VALT review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#299 of 377 in the main ranking
Decentralised (dVPN) median 2.9
- Decentralised (dVPN)
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:HashCash, Inc.
- Data completeness80%
- Checked2026-10-15
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Price and fair terms2.8 vs 2.8
- Security and protocols2.5 vs 2.9
- Network and streaming1.2 vs 1.9
Weakest against its segment
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 2.4
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.0 vs 2.7
- Platforms and support2.8 vs 3.6
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Auto-renewal on by default
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Decentralised (dVPN) services in the main ranking (15 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
VALTsegment 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 2.92.5
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 2.82.8
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 2.40.0
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 1.91.2
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 3.62.8
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
VALT pricing
The cheapest way in is €2.87 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, VALT renews at its standard price, the same per month as the first term. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, VALT DVPN yearly plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep VALT 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 | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VALT DVPN monthly, 1 mo | €4.29 | €4.29 / 1 mo | €51.50 | €102.99 | €154.49 |
| VALT DVPN yearly, 12 mo | €34.39 | €34.39 / 12 mo | €34.39 | €68.78 | €103.17 |
| Data removal yearly, 12 mo | €103.19 | €103.19 / 12 mo | €103.19 | €206.38 | €309.57 |
| VALTIMATE yearly, 12 mo | €206.39 | €206.39 / 12 mo | €206.39 | €412.78 | €619.17 |
Compare VALT’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VALT DVPN monthly | 1 mo | $4.99 | $4.99 | €4.29 | $4.99 | 1 mo |
| VALT DVPN yearly | 12 mo | $39.99 | $3.33 | €2.86 | $39.99 | 12 mo |
| Data removal yearly | 12 mo | $119.99 | $10.00 | €8.60 | $119.99 | 12 mo |
| VALTIMATE yearly | 12 mo | $239.99 | $20.00 | €17.20 | $239.99 | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 7 days, all (DVPN)
- Auto-renewal
- Yes
- Payment methods
- in-app or web
- Renewal note
- renews monthly/yearly at same price; cancel anytime
Everything VALT publishes
Every fact we collected about VALT, 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
- HashCash, Inc.
- Registered in
- USA
- Address
- 5214F Diamond Heights Blvd #3389, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
- Related brands
- Sentinel (dVPN network)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- VALT DVPN
- Data removal
- VALTIMATE
- Billing terms
- 1m; 12m
- Cheapest price a month
- $3.33
- Monthly plan
- $4.99
- 1-year plan, total
- $39.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- $3.33
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- renews monthly/yearly at same price; cancel anytime
- Family plan
- Yes one plan covers unlimited devices
- Prices seen from other countries
- DVPN $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr
- Data removal $119.99/yr
- VALTIMATE $239.99/yr (USD)
- Identity protection
- Data removal 14.99/mo or 119.99/yr; VALTIMATE 239.99/yr (specialist, unlimited custom removals)
- Other add-ons
- No
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 33% (yearly)
- Discount compared with
- monthly price x 12
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- unlimited
- Prohibited by the terms
- unlawful content/conduct, IP infringement, reverse engineering, account sharing, spam
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- in-app or web
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No payment via Apple, Google or Stripe
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 7 days
- Where the trial is offered
- all (DVPN)
- Trial limits
- then 39.99/yr or 4.99/mo
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- ~1,300 nodes (Sentinel, 2026-09-23)
- Cities
- 192
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- No independent Sentinel node operators
- 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
- Yes ~1 in 10 nodes home connections
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- No
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2WireGuard only✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / RealityWireGuard only, no legacy fallbacks✕ No
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanWireGuard only✕ No
- ShadowsocksWireGuard only✕ No
- Hysteria2WireGuard only✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- V2Ray
- 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
- Yes app blocks traffic when tunnel drops
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- No Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
- 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
- Partial does not keep visited sites, DNS, traffic or IP
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- data removal partner; legal process
- Trackers on the website
- Yes cookies, web beacons
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- shares when required by law/legal process
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-10-02
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-upusage data incl. IP, geolocation✕ Yes
- Connection IPVALT never collects session records; exit node operator sees your IP✓ No
- Session timesNot stated
- Device infoMAC, device IDs, OS, browser✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linuxdownloads: iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome✕ No
- 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
- Chrome extension
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@valtdata.com
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- 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
3.57 of 5, smoothed
From 4 collected reviews (raw average 4.00; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.59 of 5, smoothed
From 19 collected reviews (raw average 2.79; all VPNs 3.90).
The company replied to 4 of 11 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.28 (18 ratings); Google Play 3.2 (178 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
38 Reddit and forum threads mention VALT (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★ · 18 May 2025 · US
Awesome app!
