VPN Gates review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Founded2007 (copyright start)
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass1.0 vs 0.5
- Network and streaming1.8 vs 3.1
- Platforms and support2.8 vs 4.3
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.7
- Price and fair terms1.1 vs 3.5
- Security and protocols0.0 vs 2.1
- Auto-renewal on by default
- Stores connection IP addresses
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.
VPN Gatessegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.70.0
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 3.51.1
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 0.51.0
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 3.11.8
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 4.32.8
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
VPN Gates pricing
The cheapest way in is €5.37 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, VPN Gates 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, All-in-one VPN plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep VPN Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-in-one VPN, 1 mo | €6.84 | €6.84 / 1 mo | €82.04 | €164.09 | €246.13 |
| All-in-one VPN, 3 mo | €19.74 | €19.74 / 3 mo | €78.95 | €157.90 | €236.84 |
| All-in-one VPN, 6 mo | €36.94 | €36.94 / 6 mo | €73.87 | €147.75 | €221.62 |
| All-in-one VPN, 12 mo | €68.76 | €68.76 / 12 mo | €68.76 | €137.51 | €206.27 |
| All-in-one VPN, 24 mo | €128.96 | €128.96 / 24 mo | €128.96 | €128.96 | €257.91 |
| All-in-one VPN, 36 mo | €197.76 | €197.76 / 36 mo | €197.76 | €197.76 | €197.76 |
Compare VPN Gates’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-in-one VPN | 1 mo | $7.95 | $7.95 | €6.84 | $7.95 | 1 mo |
| All-in-one VPN | 3 mo | $22.95 | $7.65 | €6.58 | $22.95 | 3 mo |
| All-in-one VPN | 6 mo | $42.95 | $7.16 | €6.16 | $42.95 | 6 mo |
| All-in-one VPN | 12 mo | $79.95 | $6.66 | €5.73 | $79.95 | 12 mo |
| All-in-one VPN | 24 mo | $149.95 | $6.25 | €5.38 | $149.95 | 24 mo |
| All-in-one VPN | 36 mo | $229.95 | $6.39 | €5.50 | $229.95 | 36 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Refund conditions
- no refund for ToS violations or slow speeds / incompatible apps
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Yes card/PayPal
- How to cancel
- email support@vpngates.com
- Payment methods
- credit card; PayPal; Perfect Money; Western Union; bitcoin (mentioned in ToS)
- Renewal note
- All plans auto-renew for same term at completion; auto-renew on for card/PayPal, off for bitcoin; cancel by emailing support
Everything VPN Gates publishes
Every fact we collected about VPN Gates, 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
- Not stated
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Founded
- 2007 (copyright start)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD
- Prices depend on country
- No
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- All-in-one VPN account (PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/OpenVPN)
- Billing terms
- 1m
- 3m
- 6m
- 12m
- 24m
- 36m
- Cheapest price a month
- $6.25
- Monthly plan
- $7.95
- 1-year plan, total
- $79.95
- 1-year plan, a month
- $6.66
- 2-year plan, total
- $149.95
- 2-year plan, a month
- $6.25
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- All plans auto-renew for same term at completion
- auto-renew on for card/PayPal, off for bitcoin
- cancel by emailing support
- Family plan
- No
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- No
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- No
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- No
- Bonus months
- No
- Affiliate programme
- Yes reseller program
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Data limit
- unlimited (claim)
- Prohibited by the terms
- illegal actions
- fraud
- spam
- hacking
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- credit card
- PayPal
- Perfect Money
- Western Union
- bitcoin (mentioned in ToS)
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- No
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes bitcoin mentioned in ToS
- Coins accepted
- BTC
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- No
- Mobile carrier billing
- No
- Local payment methods
- Perfect Money; Western Union
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes card/PayPal
- How to cancel
- email support@vpngates.com
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes
- Account-number login
- No
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
- Refund conditions
- Yes refund for ToS violations or slow speeds / incompatible apps
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Where the trial is offered
- site (trial request page)
- Trial limits
- full-function trial account on request
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 10-11
- Servers
- 60+ / 72+ (inconsistent)
10 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 5
Americas 2
Asia and Oceania 3
- Middle East and North Africa
- none
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- 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
- Yes SOCKS/HTTP proxies, SSH tunnels listed
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✕ No
- OpenVPN✓ Yes
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecYes
- SSTPYes
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✕ Yes
- Other protocols
- SSH tunnel; HTTP/SOCKS proxy
- Encryption
- Strong encryption
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes config guides for Windows/Mac/Linux
- 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
- Yes VoIP/Skype unblocking claimed
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
- Data retention
- logs 1 month then deleted
- Shared with third parties
- No
- Transparency report
- No
- Warrant canary
- No
- Law enforcement requests
- only on court order of competent jurisdiction
- 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.
