Twingate 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, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support4.3 vs 3.9
- Security and protocols1.8 vs 1.8
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Network and streaming0.6 vs 2.8
- Price and fair terms2.9 vs 3.4
- Stores connection IP addresses
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.
Twingatesegment 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 1.81.8
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 0.50.0
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 2.80.6
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 3.94.3
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
Twingate pricing
The cheapest way in is €4.30 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Twingate renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Twingate 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home (up to 7 users, non-commercial), 1 mo | €12.90 | €154.80at the current price | €309.60at the current price | €464.40at the current price |
| Teams, per user, 1 mo | €4.30 | €51.60at the current price | €103.20at the current price | €154.80at the current price |
| Business, per user, 1 mo | €8.60 | €103.20at the current price | €206.40at the current price | €309.60at the current price |
Compare Twingate’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter (up to 5 users) | 1 mo | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | $0.00 | 1 mo |
| Home (up to 7 users, non-commercial) | 1 mo | $15.00 | $15.00 | €12.90 | — | — |
| Teams, per user | 1 mo | $5.00 | $5.00 | €4.30 | — | — |
| Business, per user | 1 mo | $10.00 | $10.00 | €8.60 | — | — |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 14 days, site (Home/Teams/Business)
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- credit card; invoice (Enterprise)
- Renewal note
- auto-renewing subscription; cancel renewal by switching to free Starter plan in Admin Console, plan ends at end of current term
Everything Twingate publishes
Every fact we collected about Twingate, 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
- Twingate Inc.
- Registered in
- USA (Redwood City, CA)
- 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
- Starter
- Home
- Teams
- Business
- Enterprise
- Billing terms
- monthly; yearly (-15%)
- Cheapest price a month
- $5.00
- Monthly plan
- 6 per user (Teams, monthly billing)
- Business 12 per user
- Home 15
- 1-year plan, a month
- 5 per user (Teams, yearly billing); Business 10 per user
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- auto-renewing subscription; cancel renewal by switching to free Starter plan in Admin Console, plan ends at end of current term
- Family plan
- Yes Home $15/mo up to 7 users (non-commercial)
- Business price per user
- 5 USD (Teams) / 10 USD (Business) per user/mo; Enterprise custom
- Prices seen from other countries
- Monthly: Home $15/mo
- Teams $6/user/mo
- Business $12/user/mo
- Yearly: Teams $5/user/mo
- Business $10/user/mo (-15%)
- Starter free
- Enterprise custom
- Dedicated IP add-on
- Yes Static IPs add-on (Enterprise)
- Other add-ons
- DNS filtering add-on; additional support options
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 15% (yearly)
- Discount compared with
- vs monthly
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 5 per user
- Features locked to higher plans
- user caps 5/7/100/500
- SSO Okta/Entra & SCIM from Business
- Exit Networks Home/Business+
- geoblocking/static IP Enterprise
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes Starter
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free devices
- 5 users, 5 devices/user, 10 remote networks, 50 resources
- Ads in the free plan
- No
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- credit card; invoice (Enterprise)
- 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
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 14 days
- Where the trial is offered
- site (Home/Teams/Business)
- 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
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Yes
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Yes Enterprise add-on
- 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 stated
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolTwingate client-connector tunnel (TLS-based, session key via connector self-signed cert; P2P or via relays)✓ Yes
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- end-to-end encryption
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- 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
- Yes
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Yes MFA
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- 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 IPdevice/network info incl. IP address, usage incl. bandwidth and session times✕ Yes
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- Chromebook✓ Yes
- 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 via ticket system
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes twingate.com/support
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Support languages
- EN
- Server status page
- Yes status.twingate.com
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- custom SLAs (Enterprise)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Yes Google Workspace on Teams; Okta, Entra ID etc. on Business
- SCIM provisioning
- Yes Okta, Entra ID, JumpCloud
- Admin panel
- Yes admin roles: Admin, DevOps, Support, Access Reviewer
- Dedicated gateway
- Yes self-hosted Connectors; Exit Networks; dedicated relay (Premium tier, Enterprise)
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes zero trust network access, peer-to-peer, device posture
- Identity providers
- Okta
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Google Workspace
- JumpCloud
- social login
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
3.65 of 5, smoothed
From 1 collected reviews (raw average 3.00; all VPNs 3.66).
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App Store
3.52 of 5, smoothed
From 6 collected reviews (raw average 3.33; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.52 of 5, smoothed
From 92 collected reviews (raw average 3.32; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 8.
The company replied to 0 of 32 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 3.4 (1 reviews); App Store (US) 4.38 (34 ratings); Google Play 3.8 (291 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
38 Reddit and forum threads mention Twingate (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★ · 24 Jun 2026 · US
Needs better notifications
App Store · 4★ · 08 Dec 2025 · US
Works well when authenticating prior to connection
App Store · 3★ · 22 Jul 2025 · US
Will not open after update.
Google Play · 1★ · 06 Oct 2026
enables vpn before authentication making any site unreachable including the authentication page ? !!! how are we supposed to use it then ?
Google Play · 3★ · 27 Sep 2026
Help. The information said that my Pocopone F1 is still compatible with the app but I can't update anymore.
Google Play · 4★ · 26 Sep 2026
it's not updating.
Trustpilot · 3★ · 02 Dec 2023 · CZ
Very bad experience
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
In our rankings
Twingate appears on 4 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://twingate.com
- Pages checked
- https://www.twingate.com/pricing
- Other sources used
- price_1m, price_12m_pm, payment_methods: https://www.twingate.com/pricing; renewal_note: https://www.twingate.com/docs/subscription-cancellation; proprietary_protocol: https://www.twingate.com/docs/how-encryption-works-in-twingate; nologs_claim, collects_connection_ip, legal_entity, registration_country: https://www.twingate.com/privacy; live_chat, support_languages: https://www.twingate.com/support
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