App Store · 5★ · 05 May 2025 · US
Privacy isn’t just protection; it's ownership.
App Store · 1★ · 11 Oct 2024 · US
Downloaded this app and it doesn’t even work and the payment seems sketchy.
Google Play · 1★ · 30 Jun 2026
This app was great; what happened now? All the good servers have become paid and the free servers never connect!
Google Play · 1★ · 01 Jun 2026
it has a stupid buggy app that always crashes, but when you connect to a server its speed is amazing and very fast.
Google Play · 5★ · 20 Feb 2026
excellent
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about VALT
Answers built from what VALT publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is VALT safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 1.0/10 and security 2.5/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.9). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Kill switch
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- HashCash, Inc.
- No-logs policy
- Partial does not keep visited sites, DNS, traffic or IP
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- data removal partner; legal process
- Trackers on the website
- Yes cookies, web beacons
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes (yes (app blocks traffic when tunnel drops))
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
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Is it safe? of similar VPNs
VALT not working? Common causes and what to check
1 things to check, built from what VALT publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Yes support@valtdata.com
If it is blocked where you are
Troubleshooting of similar VPNs
VALT free trial: length, terms and payment details
VALT free trial: 7, all (DVPN).
Trial terms
- Length
- 7
- Card needed
- Not stated
- Limits
- then 39.99/yr or 4.99/mo
- Free plan
- No
Trials elsewhere
Free trials of similar VPNs
Who owns VALT? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
VALT is run by HashCash, Inc., registered in USA; parent company: HashCash, Inc..
Company
- Registered in
- USA
- Address
- 5214F Diamond Heights Blvd #3389, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
- Related brands
- Sentinel (dVPN network)
Jurisdiction
Owners of similar VPNs
In our rankings
VALT appears on 52 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Cheap family VPNs#16 of 17
- Decentralized VPNs#18 of 23
- Family plans with kill switch#19 of 22
- Trial VPNs with a family plan#22 of 24
- WireGuard + family plan#22 of 24
- Residential VPNs#24 of 31
- WireGuard, unlimited devices#24 of 26
- Trial VPNs, unlimited devices#25 of 28
- Cheap unlimited-device VPNs#30 of 31
- Kill switch VPNs with unlimited devices#30 of 31
- Chrome VPN extensions with a trial#32 of 37
- Family plans#34 of 42
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- Cheap Chrome VPN extensions#38 of 39
- No renewal price hike#45 of 60
- Unlimited devices#48 of 62
- WireGuard VPNs with a trial#64 of 69
- Cheap VPNs with a trial#72 of 76
- Monthly plans under €5#77 of 106
- Cheap WireGuard VPNs#77 of 78
- US-based VPNs#79 of 107
- Chrome extensions#82 of 92
- Trial VPNs with a kill switch#82 of 83
- Cheap kill switch VPNs#84 of 84
- Kill switch VPNs with WireGuard support#98 of 104
- 10+ devices#109 of 127
- Windows VPN trials#118 of 140
- Cheap VPNs for Mac#120 of 137
- Cheap VPNs for Windows#120 of 136
- Mac VPN trials#124 of 144
- Cheap VPNs for iPhone#129 of 149
- Android VPN free trials#135 of 160
- Windows VPNs with WireGuard#142 of 147
- Mac VPNs with WireGuard#145 of 149
- VPNs for public Wi-Fi#151 of 159
- Cheap VPNs under €3#152 of 167
- WireGuard VPNs for iPhone#152 of 164
- VPN free trials#153 of 190
- Mac VPNs with a kill switch#157 of 162
- Windows VPNs with a kill switch#157 of 161
- iPhone VPNs with a kill switch#162 of 167
- WireGuard VPNs#177 of 192
- Kill switch#180 of 193
- No IP logs#186 of 191
- VPNs under €5#238 of 280
- VPNs for Windows#287 of 357
- VPNs for Mac#296 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#310 of 411
- VPNs for Android#326 of 451
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
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Higher score for the same money
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VALT compared
Owner and jurisdiction
Closed services VALT replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://valtdata.com
- Pages checked
- ["https://valtdata.com", "https://valtdata.com/pricing", "https://valtdata.com/dvpn", "https://valtdata.com/privacy-policy.html", "https://valtdata.com/terms"]
- Other sources used
- kill_switch, collects_connection_ip, crypto, protocols: https://valtdata.com/tech; linux: https://valtdata.com/downloads; countries_count: https://valtdata.com/dvpn
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_main | 295 | 294 |
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 343 | 342 |