Aura VPN review: score, privacy and prices
2.14
out of 10#235 of 377 in the main ranking
VPN in a security suite median 1.8
- VPN in a security suite
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:Aura
- Data completeness80%
- Checked2026-10-15
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Network and streaming5.0 vs 2.3
- Platforms and support5.1 vs 4.2
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.0
Weakest against its segment
- Security and protocols1.4 vs 2.5
- Price and fair terms3.0 vs 3.3
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.3 vs 1.3
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of VPN in a security suite services in the main ranking (23 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Aura VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 1.31.3
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 2.51.4
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 3.33.0
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 0.00.0
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 2.35.0
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 4.25.1
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
Aura VPN pricing
From €8.60 a month
- Monthly plan: €11.18
- 8 plans published · market median €3.13 a month
Everything Aura VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Aura 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
- Aura Sub, LLC (dba Aura)
- Registered in
- USA
- Address
- 250 Northern Ave., 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02210, USA
- Parent company
- Aura
- Related brands
- Circle Media Labs (Circle); Qustodio
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Individual
- Couple
- Family
- Kids
- Billing terms
- 1; 12 months
- Cheapest price a month
- $12.00
- Monthly plan
- $15.00
- 1-year plan, total
- $144.00
- 1-year plan, a month
- $12.00
- 2-year plan, total
- No
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Renewal prices not stated; annual totals computed from per-month price
- Family plan
- Yes Couple 2 adults; Family 5 adults + unlimited kids
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD: Individual $12/mo annual or $15 monthly
- Couple $22/$29
- Family $32/$50
- Kids $10/$13 (14-day free trial, 60-day MBG on annual)
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- Yes included
- Password manager
- Yes included
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- included ($1M-$5M insurance)
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- credit monitoring
- data broker removal
- parental controls
- spam call protection
- cyber insurance up to $50K
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 50-60% (Individual 50, Couple 54, Family 60)
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Bonus months
- No
- Affiliate programme
- Yes
- Affiliate commission
- $65 per qualified enrollment
- 60-day cookie
- net-30 monthly payouts
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 10 per adult (Individual 10, Couple 20, Family unlimited)
- Country restrictions
- US-focused (identity verification, credit eligibility)
- Features locked to higher plans
- kill switch/split tunneling may not be available with all plans; Kids plan has no VPN
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- Not stated
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- How to cancel
- refund requests by phone 1-833-552-2123
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes
- Phone needed to sign up
- Yes
- Account-number login
- No
- Identity check (KYC)
- Yes identity verification; SSN for ID protection
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 60
- Refund conditions
- Annual plans bought via Aura website/support only (not Amazon, not monthly); request by phone within 60 days of initial purchase/trial start
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 14 days
- Where the trial is offered
- site
- Trial limits
- once per customer; full access depends on identity verification and credit eligibility
- Instead of a trial
- 60-day money-back (annual)
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- ~80 countries (review); site says 100+ virtual locations
- Servers
- Not stated
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Yes 100+ virtual locations
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- No
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Not stated
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardNot stated
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- AES-128 fixed (review)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- No
- Open-source apps
- No
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Not stated
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- No
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes may not be in all plans
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes by site; may not be in all plans
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes Anti-Track & Ad Blocker; Safe Browsing; VPN blocks known malicious resources
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes do not log or record online activities over VPN tied to you
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Data retention
