OpenVPN 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
- Founded2002 (copyright 2002-2024)
- Owner:OpenVPN, Inc.
- Data completeness87%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols5.0 vs 1.8
- Platforms and support6.7 vs 3.9
- Price and fair terms4.8 vs 3.4
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
Compare OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) side by side with other VPNs
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.
OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa)segment 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 1.85.0
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 3.44.8
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 3.96.7
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
OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.02 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) renews at its standard price, the same per month as the first term. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Access Server Growth yearly, per connection plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) 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 | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Server Growth monthly, per connection, 1 mo | €7.74 | €7.74 / 1 mo | €92.88 | €185.76 | €278.64 |
| Access Server Growth yearly, per connection, 12 mo | €72.24 | €72.24 / 12 mo | €72.24 | €144.48 | €216.72 |
| CloudConnexa Essential, per seat, 1 mo | €6.02 | — | €72.24at the current price | €144.48at the current price | €216.72at the current price |
| CloudConnexa Premium, per seat, 1 mo | €8.17 | — | €98.04at the current price | €196.08at the current price | €294.12at the current price |
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Server Free | Lifetime | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | — | — |
| Access Server Growth monthly, per connection | 1 mo | $9.00 | $9.00 | €7.74 | $9.00 | 1 mo |
| Access Server Growth yearly, per connection | 12 mo | $84.00 | $7.00 | €6.02 | $84.00 | 12 mo |
| CloudConnexa Starter | 1 mo | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | — | — |
| CloudConnexa Essential, per seat | 1 mo | $7.00 | $7.00 | €6.02 | — | — |
| CloudConnexa Premium, per seat | 1 mo | $9.50 | $9.50 | €8.17 | — | — |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 days
- Refund conditions
- subscriptions refundable within 30 days of purchase; renewals not refundable except defects; fixed license keys only if not activated; email sales@openvpn.net
- Free trial
- 14 (Access Server Growth / CloudConnexa Essential & Premium); free tier forever, site
- Card needed for trial
- No
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- How to cancel
- cancel anytime; unused funds credited to account
- Payment methods
- card (credit card); invoicing
- VAT
- No customer pays applicable taxes
- Renewal note
- subscriptions; renewal terms per Product and Service Agreement
Everything OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) publishes
Every fact we collected about OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa), 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
- OpenVPN, Inc. (Delaware corporation)
- Registered in
- US
- Address
- 6200 Stoneridge Mall Road, 3rd Floor, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA
- Parent company
- OpenVPN, Inc.
- Related brands
- Access Server
- CloudConnexa
- OpenVPN Connect
- OpenVPN community (open source)
- Founded
- 2002 (copyright 2002-2024)
- 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
- Access Server: Free
- Growth
- Enterprise. CloudConnexa: Free (5 seats) + paid
- Billing terms
- monthly; yearly (save $240 on Growth example)
- Cheapest price a month
- 7 per connection
- Monthly plan
- 7 per connection/month (starting)
- 1-year plan, a month
- 7 per connection/month billed yearly (Access Server Growth; e.g. $70/mo for 10 connections)
- Lifetime plan
- No fixed license keys exist
- Renewal
- subscriptions; renewal terms per Product and Service Agreement
- VAT included
- No customer pays applicable taxes
- Family plan
- No
- Business price per user
- from 7 USD per concurrent connection/month
- Business minimum seats
- 2 connections (Access Server)
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD: Access Server Growth $9/connection/mo monthly, $7/connection/mo billed yearly (save $240 for 10 conn); CloudConnexa Starter free, Essential $7/seat/mo, Premium $9.50/seat/mo
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- CloudConnexa: content filtering (40+ categories), IDS/IPS
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- yearly saving ($240 on Growth example)
- Discount compared with
- monthly billing
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Referral programme
- Yes customer referral program
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Country restrictions
- US export control laws
- Features locked to higher plans
- Growth/Enterprise: SAML/SSO, LDAP/RADIUS, clustering, REST API, priority support (exact matrix JS-rendered)
- Prohibited by the terms
- account sharing, reverse engineering, harvesting, malware, spam, illegal use
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free data
- Yes unlimited
- Free devices
- Access Server 2 concurrent connections; CloudConnexa 5 seats
- Ads in the free plan
- No
- Other free plan terms
- no credit card required
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (credit card); invoicing
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- How to cancel
- cancel anytime; unused funds credited to account
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30
- Refund conditions
- subscriptions refundable within 30 days of purchase
- renewals not refundable except defects
- fixed license keys only if not activated
- email sales@openvpn.net
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 14 (Access Server Growth / CloudConnexa Essential & Premium); free tier forever
- Where the trial is offered
- site
- Trial limits
- 2 connections (AS) / 5 seats (CloudConnexa)
- 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
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Yes
