NetFoundry 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, 5 Eyes
- Owner:NetFoundry
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support5.7 vs 3.9
- Security and protocols2.1 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Price and fair terms1.2 vs 3.4
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
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.
NetFoundrysegment 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 3.41.2
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 2.80.0
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 3.95.7
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
NetFoundry pricing
NetFoundry does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes Free Starter package; OpenZiti open source self-hosted. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- No fees are not refundable except discontinued services
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Card needed for trial
- possibly (may be required to provide ... credit card information at sign-up)
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- credit card (self-service); monthly/annual/pay-as-you-go billing
Everything NetFoundry publishes
Every fact we collected about NetFoundry, 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
- NetFoundry
- Registered in
- US
- Address
- 101 S Tryon Street, Suite 2700, Charlotte, NC 28280, USA
- Related brands
- OpenZiti
- zrok
- Frontdoor
- zLAN
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- none
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free Starter package
- NetFoundry SaaS
- Frontdoor
- Self-Hosted (licensed)
- OpenZiti (open source)
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- 5 per endpoint (Business Basic); 15 per endpoint (Business Advanced) (third-party listing)
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Other add-ons
- LLM Gateway
- MCP Gateway
- zLAN
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes Free Starter package; OpenZiti open source self-hosted
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
- Other free plan terms
- Starter package limits not described
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- credit card (self-service); monthly/annual/pay-as-you-go billing
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No only credit card mentioned
- 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
- No fees are not refundable except discontinued services
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Instead of a trial
- Free Starter package
- Card needed for the trial
- Partial possibly (may be required to provide ... credit card information at sign-up)
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 customer/self-hosted or NetFoundry-managed overlay
- 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✕ No
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolOpenZiti overlay (outbound-only, identity-based)✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- end-to-end encrypted sessions; FIPS compliance
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/netfoundry (OpenZiti tunnelers/SDKs)
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
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
- Certifications
- FIPS compliance
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- 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.
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- WindowsZiti Desktop Edge✓ Yes
- macOSZiti Desktop Edge✓ Yes
- LinuxZiti Linux tunneler RPM/DEB/binary; Docker✓ Yes
- iOSZiti Mobile Edge✓ Yes
- AndroidZiti Mobile Edge✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersZiti edge routers: AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle marketplaces, OVA/VHD/QCOW2, Docker✓ Yes
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 5.0 (11 ratings; Ziti Mobile Edge, US)
- Google Play rating
- 5.0 (26 reviews; Ziti Mobile Edge)
- Google Play installs
- 5K+ (Ziti Mobile Edge)
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
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Yes 24x7 enterprise support
- Email / tickets
- Yes support@netfoundry.io
- Phone
- Yes +1.855.284.2007
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- community support (OpenZiti)
- Help articles
- Yes documentation
- Server status page
- Not stated
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- 99.95% (SaaS)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Admin panel
- Yes console
- API
- Yes
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes self-hosted routers / site-to-site
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes identity-based, outbound-only, services dark by default
- Identity providers
- existing IdP; SPIRE integration demo
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
3.57 of 5, smoothed
From 1 collected reviews (raw average 5.00; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
4.03 of 5, smoothed
From 7 collected reviews (raw average 5.00; all VPNs 3.90).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 5.00 (11 ratings); Google Play 5.0 (26 ratings).
58 Reddit and forum threads mention NetFoundry (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★ · 15 Jan 2021 · US
Finally good connectivity
Google Play · 5★ · 11 Aug 2025
amazing software suite highly recommend as a network tunneling solution
Google Play · 5★ · 22 Jun 2023
Simple and effective
Google Play · 5★ · 22 Jun 2023
Best Zero Trust solution! This is an exceptional application that sets a new standard for mobile security. Very easy to use and great UI. Highy recommend to…
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
NetFoundry appears on 4 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Owner and jurisdiction
Closed services NetFoundry replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://netfoundry.io
- Pages checked
- https://netfoundry.io; https://netfoundry.io/pricing/ (no pricing, solutions overview); https://netfoundry.io/documentation/
- Other sources used
- windows/macos/linux/ios/android/routers/open_source_clients: https://netfoundry.io/products/netfoundry-downloads/; protocol no values: same page (OpenZiti overlay only); price_1m: https://softwarefinder.com/cybersecurity/netfoundry (snippet); payment_methods/money_back_days/card_required_for_trial/currency: https://netfoundry.io/self-service-subscriptions-agreement/; play_rating/play_installs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openziti.mobile&hl=en_US (snippet); appstore_rating: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ziti-mobile-edge/id1460484353 (snippet)
- Pricing page: no public pricing (free Starter package; contact sales)
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