- VPN: connection IP deleted at session end
- anonymized domain stats aggregated ~monthly
- device hashes kept
- Shared with third parties
- service providers
- affiliates (Circle Media Labs)
- co-brand partners
- ad pixels may count as sale/share
- Trackers on the website
- Yes third-party advertising cookies/pixels; GPC honored
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- no VPN activity data to share; otherwise discloses when legally required, challenges overbroad
- Anonymous sign-up
- No
- GDPR / data protection officer
- Yes Dentons Europe, Berlin; DPO.Aura.Europe@dentons.com
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-09-17 (effective 2026-10-01)
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✕ Yes
- IP at sign-updevice identifiers incl. IP✕ Yes
- Connection IPcollected at connect, encrypted, deleted at end of VPN session; used for payment fraud prevention◐ Partial
- Session timesVPN session duration logged✕ Yes
- Bandwidthbandwidth per session logged✕ Yes
- Device info✕ Yes
- App analytics✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows10+✓ Yes
- macOS12+✓ Yes
- LinuxNot stated
- iOS16+✓ Yes
- Android12+✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Yes
Speed, streaming and gaming
- Claimed speed
- 'speeds that won't slow you down'
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- mentioned (no guarantee)
- BBC iPlayer
- Yes worked in test (review)
- Disney+
- Partial worked in test, some blocks (review)
- Prime Video
- No blocked in test (review)
- Gaming features
- Yes in-game cyberbullying alerts (parental)
- Torrenting
- Yes (P2P on all servers) (review)
Support
- Live chat
- Yes (bot first, live agent on request ~1-2 min) (review)
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes help center/contact
- Phone
- Yes +1 833.552.2123; 24/7 US-based fraud specialists
- Telegram
- No
- No
- Support languages
- EN
- Help articles
- Yes
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Not stated
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Not stated
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
4.34 of 5, smoothed
From 200 collected reviews (raw average 4.51; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 4.49 from 191.
The company replied to 22 of 22 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.01 of 5, smoothed
From 500 collected reviews (raw average 2.96; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 2.96 from 183.
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Google Play
3.90 of 5, smoothed
From 4 collected reviews (raw average 4.00; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 5.00 from 1.
The company replied to 1 of 1 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 4.3 (1301 reviews); App Store (US) 4.67 (110010 ratings); Google Play 3.4 (21 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
37 Reddit and forum threads mention Aura VPN (titles and search snippets only).
Questions about Aura VPN
Answers built from what Aura VPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Aura VPN not working? Common causes and what to check
1 things to check, built from what Aura VPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Contact support: live chat, email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- Yes (bot first, live agent on request ~1-2 min) (review)
- Live chat 24/7
- 24/7 customer support claimed on pricing page
- Telegram
- No
- Mirrors or channel
- No
- Yes help center/contact
If it is blocked where you are
Aura VPN coupons and discounts: official prices and promo terms
Aura VPN publishes no promo code on its own site in what we read, so we list none. We never invent codes or copy them from coupon sites; below are the official prices.
Discounts on the official site
- Promo codes
- Not stated
- Sale running when checked
- none seen
- Discount shown
- 50-60% (Individual 50, Couple 54, Family 60)
- Bonus months
- No
- Checked
- 2026-10-15
Official prices
| Plan | First payment | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Individual, 12 mo | €123.84 | — |
| Individual, 1 mo | €12.90 | €12.90 / 1 mo |
| Couple, 12 mo | €227.04 | — |
| Couple, 1 mo | €24.94 | €24.94 / 1 mo |
| Family, 12 mo | €330.24 | — |
| Family, 1 mo | €43.00 | €43.00 / 1 mo |
| Kids (no VPN), 12 mo | €103.20 | — |
| Kids (no VPN), 1 mo | €11.18 | €11.18 / 1 mo |
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://aura.com
- Pages checked
- https://www.aura.com/; https://www.aura.com/pricing; https://www.aura.com/vpn; https://www.aura.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Other sources used
- affiliate_program/affiliate_commission: https://www.aura.com/affiliate-program; collects_connection_ip/collects_timestamps/collects_bandwidth/data_retention/adblock_malware_blocker: https://www.aura.com/privacy/vpn-products; live_chat_247/adblock_malware_blocker: https://www.aura.com/pricing; wireguard/openvpn/proprietary_protocol/encryption/countries_count/live_chat/nologs_audit/torrenting_allowed/bbc_iplayer/disney_plus/prime_video: https://www.security.org/vpn/aura/
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_main | 289 | 288 |
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 337 | 336 |