- 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✓ Yes
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocolOpenVPN (DCO data channel offload)✓ Yes
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- PPTP✓ No
- Other protocols
- IPsec (CloudConnexa site connections)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes ovpn profiles (import via URL)
- Open-source apps
- Yes OpenVPN community open source
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
- Yes OpenVPN Connect App Kill Switch on Android/iOS since Nov 2021; Seamless Tunnel on desktop
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- Yes secure DNS (CloudConnexa)
- Split tunnelling
- Yes domain-based routing
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes CloudConnexa content filtering, IDS/IPS
- Two-factor sign-in
- Yes TOTP MFA, Duo, Google Authenticator
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Yes vulnerability disclosure policy
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- HIPAA
- GDPR
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No session/connection logs, access & DNS logs, log streaming are features
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- trusted third parties operating business
- card processor
- may list customers in marketing
- Trackers on the website
- cookies via consent management platform
- Transparency report
- No
- Warrant canary
- No
- Law enforcement requests
- releases info to comply with law
- Anonymous sign-up
- No
- GDPR / data protection officer
- no DPO named; privacy@openvpn.net
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-upwebsite logs: source IP, user agent✕ Yes
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timessession logs (customer)✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linuxserver: RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookChromeOS, CloudConnexa✓ Yes
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersOpenVPN-capable routers✓ Yes
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- No
Speed, streaming and gaming
- Claimed speed
- DCO fastest VPN protocol
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Fastest protocol (claimed)
- OpenVPN with DCO
- 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 site messaging widget with guided chat: support/sales
- Live chat 24/7
- No 24/7 technical support portal
- Email / tickets
- Yes support portal 24/7
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Help articles
- Yes support.openvpn.com
- Server status page
- Yes status.openvpn.com
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- SLA document (Enterprise)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes SAML/SSO in Access Server
- Admin panel
- Yes Admin Web UI / Access Server Hub; CloudConnexa admin portal
- API
- Yes REST API
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes self-hosted gateways; CloudConnexa connectors
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes CloudConnexa Zero Trust: posture checks, micro-segmentation
- Identity providers
- LDAP
- RADIUS
- SAML
- Duo
- LastPass
- iVALT
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
3.39 of 5, smoothed
From 10 collected reviews (raw average 2.00; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 1.00 from 1.
The company replied to 0 of 7 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
2.95 of 5, smoothed
From 814 collected reviews (raw average 2.92; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 2.67 from 3.
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Google Play
4.04 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.05; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.78 from 18.
The company replied to 9 of 81 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 2.3 (10 reviews); App Store (US) 4.84 (40029 ratings); Google Play 4.1 (55.4K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
54 Reddit and forum threads mention OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) (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★ · 11 Oct 2026 · US
How do I make a bug report?
App Store · 4★ · 17 Sep 2026 · US
Why No Haptic Touch / Quick Actions?
App Store · 1★ · 13 Aug 2026 · US
makes my internet slow
Google Play · 5★ · 09 Oct 2026
Nice vpn
Google Play · 1★ · 04 Oct 2026
no longer I have no connection.
Google Play · 5★ · 03 Oct 2026
good
Trustpilot · 1★ · 21 Aug 2026 · GB
Totally useless
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 10 Jun 2025 · GR
Extremely laggy
Original reviewTrustpilot · 4★ · 10 Jun 2025 · SG
Buono ma da implementare
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Questions about OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa)
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6 alternatives to OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) (2.46) from the same segment, by features, price and owner. Highest: Connectasec (1.90).
Alternatives to OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa)
| # | Service | Score | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connectasec | 1.90 | €5.00per month |
| 2 | Netskope Private Access | 1.80 | — |
| 3 | Shieldoo | 1.57 | — |
| 4 | NetFoundry | 1.19 | — |
| 5 | MicroZAccess (COSGrid) | 0.93 | €4.30per month |
| 6 | Phoenix Contact mGuard | 0.83 | — |
In our rankings
OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa) appears on 4 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Tools for OpenVPN (Access Server / CloudConnexa)
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://openvpn.net
- Pages checked
- https://openvpn.net/; https://openvpn.net/access-server/pricing/ (webfetch + browser); https://openvpn.net/cloud-vpn/; https://openvpn.net/privacy-policy/; https://openvpn.net/legal/
- Other sources used
- price_12m_pm/plans/browser prices: https://openvpn.net/access-server/pricing/; CloudConnexa plans/countries_count: https://openvpn.net/cloud-vpn/pricing/; kill_switch: https://blog.openvpn.net/vpn-kill-switch/ and https://openvpn.net/connect-docs/tutorials/tutorial--turn-on-seamless-tunnel-to-ensure-secure-internet-browsing.html; live_chat: https://openvpn.net/access-server/pricing/ (chat widget)
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