Outline VPN 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:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Owner:Outline Foundation (originally Jigsaw / Google)
- Data completeness60%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass3.3 vs 0.5
- Privacy and jurisdiction3.3 vs 2.3
- Security and protocols2.5 vs 1.8
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Price and fair terms2.1 vs 3.4
- Platforms and support2.9 vs 3.9
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.
Outline VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.33.3
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 1.82.5
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 3.42.1
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 0.53.3
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 3.92.9
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
Outline VPN pricing
Outline VPN does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes fully free software; own server costs. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
All plans as published
| Plan |
|---|
| Free open-source (self-hosted) |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Not stated
Everything Outline VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Outline 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
- Outline Foundation (non-profit)
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Parent company
- Outline Foundation (originally Jigsaw / Google)
- Related brands
- Jigsaw; Outline SDK
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- 64 incl. EN
- ZH-CN
- ZH-TW
- ES
- PT
- AR
- HI
- JA
- KO
- RU
- Right-to-left languages
- Yes Arabic
- Currencies on the site
- none
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- free (self-hosted)
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (+ own server)
- Monthly plan
- 0 (free software; user pays own cloud server)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- No
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited by software (admin shares access keys from own server)
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes fully free software; own server costs
- Free data
- Yes unlimited (self-hosted)
- Ads in the free plan
- No
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
- No
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
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 user's own server
- 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
- IKEv2Shadowsocks-based✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolShadowsocks-based look-like-nothing handshake-less protocol✕ No
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- Shadowsocksoutline-server runs a Shadowsocks instance; AEAD ChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305✓ Yes
- Hysteria2Shadowsocks-based✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- AEAD ChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305 (256-bit)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes access keys (ss:// style) shared from Outline Manager
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/OutlineFoundation
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Yes blocking-resistant, claim
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- No official Telegram (warns @OutlineVpnOfficial is fake)
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- No on desktop (GitHub feature request #2570 Kill Switch for desktop closed as duplicate, i.e. not built-in)
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- No DNS via Dyn Internet Guide, OpenDNS, Cloudflare or Quad9; not logged
- Split tunnelling
- No built-in (GitHub feature request outline-server #1035 Split tunnel)
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Yes Radically Open Security (2018, 2022); Cure53 (2018, 2024)
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes server stores no logs; never logs DNS lookups; only bytes transferred per access key
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes access keys, no account
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 IPserver stores no logs✓ No
- Session timesNot stated
- Bandwidthbytes transferred per access key, for admin✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- 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
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 4.2 (1.5K ratings, US; Outline App)
- Google Play rating
- 4.3 (29.6K reviews)
- Google Play installs
- 5M+
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
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- GitHub
- Help articles
- Yes support.getoutline.org
- Server status page
- Not stated
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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App Store
3.50 of 5, smoothed
From 168 collected reviews (raw average 3.49; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 2.
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Google Play
4.06 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.08; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.81 from 21.
The company replied to 0 of 69 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.22 (1507 ratings); Google Play 4.3 (29.6K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
51 Reddit and forum threads mention Outline 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 · 1★ · 02 Sep 2026 · US
👎不推荐 不推荐 不推荐❌
App Store · 5★ · 25 Jul 2026 · US
ADD support IOS “COMMANDS”
App Store · 5★ · 26 Jun 2026 · US
cool app
Google Play · 4★ · 10 Oct 2026
love
Google Play · 1★ · 06 Oct 2026
not working.
Google Play · 5★ · 29 Sep 2026
Good and stable for Myanmar
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Outline 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://getoutline.org
- Pages checked
- ["https://getoutline.org"]
- Other sources used
- shadowsocks/open_source_clients: https://github.com/OutlineFoundation; encryption/audits/nologs_audit/collects_bandwidth: https://support.getoutline.org/about/security-and-privacy; nologs_claim/collects_connection_ip/own_dns: https://support.getoutline.org/about/how-outline-works; proprietary_protocol/stealth: https://getoutline.org/faq/; kill_switch: https://github.com/OutlineFoundation/outline-apps/issues/2570; split_tunneling: https://github.com/OutlineFoundation/outline-server/issues/1035 (snippet); play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.outline.android.client (developer Outline Foundation); appstore: SERP snippet https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outline-app/id1356177741 (4.2 out of 5 1.5K)
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