Drago review: score, privacy and prices

0.94

out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Mesh / self-hosted median 2.5

  • Mesh / self-hosted
  • Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
  • Owner:no
  • Data completeness47%
  • Checked2026-10-15
  • Free plan
  • Open-source apps

In 10 seconds

Strongest against its segment

  • Security and protocols2.5 vs 1.8
  • Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
  • Price and fair terms2.1 vs 3.4

Weakest against its segment

  • Platforms and support0.6 vs 3.9
  • Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
  • Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3

Compare Drago side by side with other VPNs

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.

Dragosegment median

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.90.6
    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

Drago pricing

Drago does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes fully free, self-hosted. 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
Renewal note
No

Everything Drago publishes

Every fact we collected about Drago, 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
none (individual maintainer seashell)
Registered in
Not stated
Parent company
No
Related brands
No
Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
Not stated
Website languages
EN
Right-to-left languages
No
Currencies on the site
none
Prices depend on country
No

Plans, prices and add-ons
Plans
free open source
Cheapest price a month
0
Monthly plan
0
1-year plan, total
0
1-year plan, a month
0
2-year plan, total
0
2-year plan, a month
0
Lifetime plan
No
Renewal
Yes
Family plan
Not stated
Antivirus
No
Password manager
No
eSIM
No
Identity protection
No
Cloud storage
No
Other add-ons
No

Discounts and programmes
Discount shown
No
Promo codes
No
Sale running when checked
No
Student discount
Not stated
Bonus months
No
Referral programme
No
Affiliate programme
No

Limits and restrictions
Devices at once
unlimited (self-hosted nodes)

Free plan
Free plan
Yes fully free, self-hosted
Free data
Not stated
Ads in the free plan
No
Other free plan terms
Apache-2.0 open source

Payment and subscription
PayPal
Not stated
Cryptocurrency
Not stated
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
Identity check (KYC)
No
Money-back guarantee, days
Not stated

Free trial terms
Trial length
Not stated
Instead of a trial
free open source
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
Not stated
P2P servers
Not stated
Obfuscated servers
No

Network features
RAM-only servers
Not stated
IPv6
Not stated
Dedicated IP
Not stated
Static IP
Not stated
Residential IP
No
Double VPN / multi-hop
No
Tor over VPN
No
SOCKS5 proxy
No
Smart DNS
No

Protocols and encryption
  • WireGuardkernel, wireguard-go or boringtun✓ Yes
  • OpenVPN✕ No
  • IKEv2✕ No
  • 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
No
Encryption
WireGuard (ChaCha20-Poly1305)
Perfect forward secrecy
Yes WireGuard
Post-quantum encryption
No
Manual configuration files
Yes managed WireGuard configs via agent/CLI
Open-source apps
Yes https://github.com/seashell/drago

Censorship and blocking
Obfuscation (stealth mode)
No
Countries it claims to work in
No
Mirror sites or Telegram channel
No
Calls in the UAE
Not stated

Security
Kill switch
No
DNS leak protection
No
Own DNS servers
No
Split tunnelling
Not stated
Ad and malware blocker
No
Two-factor sign-in
Not stated
Security audits
No
Bug bounty
No
Certifications
No

Privacy
No-logs policy
Not stated
Independent no-logs audit
No
Transparency report
No
Warrant canary
No
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
  • WindowsNot stated
  • macOSNot stated
  • LinuxGo binary, Docker✓ Yes
  • iOS✕ No
  • Android✕ No
  • Android TV✕ No
  • Fire TV✕ No
  • Apple TV✕ No
  • Chromebook✕ No
  • Smart TV✕ No
  • RoutersNot stated
  • NASNot stated
  • Raspberry PiNot stated
  • Game consoles✕ No
Browser extensions
No

Speed, streaming and gaming
Claimed speed
No
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
Phone
No
Telegram
No
WhatsApp
No
Discord or forum
GitHub Discussions; Gitter
Support languages
EN
Response time (claimed)
No
Help articles
Yes docs
Video guides
No
Server status page
No
Uptime guarantee (SLA)
No

For teams and business
SSO / SAML
No
SCIM provisioning
No
Admin panel
Yes web dashboard
API
Yes REST API + CLI
Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
Yes overlay mesh with ACL policies/tokens
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.

  • App Store

    3.56 of 5, smoothed

    From 1000 collected reviews (raw average 3.56; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.54 from 574.

Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.76 (809122 ratings).

Reviews per month, last 12 months

  1. Oct ’257 reviews, average 4.86
  2. Nov ’2517 reviews, average 3.71
  3. Dec ’2534 reviews, average 3.62
  4. Jan ’2620 reviews, average 3.8
  5. Feb ’2624 reviews, average 3.5
  6. Mar ’2621 reviews, average 3.57
  7. Apr ’2610 reviews, average 3.7
  8. May ’2633 reviews, average 2.91
  9. Jun ’2631 reviews, average 3.29
  10. Jul ’2627 reviews, average 3.3
  11. Aug ’26268 reviews, average 3.62
  12. Sep ’26198 reviews, average 3.39
  13. Oct ’2693 reviews, average 3.65
Bar height: number of reviews collected that month. Full-colour bars: months with an average of 4 stars or more; pale bars: below 4.

32 Reddit and forum threads mention Drago (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.

  • App Store · 5★ · 13 Oct 2026 · GB

    Must get for dragon ball fans

  • App Store · 2★ · 13 Oct 2026 · GB

    Really mid dragon ball game now

  • App Store · 1★ · 13 Oct 2026 · GB

    MOST INFURIATING GAME

Rankings by user reviews

Reviews of similar VPNs

Questions about Drago

Answers built from what Drago publishes. Open a question to read the details.

Drago alternatives: similar VPNs ranked by our score

6 alternatives to Drago (0.94) from the same segment, by features, price and owner. Highest: cunicu (1.33).

Alternatives to Drago

6 alternatives: similar features
#ServiceScore
1cunicu
Mesh / self-hosted · Germany Free plan
1.33
2innernet
Mesh / self-hosted · jurisdiction not stated Free plan
1.30
3EdgeVPN
Mesh / self-hosted · jurisdiction not stated Free plan
0.87
4VpnCloud
Mesh / self-hosted · jurisdiction not stated Free plan
0.87
5IPFire
Mesh / self-hosted · jurisdiction not stated Free plan
0.84
6ZTNET
Mesh / self-hosted · jurisdiction not stated Free plan
0.67

In our rankings

Drago appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:

Similar VPNs

Also similar to Drago

Closed services Drago replaces

Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.

Tools for Drago

Sources and changes

Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.

Website
https://github.com/seashell/drago

    Something wrong or out of date? Report an error