Shieldoo review: score, privacy and prices
1.57
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Business VPN / ZTNA median 2.5
- Business VPN / ZTNA
- Jurisdiction:Czechia, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Owner:Cloudfield
- Data completeness60%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols2.9 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.3 vs 2.3
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 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.
Shieldoosegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.31.3
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 1.82.9
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 0.50.0
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 3.92.9
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
Shieldoo pricing
Shieldoo does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: self-hosted open source is free. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- No fees non-cancelable and non-refundable, T&C 7.3
- Refund conditions
- fees non-cancelable and non-refundable unless expressly stated
- Free trial
- 14 (T&C, trial version free of charge), site
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- card / bank account via Stripe (T&C)
- Renewal note
- billed monthly in arrears per active Authorized User; any change billed in full for the month (T&C)
Everything Shieldoo publishes
Every fact we collected about Shieldoo, 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
- Cloudfield Services s.r.o. (T&C; ID 14106469)
- privacy controller Cloudfield a.s. (IC 08277982)
- footer Shieldoo, Inc.
- Registered in
- Czech Republic
- Parent company
- Cloudfield
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- pay-per-use, capped at $9 per user/server per month; from $0.49 (review/directory)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- billed monthly in arrears per active Authorized User; any change billed in full for the month (T&C)
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- from $0.49, max $9 per user or server per month (Capterra listing); 3 months free promo
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- Yes partner program, 20% commission on active users monthly
- Affiliate commission
- 20% recurring on active users
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes self-hosted open source is free
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card / bank account via Stripe (T&C)
- Bank card
- Yes Stripe
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- Not stated
- 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 non-cancelable and non-refundable, T&C 7.3
- Refund conditions
- fees non-cancelable and non-refundable unless expressly stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 14 (T&C, trial version free of charge)
- Where the trial is offered
- site
- 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 backend on AWS; traffic P2P between customer nodes
- 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 protocolNebula (open source overlay)✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- AES-256; ECDH key exchange
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/shieldoo
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
- Yes via Google/Microsoft SSO
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- 15 years after end of contract (contract data); consent-based up to 10 years
- Shared with third parties
- service/payment/marketing subcontractors; no transfer outside EU
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- GDPR / data protection officer
- GDPR policy (controller Cloudfield a.s.); DPO not named
- Privacy policy updated
- 2018-05-25 (effective)
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.
- Emailidentification and contact details✕ Yes
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- WindowsWin10 21H1+/11✓ Yes
- macOS10.15+✓ Yes
- LinuxUbuntu LTS 18.04+✓ 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
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 support page: bug report, feature request, community, private support
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes contact form
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- GitHub
- Help articles
- docs.shieldoo.io
- Video guides
- Yes Vimeo setup video
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Yes web admin, users/servers/access rules, time-limited access, traffic monitoring
- API
- Yes (API Integration (CLI) in docs)
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes zero trust / SDP mesh on Nebula, certificate-based per-node access
- Identity providers
- Google Workspace; Microsoft Azure AD
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.
No reviews collected for this service.
18 Reddit and forum threads mention Shieldoo (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
In our rankings
Shieldoo appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Also similar to Shieldoo
Closed services Shieldoo 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://shieldoo.io
- Pages checked
- https://shieldoo.io; https://docs.shieldoo.io/; https://www.shieldoo.io/privacy.html; https://docs.shieldoo.io/license/; https://docs.shieldoo.io/terms_and_conditions/
- Other sources used
- price_1m/currency/business_price_per_user: https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/1034200/shieldoo; renewal_note/money_back_days/refund_conditions/payment_methods/card: https://docs.shieldoo.io/terms_and_conditions/; encryption/sso_saml/account_2fa: https://shieldoo.io; live_chat/discord_or_forum: https://docs.shieldoo.io/support/; affiliate_program/affiliate_commission: https://www.shieldoo.io/partnership.html
- Pricing page: none (no price list on site; T&C refers to price list at shieldoo.io)
- Privacy policy
- Terms of service
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