Lockwell review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Business VPN / ZTNA median 2.5
- Business VPN / ZTNA
- Jurisdiction:USA, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness60%
- Checked2026-10-15
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support6.1 vs 3.9
- Network and streaming3.2 vs 2.8
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms1.7 vs 3.4
- Security and protocols0.7 vs 1.8
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Business VPN / ZTNA services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Lockwellsegment 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 1.80.7
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 3.41.7
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 0.50.0
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 2.83.2
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 3.96.1
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
Lockwell pricing
The cheapest way in is €43.00 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Lockwell renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Lockwell running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 USD = €0.86). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Protection, 1 mo | €43.00 | €516.00at the current price | €1032.00at the current price | €1548.00at the current price |
Compare Lockwell’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Protection | 1 mo | $50.00 | $50.00 | €43.00 | 1 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Yes site
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Not stated
- Renewal note
- Monthly, no annual contracts, no setup fees; Platform from $50/mo, Fractional CISO from $2,000/mo
Everything Lockwell publishes
Every fact we collected about Lockwell, 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
- Lockwell Inc.
- Registered in
- US (New York)
- Address
- 68 Jay St, Suite 201, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Full Protection
- Billing terms
- 1m (month-to-month, no contracts)
- Cheapest price a month
- 50 per user
- Monthly plan
- 50 per user
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- Monthly, no annual contracts, no setup fees; Platform from $50/mo, Fractional CISO from $2,000/mo
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- 50 USD/user/mo (starting)
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD: Lockwell platform from $50/mo per user (unlimited devices per user)
- Fractional CISO from $2,000/mo
- no setup fees
- Password manager
- Yes included (password management listed)
- Other add-ons
- endpoint protection, AV, firewall, IDS, vuln scanning, pentest, dark web monitoring, compliance (NIST)
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited devices per user (platform plan)
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
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
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Yes
- Where the trial is offered
- site
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 50+
- Servers
- 300+
5 countries listed (the provider’s list is incomplete). A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 3
Americas 1
Middle East and Africa 1
- Server countries, as published
- Turkey; Ukraine; UAE; UK; US (Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Jose, Denver, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Secaucus, NYC, Dallas, Salt Lake City) (partial list on VPN page)
- Middle East and North Africa
- AE (UAE listed)
- also TR
- physical/virtual 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
- Not stated
- 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
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- 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
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes Safe Browsing: malicious site blocking; can block sites or require VPN
- Two-factor sign-in
- Yes
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
- Certifications
- compliance mgmt (NIST support)
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Partial claim (Browsing data never saved or sold)
- 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.
- IP at sign-upprivacy policy: IP address, device ID, location, OS, browser on Site✕ Yes
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- WindowsLockwell app Download for Windows✓ Yes
- macOSdownload page: protect your Mac devices too✓ Yes
- LinuxNot stated
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Yes mentioned in vendor reply
- Google Play installs
- 50+ (Lockwell app, co.lockwell.app; password-manager mobile app, requires account)
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
- Yes
- Live chat 24/7
- Yes 24/7 live rep
- Email / tickets
- Yes
- Phone
- Yes
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- FAQs/forum
- Support languages
- EN
- Help articles
- Yes
- Video guides
- Yes
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes SSO listed (Google Workspace sign-in)
- Admin panel
- Yes web platform
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- No dynamic VPN gateway
- Identity providers
- Google Workspace
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
3.55 of 5, smoothed
From 3 collected reviews (raw average 3.67; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.98 of 5, smoothed
From 4 collected reviews (raw average 5.00; all VPNs 3.90).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.20 (5 ratings); Google Play 4.4.
Reviews per month, last 12 months
33 Reddit and forum threads mention Lockwell (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 · 1★ · 28 Oct 2025 · US
Can’t log in
App Store · 5★ · 16 Dec 2024 · US
One of my most used apps
App Store · 5★ · 16 Dec 2024 · US
Thumbs up
Google Play · 5★ · 19 Dec 2024
Super helpful and easy to navigate
Google Play · 5★ · 11 Dec 2024
Amazing service! Lockwell gives me real-time alerts and actionable security insights.
Google Play · 5★ · 10 Dec 2024
Lockwell is intuitive, powerful, and perfect for small businesses like mine.
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Lockwell appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Owner and jurisdiction
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.capterra.com/vpn-software/", "https://www.capterra.com/p/10007285/Lockwell/"]
- Other sources used
- legal entity/address: https://www.lockwell.co/ (footer); servers/countries/locations: https://www.lockwell.co/lockwell-vpn; prices/devices/no-logs claim/safe browsing/24-7 chat: https://www.lockwell.co/pricing; privacy: https://www.lockwell.co/privacy; windows/macos: https://www.lockwell.co/download; price terms: https://www.lockwell.co/lockwell-vpn (No Annual Contracts); play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.lockwell.app&hl=en_US; iOS app exists: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockwell/id6463199948 (snippet, rating not seen)
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