Avast SecureLine VPN review: score, privacy and prices
2.88
out of 10#124 of 377 in the main ranking
VPN in a security suite median 1.8
- VPN in a security suite
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:Gen Digital
- Data completeness87%
- Checked2026-10-15
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols5.0 vs 2.5
- Censorship bypass1.9 vs 0.0
- Network and streaming3.1 vs 2.3
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.0 vs 1.3
- Price and fair terms3.4 vs 3.3
- Platforms and support4.7 vs 4.2
- Renewal price is 2.1× the first term
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Trial needs a card
- Stores session times
- Auto-renewal on by default
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.
Avast SecureLine VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 1.31.0
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 2.55.0
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 3.33.4
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 0.01.9
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 2.33.1
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 4.24.7
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
Avast SecureLine VPN pricing
From €3.43 a month, ×2.1 at renewal
- 3 plans published · market median €3.13 a month
Everything Avast SecureLine VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Avast SecureLine 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
- Gen Digital Inc. (Avast)
- Registered in
- USA (Gen Digital); Avast originally Czech Republic
- Parent company
- Gen Digital
- Related brands
- Avast One
- AVG
- Norton
- Avira
- CCleaner
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- many country-language sites incl. EN
- ES
- PT
- FR
- DE
- JA
- KO
- ZH
- AR
- RU
- Currencies on the site
- USD (US)
- Prices depend on country
- Yes regional sites
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Premium VPN (SecureLine)
- Billing terms
- 1 year
- 2 years
- 3 years
- Cheapest price a month
- $3.99
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- 1-year plan, total
- $59.88
- 1-year plan, a month
- $4.99
- 2-year plan, total
- $95.76
- 2-year plan, a month
- $3.99
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Renews at then-current price ($99.99/yr stated), charged up to 35 days before anniversary; prices may increase
- Family plan
- No
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- Yes included
- Antivirus
- Yes via Avast One bundles
- eSIM
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- IP rotation; tracker blocking
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 40% (1y), 51% (2y/3y)
- Discount compared with
- vs renewal price $99.99/yr
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Discount for crypto payment
- No
- Bonus months
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 10
- Speed limit
- No up to 2 Gbps claim
- Torrenting / P2P policy
- Yes allowed on P2P-marked servers
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- bank card; PayPal
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- How to cancel
- Avast Account
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes
- Account-number login
- No
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30
- Refund conditions
- within 30 days of initial purchase or renewal anniversary
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 60 days
- Where the trial is offered
- Windows
- Mac
- Android
- iOS
- Trial limits
- card required, charged after trial
- Instead of a trial
- 30-day money-back
- Card needed for the trial
- Yes $0 at checkout
Server locations
- Countries
- 74 (100+ locations)
- Servers
- Not stated
- Cities
- ~116
5 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 3
Americas 2
- Server countries, as published
- 74 countries listed on page (US 25 cities, UK 5, CA/DE/IT 4)
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Port speed
- up to 2 Gbps
- P2P servers
- Yes
- Streaming servers
- No dedicated
- Obfuscated servers
- Yes proprietary protocol for blocked networks
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
- Yes Double VPN
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardNot stated
- OpenVPNUDP✓ Yes
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocolunnamed, for blocked networks✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✓ No
- Other protocols
- IPsec (iOS/macOS)
- Encryption
- AES-256
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- No
- Open-source apps
- No
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Yes proprietary protocol where VPN blocked
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes
- DNS leak protection
- Yes
- Split tunnelling
- Yes
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes tracker blocking
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Yes coordinated vulnerability disclosure
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Partial don't log activity that could be traced back to you
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- connection events 12 mo
- server/app data 18 mo
- crash 90 days
- account lifetime+2y
- Shared with third parties
- Google Firebase/Crashlytics
- Singular
- AppsFlyer
- Trackers on the website
- Yes cookie preferences; Do not sell
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- not addressed in VPN policy
- Anonymous sign-up
- No
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-05-07 (VPN policy)
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.
- Emaillifetime + 2y✕ Yes
- Connection IPoriginating IP not collected✓ No
- Session timesconnection events 12 mo✕ Yes
- Bandwidthcumulative MB, 18 mo✕ Yes
- Device infomodel, OS, app version, network type✕ Yes
- App analytics(Firebase, AppsFlyer, Singular), 18 mo✕ Yes
- Crash reportsuser-sent, 90 days✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✕ No
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVGoogle TV/Android TV 10+✓ Yes
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVGoogle TV✓ Yes
- Routers✕ No
- NAS✕ No
- Raspberry Pi✕ No
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
Speed, streaming and gaming
- Claimed speed
- up to 2x faster (internal testing); up to 2 Gbps
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- No specific claim
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Yes P2P servers
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Phone
- Yes 855-745-3255
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Help articles
- Yes support.avast.com
- 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
3.82 of 5, smoothed
From 200 collected reviews (raw average 3.87; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 3.87 from 200.
The company replied to 0 of 48 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.35 of 5, smoothed
From 1456 collected reviews (raw average 3.34; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 2.46 from 28.
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 4.3 (41604 reviews); App Store (US) 4.66 (23777 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
41 Reddit and forum threads mention Avast SecureLine VPN (titles and search snippets only).
Questions about Avast SecureLine VPN
Answers built from what Avast SecureLine VPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Avast SecureLine VPN not working? Common causes and what to check
2 things to check, built from what Avast SecureLine VPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Switch protocol in the app: Avast SecureLine VPN lists OpenVPN, Own protocol.
If the network blocks VPNs, turn on obfuscation (proprietary protocol where VPN blocked).
If it is blocked where you are
Troubleshooting of similar VPNs
In our rankings
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- Trial VPNs with double VPN#9 of 16
- Torrenting + double VPN#12 of 16
- Bug bounty#15 of 24
- Smart TV VPN free trials#15 of 24
- VPN with antivirus#16 of 45
- OpenVPN + double VPN#17 of 31
- Obfuscated VPNs for Smart TV#19 of 23
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- Money-back guarantee + double VPN#20 of 22
- Double VPN, 50+ countries#21 of 22
- Android TV VPNs for torrenting#21 of 28
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- Double VPN + ad blocker#25 of 31
- Ad blocker, 50+ countries#25 of 52
- Android TV VPNs with ad blocking#25 of 30
- Android TV VPN free trials#25 of 35
- Smart TV VPNs with a kill switch#25 of 30
- Torrenting + ad blocker#26 of 30
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- Torrenting, 50+ countries#31 of 33
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- Obfuscated VPNs for Android TV#35 of 44
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- OpenVPN + ad blocker#36 of 59
- Android TV VPNs with 30-day refunds#36 of 41
- Double VPN#38 of 57
- Kill switch + ad blocker#38 of 70
- US-based VPNs#38 of 107
- Ad blocker#39 of 129
- OpenVPN, 50+ countries#41 of 78
- Android TV VPNs with a kill switch#41 of 49
- Mac VPNs for torrenting#41 of 92
- Torrenting + money-back guarantee#41 of 52
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- Kill switch, 50+ countries#41 of 88
- DNS leak protection#42 of 124
- Split tunneling VPNs for Android TV#42 of 48
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- Trial VPNs in 50+ countries#43 of 62
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- Mac VPN trials#51 of 144
- Windows VPN trials#51 of 140
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- Android VPN free trials#55 of 160
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- Windows VPNs with ad blocking#63 of 99
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://avast.com/secureline-vpn
- Pages checked
- https://www.avast.com/secureline-vpn; https://www.avast.com/products-policy; https://www.avast.com/vpn-policy
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