CreateYourVPN review: score, privacy and prices
1.75
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels) median 2.5
- Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels)
- Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness40%
- Checked2026-10-15
- VLESS / Reality
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass3.8 vs 0.5
- Platforms and support4.6 vs 3.9
- Security and protocols1.4 vs 1.8
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms2.9 vs 3.4
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels) services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
CreateYourVPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.30.0
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 1.81.4
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 3.42.9
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 0.53.8
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 2.80.0
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 3.94.6
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
CreateYourVPN pricing
CreateYourVPN does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes (Start — free; the first client is always free); Pro subscription charged from prepaid balance. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 0 (all payments final, balance top-ups non-refundable)
- Refund conditions
- no refunds; unused balance not refunded
- Free trial
- 3 (first Pro/Max plan, once per account)
- Card needed for trial
- No no card, no prepayment
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Card via lava.top (EUR/USD/RUB); SBP (RUB); prepaid balance top-ups €10–100
- Renewal note
- prepaid balance; Pro charged from balance; prices may change with notice
Everything CreateYourVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about CreateYourVPN, 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
- CreateYourVPN
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- RU
- ES
- FR
- DE
- IT
- PT
- NL
- PL
- TR
- UK
- CA
- CS
- DA
- EL
- FI
- HR
- HU
- ID
- MS
- NB
- RO
- SK
- SV
- VI
- TH
- HI
- JA
- KO
- ZH-Hans
- ZH-Hant
- AR
- FA
- HE (hreflang)
- Right-to-left languages
- AR/FA/HE versions (hreflang)
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free; Pro (prepaid balance, tariffs in dashboard)
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- 0.99 (Pro subscription, monthly only; plus platform fee €0.10/client/mo in base or €0.20/active client/mo, first client free; Max €4.99/mo)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- prepaid balance
- Pro charged from balance
- prices may change with notice
- Family plan
- Not stated
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Prohibited by the terms
- unlawful use, fraud, unauthorised access, malware, CSAM, spam
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes (Start — free; the first client is always free); Pro subscription charged from prepaid balance
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Card via lava.top (EUR/USD/RUB)
- SBP (RUB)
- prepaid balance top-ups €10–100
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No only card/SBP top-ups described
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 0 (all payments final, balance top-ups non-refundable)
- Refund conditions
- Yes refunds; unused balance not refunded
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 3 (first Pro/Max plan, once per account)
- Card needed for the trial
- No no card, no prepayment
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- Not stated
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- Yes self-hosted by user
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Yes panel routing
- 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 / RealityXray + Reality✓ Yes
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- Xray + Reality; OLCRTC (emergency access disguised as video call)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes self-hosted server
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Yes Reality TLS camouflage; emergency access disguised as a video call for allow-list networks
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes panel-wide rules
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes ad and torrent blocking rules
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- No self-published security report (16 verifiable claims)
- Bug bounty
- Yes own program, €100 reward shown; security portal SR-1..SR-16, reply ≤72h
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
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.
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- WindowsPC clients✓ Yes
- macOSNot stated
- LinuxNot stated
- iOSclient apps, e.g. Happ✓ Yes
- Androidclient apps✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersKeenetic guide✓ Yes
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Help articles
- Yes
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Yes user access management
- 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
3.69 of 5, smoothed
From 1 collected reviews (raw average 5.00; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 5.00 from 1.
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 3.7 (1 reviews).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
9 Reddit and forum threads mention CreateYourVPN (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 Sep 2026 · GE
I really love this VPN
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
CreateYourVPN appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://www.g2.com/categories/business-vpn
- Pages checked
- https://www.g2.com/categories/business-vpn; https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/694938/Create-Your-VPN
- Other sources used
- panel/protocols/platforms/bug bounty/languages: https://createyourvpn.com/; free tier/split/stealth: https://createyourvpn.com/academy/what-is-createyourvpn; fees/refunds/prohibitions: https://createyourvpn.com/legal/terms; price/currency/trial/payments/crypto: https://createyourvpn.com/academy/course/billing
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