Pangolin 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:USA, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness67%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols2.1 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
- Price and fair terms2.9 vs 3.4
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 2.8
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Platforms and support3.3 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.
Pangolinsegment 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 3.42.9
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 3.93.3
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
Pangolin pricing
Pangolin does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes Basic cloud + self-hosted Community. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (Cloud) | 1 mo | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | $0.00 | 1 mo |
| Team | 1 mo | 4 per user | — | — | — | — |
| Business | 1 mo | 9 per user | — | — | — | — |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | — | — | custom | custom |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- No payments nonrefundable except as provided in ToS
- Free trial
- 10 days, site (Team/Business cloud)
- Card needed for trial
- no for Basic
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe); invoice (Enterprise)
- Renewal note
- subscriptions auto-renew via Stripe until terminated; annual billing option; cancel by emailing support
Everything Pangolin publishes
Every fact we collected about Pangolin, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Fossorial Inc.
- Registered in
- USA (Fossorial Inc.; ToS governed by California law, San Francisco courts)
- Related brands
- Pangolin; Newt (connector)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD ($)
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Basic
- Team
- Business
- Enterprise
- self-hosted Community Edition (free)
- Billing terms
- monthly per user; annual for Enterprise
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (Basic)
- Monthly plan
- 4/user (Team)
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- subscriptions auto-renew via Stripe until terminated
- annual billing option
- cancel by emailing support
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- $4 (Team) / $9 (Business) per user/mo
- Prices seen from other countries
- Cloud: Basic free (5 users)
- Team $4/user/mo
- Business $9/user/mo
- Enterprise custom
- 10-day free trial on Team/Business
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- No
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- Yes partner program (agreement)
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Features locked to higher plans
- external IdP SSO (Team+), IdP auto-provisioning (Business+), log retention, SIEM (Enterprise)
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes Basic cloud + self-hosted Community
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free devices
- 5 users, 5 sites, 5 machine clients
- Ads in the free plan
- No
- Other free plan terms
- no card
- 3-day log retention
- no external IdP
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe); invoice (Enterprise)
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- No
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- 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 payments nonrefundable except as provided in ToS
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 10 days
- Where the trial is offered
- site (Team/Business cloud)
- Instead of a trial
- free Basic plan; self-hosted CE
- Card needed for the trial
- No for Basic
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
- 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✕ No
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- HTTPS reverse proxy
- browser SSH/RDP/VNC
- NAT traversal
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes self-hosted (Docker, binary)
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin (AGPL-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
- 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
- SOC 2; ISO 27001 (trust.pangolin.net)
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- as long as reasonably needed
- Shared with third parties
- service providers, payment, marketing/ad partners (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft)
- Trackers on the website
- Google Analytics; ad pixels
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- good-faith disclosure for legal compliance
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- GDPR / data protection officer
- no DPO
- privacy@pangolin.net
- DPA available
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-06-09
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/IP✕ Yes
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
- Device infosite✕ Yes
- App analyticsGoogle Analytics on site✕ 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
- Google Play rating
- 4.6 (57 reviews)
- Google Play installs
- 5K+
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 community Slack/Discord; ticket/email support on paid plans
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Email / tickets
- Yes Team+
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Discord; Slack
- Support languages
- EN
- Help articles
- Yes docs.pangolin.net
- Video guides
- YouTube
- Server status page
- Yes status.pangolin.net
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- signed SLA (Enterprise)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- SCIM provisioning
- Yes IdP user auto-provisioning (Business+)
- Admin panel
- Yes
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes self-hosted
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes resource-based ZTNA, per resource access, identity/context aware
- Identity providers
- bring your own IdP (OIDC); IdP user/role sync
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
3.50 of 5, smoothed
From 8 collected reviews (raw average 2.50; all VPNs 3.66).
The company replied to 0 of 5 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.46 of 5, smoothed
From 2 collected reviews (raw average 1.50; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.98 of 5, smoothed
From 14 collected reviews (raw average 4.29; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.50 from 4.
The company replied to 0 of 1 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 2.7 (8 reviews); App Store (US) 4.13 (8 ratings); Google Play 4.3 (57 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
39 Reddit and forum threads mention Pangolin (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★ · 04 May 2026 · US
Can’t register on iPhone
App Store · 2★ · 10 Feb 2026 · US
Stuck at registeration
Google Play · 1★ · 05 Oct 2026
It doesn't work for me, it tries to register with the pangolin self hosted server but doesn't provide a meaningful error for why it is not working so I…
Google Play · 5★ · 01 Sep 2026
Using pangolin paired with self hosted pangolin server made the security and privacy issues just go away it's way easy to use private resources with public…
Google Play · 3★ · 06 Aug 2026
great but would really appreciate always on functionality/automatic reconnect
Trustpilot · 1★ · 20 Apr 2024 · NO
2days after my first investment i had…
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 17 Dec 2023 · SG
I was appalled to find out that the gas
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 22 Nov 2023 · CH
Very good DEX on Avalanche and listed…
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Pangolin appears on 3 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://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
- Pages checked
- https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin; https://pangolin.net/ (digpangolin.com redirects); https://pangolin.net/pricing; https://pangolin.net/privacy
- Other sources used
- renewal_note/money_back_days/registration_country: https://pangolin.net/tos; live_chat/support/discord/certifications: https://pangolin.net/faq; email_tickets/sla: https://pangolin.net/pricing; split_tunneling: https://docs.pangolin.net/manage/clients/understanding-clients; play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pangolin.Pangolin (developer Fossorial, Inc., Fairfax VA); iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pangolin-client/id6757407406 (no rating in snippet)
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