UpVPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#203 of 377 in the main ranking
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Data completeness87%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Price and fair terms4.8 vs 3.5
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
- Security and protocols2.1 vs 2.1
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 3.1
- Platforms and support3.8 vs 4.3
- Privacy and jurisdiction2.3 vs 2.7
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
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.
UpVPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.72.3
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 2.12.1
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 3.54.8
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 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 4.33.8
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
UpVPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €2.87 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, UpVPN 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 UpVPN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go (prepaid credits), Lifetime | €4.29 | €4.29 | €4.29 | €4.29 |
| Yearly, 12 mo | €34.39 | €34.39 | — | — |
Compare UpVPN’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go (prepaid credits) | Lifetime | $4.99 | — | — | — |
| Yearly | 12 mo | $39.99 | $3.33 | €2.86 | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 days
- Refund conditions
- first purchase only, within 30 days; not for upgrades, repeat or promo purchases; disconnect all devices first; App Store via Apple
- Free trial
- 7 days, iOS / Apple platforms
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe); crypto; Apple App Store; Google Play
- Renewal note
- PAYG: no subscription, balance never expires; yearly renewal terms not stated
Everything UpVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about UpVPN, 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
- upvpn LLC
- Registered in
- USA (California LLC)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN (WireGuard config tool: EN; FR; ZH; ES; AR; PT; DE; JA; HI; KO; UK; NO; SV; TH; VI; FI; ID; NL; HE)
- Right-to-left languages
- Yes config tool AR/HE
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Pay as you go; Yearly
- Billing terms
- prepaid credits; 12m
- Cheapest price a month
- $3.33
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- 1-year plan, total
- $39.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- $3.33
- Lifetime plan
- No prepaid balance never expires
- Renewal
- PAYG: no subscription, balance never expires; yearly renewal terms not stated
- Family plan
- No
- Other add-ons
- PAYG fees: 0.05 USD/session + 0.04 USD/GB + 0.02 USD/hour
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited devices; 5 concurrent sessions (PAYG) / 7 (Yearly)
- Data limit
- PAYG metered; Yearly unlimited
Free plan
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe)
- crypto
- Apple App Store
- Google Play
- Bank card
- Yes Stripe
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes in-app via App Store / Google Play
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes or Google/Apple SSO
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30
- Refund conditions
- first purchase only, within 30 days
- not for upgrades, repeat or promo purchases
- disconnect all devices first
- App Store via Apple
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 7 days
- Where the trial is offered
- iOS / Apple platforms
- 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 on-demand cloud provider servers
- 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
- WireGuardonly✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes Web Devices: WireGuard .conf / QR, single-session
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
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
- Own DNS servers
- No Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 default
- 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
- Yes cloud servers never log traffic or DNS
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- session records 1 day (Yearly) / 1 month (PAYG)
- server logs 2 weeks
- backups 7 days
- Shared with third parties
- cloud providers (WG config, deleted at session end)
- Stripe
- Apple
- Google Workspace
- Trackers on the website
- strictly necessary cookies only
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-03-08
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-upserver logs, deleted within 2 weeks✕ Yes
- Connection IPserver public IP deleted at session end✓ No
- Session timessession start/end, location✕ Yes
- Bandwidthbytes up/down for billing✕ Yes
- Device infoOS, arch, hostname/username, WG public key✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TV✓ Yes
- Apple TVtvOS✓ Yes
- Chromebook✓ Yes
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry Pi✓ Yes
- 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
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes email
- Phone
- No
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- GitHub; X
- Help articles
- Yes FAQ
- Server status page
- Yes upvpn.instatus.com
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
3.48 of 5, smoothed
From 6 collected reviews (raw average 3.00; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.83 of 5, smoothed
From 12 collected reviews (raw average 3.58; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.20 from 5.
The company replied to 3 of 4 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.47 (17 ratings); Google Play 3.3 (46 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
28 Reddit and forum threads mention UpVPN (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 · 5★ · 08 Apr 2025 · US
Excellent
App Store · 1★ · 16 Nov 2024 · US
Turns off in background
App Store · 5★ · 11 Jun 2024 · US
VPN
Google Play · 5★ · 06 Oct 2026
Its a simple and easy to use VPN tool, and good value for money.
Google Play · 5★ · 04 Oct 2026
Fast speeds and good variety of server locations
Google Play · 1★ · 03 Oct 2026
This app should have been made free at least, after watching ads you should have been allowed to connect to the server for some time and for those who want to…
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about UpVPN
Answers built from what UpVPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is UpVPN safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 2.3/10 and security 2.1/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Open-source apps
- Stores session times
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- upvpn LLC
- No-logs policy
- Yes cloud servers never log traffic or DNS
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- session records 1 day (Yearly) / 1 month (PAYG); server logs 2 weeks; backups 7 days
- Shared with third parties
- cloud providers (WG config, deleted at session end); Stripe; Apple; Google; Google Workspace
- Trackers on the website
- strictly necessary cookies only
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
Related rankings
UpVPN not working? Common causes and what to check
3 things to check, built from what UpVPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Check the provider’s status page for an outage (upvpn.instatus.com).
Try a manual configuration (Web Devices: WireGuard .conf / QR, single-session).
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- No
- Yes email
- Status page
- Yes upvpn.instatus.com
If it is blocked where you are
UpVPN refund policy: how to ask for your money back
UpVPN refund window: 30 days. Conditions: first purchase only, within 30 days; not for upgrades, repeat or promo purchases; disconnect all devices first; App Store via Apple
Refund terms
- Refund window
- 30
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Yes
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 7
Try before paying
UpVPN free trial: length, terms and payment details
UpVPN free trial: 7, iOS / Apple platforms.
Trial terms
- Length
- 7
- Card needed
- Not stated
- Refund window
- 30
Trials elsewhere
Who owns UpVPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
UpVPN is run by upvpn LLC, registered in USA (California LLC).
Company
- Registered in
- USA (California LLC)
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
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- Cheap unlimited-device VPNs#21 of 31
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- Open-source VPNs with WireGuard support#26 of 34
- Unlimited devices#26 of 62
- VPNs in Korean#26 of 39
- Cheap VPNs for Apple TV#27 of 31
- Apple TV VPNs paid with crypto#27 of 29
- Cheap VPNs for Firestick#28 of 31
- Server status pages#29 of 39
- Apple TV VPNs with 30-day refunds#31 of 35
- VPNs in Dutch#31 of 40
- WireGuard VPNs for Firestick#32 of 35
- No-logs VPNs with unlimited devices#33 of 51
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- Windows VPN trials#78 of 140
- Manual config files#80 of 118
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- Mac VPN trials#81 of 144
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://upvpn.app
- Pages checked
- ["https://upvpn.app", "https://upvpn.app/pricing/", "https://upvpn.app/privacy-policy/", "https://upvpn.app/faq/"]
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