NetBird 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:Germany, 14 Eyes
- Owner:NetBird GmbH
- Data completeness60%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols2.9 vs 1.8
- Platforms and support4.3 vs 3.9
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.5 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms2.9 vs 3.4
- Jurisdiction in the 14 Eyes alliance
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.
NetBirdsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.30.5
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 1.82.9
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 0.50.5
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 3.94.3
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
NetBird pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.00 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, NetBird renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Team, per user plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep NetBird 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 EUR = €1). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team, per user, 1 mo | €6.00 | €6.00 / 1 mo | €72.00 | €144.00 | €216.00 |
| Business, per user, 1 mo | €12.00 | €12.00 / 1 mo | €144.00 | €288.00 | €432.00 |
Compare NetBird’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 mo | €0.00 | €0.00 | €0.00 | 1 mo |
| Team, per user | 1 mo | €6.00 | €6.00 | €6.00 | 1 mo |
| Business, per user | 1 mo | €12.00 | €12.00 | €12.00 | 1 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Card needed for trial
- No
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Not stated
Everything NetBird publishes
Every fact we collected about NetBird, 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
- NetBird GmbH (HRB 237529 B, AG Berlin-Charlottenburg)
- Registered in
- Germany
- Address
- Rosenthaler Str. 36, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Parent company
- NetBird GmbH
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 14
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- EUR
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free
- Team
- Business
- Enterprise
- Self-Hosted (OSS)
- Billing terms
- monthly per active user
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (Free) / 6 per user
- Monthly plan
- 6 per user (Team)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- €6 (Team) / €12 (Business) per user/mo; Enterprise custom
- Business minimum seats
- none
- Other add-ons
- extra machines €0.50/mo each (Team/Business)
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 100 machines + 10/user
- Data limit
- No
- Speed limit
- No
- Features locked to higher plans
- Team: enterprise IdP SSO, SCIM, audit logs
- Business: device approvals, MDM/EDR, posture checks, traffic event logging/streaming
- Enterprise: DORA, custom SLAs
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes up to 5 users, 100 machines
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free devices
- 100 machines
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
- Other free plan terms
- P2P encryption, social SSO/MFA, access controls, private DNS, routes, NetBird SSH; community support
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
- Yes IdP/Auth0 login
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Where the trial is offered
- site (free plan / try for free)
- Card needed for the trial
- No
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 P2P; relays/management in cloud (AWS EU) or self-hosted
- 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
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolWireGuard-based overlay✕ No
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- WireGuard
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes agent/CLI, Docker; setup keys
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird (BSD-3)
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
- Own DNS servers
- Yes private DNS / nameservers
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Yes MFA
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
- Certifications
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
- DORA (trust.netbird.io)
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- until no longer needed / consent withdrawn
- Shared with third parties
- Auth0
- Brevo
- Hotjar
- New Relic
- AWS
- Clarity
- Matomo
- Cloudflare
- HubSpot
- OpenAI
- Trackers on the website
- Google Analytics/Ads
- Hotjar
- Matomo
- Clarity
- HubSpot
- Reddit pixel
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- GDPR / data protection officer
- GDPR; no DPO named (legal@netbird.io)
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
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
- Device info✕ Yes
- App analytics✕ Yes
- Crash reportsNew Relic✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOSmobile✓ Yes
- Androidmobile✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- Routers✓ 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
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes ticketing (Team+)
- Phone
- No
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Slack community; GitHub
- Help articles
- Yes docs.netbird.io
- Server status page
- Yes status.netbird.io
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- custom SLAs (Enterprise)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes enterprise IdP SSO, Team+
- SCIM provisioning
- Yes Team+
- Admin panel
- Yes
- API
- Yes automation, Terraform
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes network routes / routing peers
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes identity-based ZTNA, posture checks
- Identity providers
- Okta
- Microsoft Entra
- others
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).
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App Store
3.18 of 5, smoothed
From 42 collected reviews (raw average 2.76; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 2.75 from 8.
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Google Play
3.33 of 5, smoothed
From 124 collected reviews (raw average 3.10; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.18 from 11.
The company replied to 0 of 49 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 3.7 (1 reviews); App Store (US) 3.91 (56 ratings); Google Play 3.9 (474 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
46 Reddit and forum threads mention NetBird (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 · 4★ · 29 Sep 2026 · US
Split tunneling
App Store · 2★ · 15 Sep 2026 · DE
Auf iOS nicht empfehlenswert
App Store · 4★ · 10 Sep 2026 · DE
Ausbaufähig
Google Play · 1★ · 14 Oct 2026
Every day you have to login through a web browser. Extend session = login through web browser and... you have a 1 day session.
Google Play · 5★ · 09 Oct 2026
Setup was as easy as it gets! No issues with Android for me.
Google Play · 1★ · 04 Oct 2026
Does not launch unfortunately :(
Trustpilot · 5★ · 29 Dec 2025 · GB
Excellent remote access software
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
NetBird appears on 4 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://netbird.io
- Pages checked
- https://netbird.io/pricing; https://netbird.io; https://netbird.io/imprint; https://netbird.io/privacy
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