- Email✕ Yes
- Connection IPlogs 1 month✕ Yes
- Session timeslikely (logs kept 1 month)◐ Partial
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linuxmanual✓ Yes
- iOSmanual✓ Yes
- AndroidNot stated
- 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
- Yes
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Yes
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes support@/sales@vpngates.com
- Phone
- No
- Telegram
- No
- No
- Help articles
- Yes FAQ, config guides
- Server status page
- Not stated
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- 99.998% (claim)
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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Google Play
3.60 of 5, smoothed
From 275 collected reviews (raw average 3.55; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.58 from 26.
The company replied to 14 of 94 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Google Play 3.7 (4.5K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
27 Reddit and forum threads mention VPN Gates (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.
Google Play · 1★ · 11 Oct 2026
bad vpn no connection
Google Play · 1★ · 10 Oct 2026
وصل نمیشه
Google Play · 5★ · 08 Oct 2026
finally found an app for one name of fb
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about VPN Gates
Answers built from what VPN Gates publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is VPN Gates safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 0.0/10 and security 0.0/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Stores connection IP
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- Not stated
- Legal entity
- Not stated
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- logs 1 month then deleted
- Shared with third parties
- No
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Encryption
- Strong encryption
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
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VPN Gates not working? Common causes and what to check
3 things to check, built from what VPN Gates publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Switch protocol in the app: VPN Gates lists OpenVPN, L2TP/IPsec, SSTP.
Try a manual configuration (config guides for Windows/Mac/Linux).
Contact support: live chat, email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- Yes
- Telegram
- No
- Yes support@/sales@vpngates.com
If it is blocked where you are
VPN Gates refund policy: how to ask for your money back
VPN Gates does not publish a refund window in what we read. Conditions: no refund for ToS violations or slow speeds / incompatible apps
Refund terms
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
Try before paying
How to cancel VPN Gates and turn off auto-renewal
How VPN Gates says you cancel: email support@vpngates.com. Auto-renewal by default: yes (card/PayPal).
Cancellation and renewal
- Reminder before renewal
- Not stated
- Renewal note
- All plans auto-renew for same term at completion; auto-renew on for card/PayPal, off for bitcoin; cancel by emailing support
- Bought in App Store or Google Play
- cancel in the store’s subscription settings
Without auto-renewal or price hikes
VPN Gates coupons and discounts: official prices and promo terms
VPN Gates publishes no promo code on its own site in what we read, so we list none. We never invent codes or copy them from coupon sites; below are the official prices.
Discounts on the official site
- Promo codes
- Not stated
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Discount shown
- No
- Bonus months
- No
- Student discount
- No
- Checked
- 2026-10-15
In our rankings
VPN Gates appears on 50 topic pages. Its place on each:
- SSTP#20 of 22
- VPNs with SOCKS5 proxy#32 of 38
- VPNs for BBC iPlayer#49 of 50
- VPNs for calls in the UAE#58 of 62
- No renewal price hike#60 of 60
- L2TP/IPsec#65 of 67
- VPN servers in Hong Kong#80 of 83
- VPN servers in Switzerland#89 of 91
- OpenVPN crypto VPNs#102 of 103
- Manual config files#113 of 118
- Linux VPNs with crypto#118 of 119
- VPN servers in Australia#121 of 127
Show all 50
- Linux VPNs with OpenVPN#124 of 125
- VPN servers in France#129 of 137
- VPN servers in Singapore#129 of 138
- VPN servers in the Netherlands#132 of 139
- VPN servers in Canada#135 of 142
- VPN servers in Germany#141 of 152
- Windows VPNs for Bahrain#142 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Kuwait#142 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Oman#142 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Qatar#142 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Saudi Arabia#142 of 142
- Windows VPNs for the UAE#144 of 144
- VPN servers in the UK#144 of 156
- iPhone VPNs paid with crypto#151 of 154
- Mac VPNs with crypto#154 of 156
- Windows VPNs with crypto#156 of 158
- iPhone VPNs for the UAE#158 of 158
- VPN servers in the USA#165 of 178
- Pay with crypto#180 of 181
- Windows VPNs with OpenVPN#186 of 190
- Mac VPNs with OpenVPN#194 of 198
- VPNs for travel to Bahrain#198 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Kuwait#198 of 200
- VPNs for Linux#198 of 203
- VPNs for travel to Oman#198 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Qatar#198 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Saudi Arabia#198 of 200
- OpenVPN VPNs for iPhone#200 of 207
- VPNs for travel to the UAE#201 of 204
- Pay with PayPal#203 of 211
- OpenVPN#228 of 242
- VPNs for Windows#335 of 357
- VPNs for Mac#347 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#371 of 411
- 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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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://vpngates.com
- Pages checked
- https://vpngates.com; https://vpngates.com/order.php; https://vpngates.com/terms_policy.php
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_main | 373 | 372 |
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 501 | 500 |