Hoxx VPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Built into a browser / OS median 2.5
- Built into a browser / OS
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:Hoxx Inc
- Data completeness87%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass2.9 vs 0.5
- Price and fair terms5.0 vs 3.4
- Platforms and support4.8 vs 3.9
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Security and protocols0.0 vs 1.8
- Network and streaming2.7 vs 2.8
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
- Stores connection IP addresses
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Built into a browser / OS services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Hoxx VPNsegment 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 1.80.0
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 3.45.0
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 0.52.9
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 2.82.7
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 3.94.8
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
Hoxx VPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €1.71 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Hoxx VPN renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Lifetime | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 |
| Premium | — | — | — | — |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 7 days
- Refund conditions
- full refund within 7 days of first payment; later only if service unavailable; not for 5+ account volume licensing; USD
- Free trial
- No free plan instead
- Auto-renewal
- No no subscriptions; premium ends at period close, reverts to free
- How to cancel
- delete/close account any time
- Payment methods
- in-app: credit card; PayPal; bitcoin; litecoin; ethereum; Alipay; others (processors PayPal, Stripe, Paymentwall)
- Renewal note
- autorenew not mentioned; paid accounts end at period close and revert to free
Everything Hoxx VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Hoxx 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
- Hoxx Inc (EULA: Hoxx VPN Services)
- Registered in
- US (Florida)
- Address
- 815 Ponce De Leon Blvd, 2nd Floor (P209), Coral Gables, FL 33134, USA
- Parent company
- Hoxx Inc
- 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
- Free; Premium
- Cheapest price a month
- 1.99 (from)
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- Lifetime plan
- No free plan lifetime access
- Renewal
- autorenew not mentioned; paid accounts end at period close and revert to free
- Family plan
- No
- Business minimum seats
- 5 (volume licensing)
- Prices seen from other countries
- Premium from $1.99/month (USD); term breakdown only inside app
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- No
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- No
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Data limit
- free: daily quota; premium: unlimited
- Speed limit
- free slower
- Features locked to higher plans
- more locations, faster servers, PAC bypass, advanced malware filter, ad-tracker blocking, 24/7 email support
- Prohibited by the terms
- sites illegal in user's country
- reselling, reverse engineering
- third-party plugins -> ban
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free data
- Yes unlimited (no bandwidth restrictions)
- Free speed
- slower than premium (premium up to 100% faster)
- Free locations
- 50+
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
- Other free plan terms
- static IP, family malicious site filter, unlimited server switches
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- in-app: credit card
- PayPal
- bitcoin
- litecoin
- ethereum
- Alipay
- others (processors PayPal, Stripe, Paymentwall)
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Coins accepted
- BTC
- LTC
- ETH
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Local payment methods
- Alipay
- Auto-renewal by default
- No no subscriptions; premium ends at period close, reverts to free
- How to cancel
- delete/close account any time
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes name, email, phone, password
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 7
- Refund conditions
- full refund within 7 days of first payment
- later only if service unavailable
- not for 5+ account volume licensing
- USD
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- No free plan instead
- Instead of a trial
- free plan
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 50+ locations
- Servers
- 650+ servers (review, 2020)
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Yes claimed in free plan
- 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
- OpenVPNreview✕ No
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolbrowser add-ons use HTTP proxy tunnelling; review✕ No
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocksapps; review✓ Yes
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- Encryption
- end-to-end encryption claimed
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Not stated
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- No review
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes PAC-based IP bypass (premium)
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes malicious website filtering; ad-network tracking prevention (premium)
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No logs website usage; no no-logs claim
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- payment/hosting/email vendors
- Google Analytics
- AdSense
- DoubleClick
- other ad networks
- no sale
- Trackers on the website
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads/AdSense
- DoubleClick
- Transparency report
- No
- Warrant canary
- No
- Law enforcement requests
- cooperates with law enforcement; discloses when required
- Copyright (DMCA) notices
- Yes EULA sections 21-22
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- GDPR / data protection officer
- No
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-up✕ Yes
- Connection IPFAQ: we save logs for a certain period of time to prevent abuse; logs provided to authorities on request✕ Yes
- Session timesaccess times✕ Yes
- Device infomodel, OS, device ID, network✕ Yes
- App analyticsGoogle Analytics✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- Chromebookcoming soon✕ No
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Edge (Opera coming soon)
Speed, streaming and gaming
- Claimed speed
- premium up to 100% faster; 99% uptime
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- 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
- Yes email, contact form; Mon-Fri 8-18 ET; 24/7 premium email
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Support languages
- EN
- Response time (claimed)
- 6-24 h
- Help articles
- FAQ
- Server status page
- Not stated
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- 99% uptime claimed
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
3.57 of 5, smoothed
From 5 collected reviews (raw average 2.60; all VPNs 3.66).
The company replied to 0 of 3 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.77 of 5, smoothed
From 108 collected reviews (raw average 3.88; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
4.43 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.49; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.70 from 10.
The company replied to 0 of 38 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 2.7 (5 reviews); App Store (US) 4.22 (413 ratings); Google Play 4.2 (15.9K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
48 Reddit and forum threads mention Hoxx VPN (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★ · 09 Sep 2025 · GB
Amazing
App Store · 5★ · 09 Sep 2025 · US
Good app
App Store · 5★ · 06 Sep 2025 · US
Great VPN
Google Play · 1★ · 12 Oct 2026
Limited options
Google Play · 5★ · 24 Sep 2026
I have had a positive experience using this anti-censorship app so far.
Google Play · 5★ · 23 Sep 2026
EXIT EXIT RENTRY
Trustpilot · 2★ · 22 Feb 2025 · ID
My experience using Hoxx VPN in China
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 18 Jul 2024 · DE
BE AWARE!
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 26 Mar 2023 · EG
Worst vpn ever
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Hoxx VPN appears on 2 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://hoxx.com
- Pages checked
- https://hoxx.com; https://hoxx.com/pricing/; https://hoxx.com/privacy-policy/; https://hoxx.com/eula/; https://hoxx.com/download/
- Other sources used
- collects_connection_ip/law_enforcement_policy/traffic_limit/p2p_policy/live_chat/response_time_claimed/payment_methods/paypal/autorenew_default: https://hoxx.com/support/; browser_extensions/chromebook: https://hoxx.com/download/; shadowsocks/openvpn/kill_switch/proprietary_protocol: https://thebestvpn.com/reviews/hoxx-vpn/; servers_count: https://www.technipages.com/hoxxvpn-review
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