EdgeVPN 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:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Founded2021 (copyright)
- Owner:no
- Data completeness40%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols2.1 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
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.
EdgeVPNsegment 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 1.82.1
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 2.80.0
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 3.90.6
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
EdgeVPN pricing
EdgeVPN does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes fully free, self-hosted P2P. 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 EdgeVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about EdgeVPN, 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 Ettore Di Giacinto / mudler)
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Parent company
- No
- Related brands
- No
- Founded
- 2021 (copyright)
- 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 (token-joined peers)
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes fully free, self-hosted P2P
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- No
- Other free plan terms
- Apache-2.0
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
- Yes manual per-node virtual IP
- Residential IP
- No
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- No
- Tor over VPN
- No
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- No
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✕ No
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocollibp2p-based EdgeVPN✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✓ No
- Other protocols
- libp2p (hole punching, NAT traversal)
- Encryption
- libp2p (not described on page)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- No
- Manual configuration files
- Yes shared token / YAML config
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/mudler/edgevpn
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
- Yes embedded DNS server
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- No
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- No README: no full security audit
- 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
- LinuxCLI + alpha desktop GUI✓ Yes
- iOS✕ No
- AndroidNot stated
- 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
- No
- Discord or forum
- GitHub Discussions
- Support languages
- EN
- Response time (claimed)
- No
- Help articles
- Yes docs site
- Server status page
- No
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- No
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- No
- SCIM provisioning
- No
- Admin panel
- Yes embedded web UI
- API
- Yes api dir; Go library
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes decentralized P2P overlay; ngrok-like service tunneling
- 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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App Store
3.46 of 5, smoothed
From 4 collected reviews (raw average 2.50; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
4.10 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.13; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.13 from 400.
The company replied to 1 of 77 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.59 (610 ratings); Google Play 4.3 (112K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
45 Reddit and forum threads mention EdgeVPN (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 · 3★ · 01 May 2024 · US
bilion
App Store · 1★ · 08 Sep 2023 · US
Vpn
App Store · 1★ · 22 Aug 2023 · US
Iraq
Google Play · 5★ · 15 Oct 2026
ok kk
Google Play · 5★ · 15 Oct 2026
imtan
Google Play · 5★ · 14 Oct 2026
good
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about EdgeVPN
Answers built from what EdgeVPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
EdgeVPN alternatives: similar VPNs ranked by our score
6 alternatives to EdgeVPN (0.87) from the same segment, by features, price and owner. Highest: Tinc VPN (1.28).
In our rankings
EdgeVPN appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:
Also similar to EdgeVPN
Closed services EdgeVPN replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Tools for EdgeVPN
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://github.com/mudler/edgevpn
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