
- free
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- Not stated
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- No
- Own servers
- Yes user-owned VPS
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- No
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- No
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Yes own server IP
- Static IP
- Yes own VPS
- Residential IP
- No
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- No
- Tor over VPN
- No
- SOCKS5 proxy
- No SSH tunneling option
- Smart DNS
- No
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPNexplicitly not installed✕ No
- IKEv2IPsec IKEv2 only✓ Yes
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✓ No
- Other protocols
- SSH tunneling (limited users)
- Encryption
- IKEv2 AES-GCM, SHA2, P-256; WireGuard
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Yes
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes WireGuard .conf; Apple .mobileconfig; strongSwan configs
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/trailofbits/algo (server; clients are stock WireGuard/IPsec)
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- No
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- No
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- Yes optional local DNS resolver
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes optional DNS ad blocking
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
- Certifications
- none
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No logging minimized, perfect privacy is impossible
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Data retention
- local logs rotated, deleted after 7 days; strongSwan logging can be disabled
- Shared with third parties
- No self-hosted
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes no account
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Email✓ No
- IP at sign-up✓ No
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timeslocal logs on own server✕ Yes
- Device info✓ No
- App analytics✓ No
- Crash reports✓ No
Apps and devices
- WindowsWireGuard✓ Yes
- macOSWireGuard / built-in IPsec✓ Yes
- LinuxWireGuard / strongSwan✓ Yes
- iOSWireGuard / built-in IPsec✓ Yes
- AndroidWireGuard✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TV✕ No
- RoutersOpenWrt WireGuard✓ Yes
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consoles✕ No
- Browser extensions
- No
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Speed test in the app
- No
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- No
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Email / tickets
- No GitHub Issues/Discussions
- Phone
- No
- Telegram
- No
- No
- Discord or forum
- GitHub Discussions
- Support languages
- EN
- Response time (claimed)
- No
- Help articles
- Yes docs: FAQ, troubleshooting, cloud/client guides
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- No
- SCIM provisioning
- No
- Admin panel
- No
- API
- No
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes self-hosted
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- No
- Identity providers
- No
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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Trustpilot
4.36 of 5, smoothed
From 81 collected reviews (raw average 4.79; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 5.00 from 7.
The company replied to 3 of 3 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 4.7 (81 reviews).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
45 Reddit and forum threads mention Algo VPN (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
Trustpilot · 5★ · 15 Oct 2026 · UA
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Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 03 Oct 2026 · HR
Way easier than I expected
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about Algo VPN
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Algo VPN alternatives: similar VPNs ranked by our score
6 alternatives to Algo VPN (1.72) from the same segment, by features, price and owner. Highest: WireGuard (1.82).
In our rankings
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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