Quantumult X review: score, privacy and prices
1.32
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness40%
- Checked2026-10-15
- VLESS / Reality
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass5.7 vs 0.5
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.0 vs 2.7
- Security and protocols0.0 vs 2.1
Weakest against its segment
- Price and fair terms0.0 vs 3.5
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 3.1
- Platforms and support1.6 vs 4.3
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Consumer VPN services in the main ranking (233 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Quantumult Xsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.71.0
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 2.10.0
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 3.50.0
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 0.55.7
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 3.10.0
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 4.31.6
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
Quantumult X pricing
Quantumult X does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: No. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Quantumult X 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 | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantumult X app (one-time App Store purchase), Lifetime | €8.59 | €8.59 | €8.59 | €8.59 |
Compare Quantumult X’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term |
|---|---|---|
| Quantumult X app (one-time App Store purchase) | Lifetime | $9.99 |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 0 days
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- App Store
- Renewal note
- no subscription; one-time paid app
Everything Quantumult X publishes
Every fact we collected about Quantumult X, 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
- Cross Utility Ltd
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- Lifetime plan
- $9.99
- Renewal
- Yes subscription; one-time paid app
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- App Store US: $9.99 one-time
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- App Store
- PayPal
- Not stated
- 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
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 0 days
- 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
- No
- 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
- WireGuardnot in official sample.conf✕ No
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / Realityclient; vless/trojan with reality params in sample.conf✓ Yes
- VMessclient✓ Yes
- Trojanclient✓ Yes
- Shadowsocksclient; obfs-tls/http, ws/tls plugins✓ Yes
- Hysteria2not in official sample.conf✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- HTTP(S)
- SOCKS5
- AnyTLS (client)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes user-supplied proxy configs
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
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
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- No
- 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 IPtraffic data stays on device; developers have no access✓ No
- Session timesNot stated
- Device infoApp Store receipt, device type, CloudKit user record ID, random device ID - for purchase verification✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✕ No
- macOSApp Store: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV✓ Yes
- Linux✕ No
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✕ No
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TV✓ Yes
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 3.8 (1.7K ratings, US)
- Last app update
- v1.8.1, Oct 7 (2026)
- App languages
- English + 2 more
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
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes support@quantumult.app
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Twitter @quantumult
- 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
3.08 of 5, smoothed
From 500 collected reviews (raw average 3.04; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 10.
Reviews per month, last 12 months
50 Reddit and forum threads mention Quantumult X (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★ · 12 Oct 2026 · US
增加协议
App Store · 5★ · 08 Oct 2026 · US
Quantumult X (圈X)使用方法
App Store · 5★ · 01 Oct 2026 · US
非常好
Rankings by user reviews
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Questions about Quantumult X
Answers built from what Quantumult X publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Who owns Quantumult X? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
Quantumult X is run by Cross Utility Ltd.
Owners of similar VPNs
In our rankings
Quantumult X appears on 53 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Lifetime Shadowsocks VPNs#5 of 5
- Obfuscated + lifetime plan#7 of 8
- VLESS VPNs for Apple TV#9 of 9
- VPNs for censorship#19 of 59
- Lifetime VPNs#22 of 22
- VLESS/Reality + Shadowsocks#28 of 28
- Mac VPNs with VLESS#29 of 29
- VLESS VPNs for iPhone#30 of 30
- VLESS/Reality + obfuscated servers#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Bahrain#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for China#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Egypt#33 of 36
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- VLESS VPNs for India#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Kuwait#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Oman#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Pakistan#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Qatar#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Saudi Arabia#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for Turkey#33 of 36
- VLESS VPNs for the UAE#33 of 36
- Trojan protocol#36 of 41
- Obfuscated VPNs for Apple TV#39 of 39
- Manual config files#40 of 118
- Shadowsocks + obfuscated servers#40 of 52
- VMess#41 of 47
- VLESS / Reality#43 of 48
- Shadowsocks#56 of 73
- Xray / V2Ray#59 of 72
- VPNs for Apple TV#64 of 64
- iPhone VPNs for China#101 of 166
- iPhone VPNs for Egypt#101 of 151
- iPhone VPNs for the UAE#102 of 158
- Obfuscated VPNs#119 of 192
- VPNs for travel to China#119 of 209
- VPNs for travel to Egypt#119 of 192
- VPNs for travel to India#119 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Pakistan#119 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Turkey#119 of 196
- VPNs for travel to Bahrain#120 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Kuwait#120 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Oman#120 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Qatar#120 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Saudi Arabia#120 of 200
- VPNs for travel to the UAE#120 of 204
- Obfuscated VPNs for Mac#146 of 148
- Obfuscated VPNs for iPhone#149 of 151
- No IP logs#190 of 191
- VPNs for Mac#343 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#366 of 411
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://quantumult.app
- Pages checked
- ["https://quantumult.app (browser)", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quantumult/id1252015438 (error page)"]
- Other sources used
- plans/price/legal_entity/macos/apple_tv/rating/update/languages/shadowsocks: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quantumult-x/id1443988620; privacy fields: https://quantumult.app/x/privacy/; vless_reality/vmess/trojan/other_protocols/wireguard/hysteria2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crossutility/Quantumult-X/master/sample.conf
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 404 | 403 |