VPN99 review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#261 of 377 in the main ranking
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Data completeness93%
- Checked2026-10-15
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Network and streaming4.5 vs 3.1
- Price and fair terms4.0 vs 3.5
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Platforms and support2.8 vs 4.3
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.3 vs 2.7
- Security and protocols1.1 vs 2.1
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
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.
VPN99segment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.71.3
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 2.11.1
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 3.54.0
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 3.14.5
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
VPN99 pricing
The cheapest way in is €2.15 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, VPN99 renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, One Month plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep VPN99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Month, 1 mo | €5.15 | €5.15 / 1 mo | €61.82 | €123.63 | €185.45 |
| One Year, 12 mo | €25.79 | — | €25.79 | — | — |
Compare VPN99’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Month | 1 mo | $5.99 | $5.99 | €5.15 | $5.99 | 1 mo |
| One Year | 12 mo | $29.99 | $2.50 | €2.15 | — | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 days
- Free trial
- No
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Visa; Mastercard; PayPal; crypto
- Renewal note
- billed every year / billed every month; no other fine print
Everything VPN99 publishes
Every fact we collected about VPN99, 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
- Shopcut LLC
- Registered in
- USA (New Jersey)
- Address
- New Jersey, US
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN; RU
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- One Month; One Year
- Billing terms
- 1m; 12m
- Cheapest price a month
- $2.50
- Monthly plan
- $5.99
- 1-year plan, total
- $29.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- $2.50
- 2-year plan, total
- No
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- billed every year / billed every month; no other fine print
- Family plan
- Not stated
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 58%
- Discount compared with
- vs 12x monthly (71.88)
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 5 (site); vpnMentor also says unlimited (conflict)
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Visa
- Mastercard
- PayPal
- crypto
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Coins accepted
- BTC
- ETH
- USDT
- USDC
- SOL
- LTC
- MATIC
- 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
- 30
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- No
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 60+ (also 50 on site)
- Servers
- 300+
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Yes
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- No
- 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✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✓ Yes
- IKEv2✓ Yes
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolXST; Stealth✓ Yes
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- AES-256
- 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)
- Partial Stealth protocol, did not work in test
- Countries it claims to work in
- China (support: maybe)
- 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
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes does not monitor or store tunnel data
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- 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 IPsite policy admits logging IPs (website)◐ Partial
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✕ No
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- Chromebook✓ Yes
- Smart TVNot stated
- Routers✕ No
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Chrome (proxy, no encryption)
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- works (vpnMentor test)
- BBC iPlayer
- No test
- Disney+
- Yes test
- Prime Video
- Yes test
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Response time (claimed)
- few hours (vpnMentor test)
- Help articles
- Yes support.vpn99.net
- 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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Trustpilot
3.93 of 5, smoothed
From 21 collected reviews (raw average 4.57; all VPNs 3.66).
The company replied to 2 of 2 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.77 of 5, smoothed
From 33 collected reviews (raw average 4.12; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.88 of 5, smoothed
From 121 collected reviews (raw average 3.88; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 1.00 from 1.
The company replied to 27 of 28 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 4.6 (21 reviews); App Store (US) 4.52 (212 ratings); Google Play 3.8 (2.17K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
34 Reddit and forum threads mention VPN99 (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 · 1★ · 02 May 2024 · US
It just doesn’t work
App Store · 1★ · 27 Dec 2023 · US
Total trash
App Store · 1★ · 22 Oct 2023 · US
SCAM
Google Play · 1★ · 10 Oct 2026
awful
Google Play · 5★ · 11 Jul 2026
so good 👍
Google Play · 2★ · 10 Jul 2026
The only issue for this VPN is the security concerns please tell us where our data is going to.
Trustpilot · 5★ · 03 Apr 2026 · US
Quick customer service
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 26 Oct 2025 · IT
Very relible service and fantastic…
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 11 Mar 2025 · US
Very quick response from the support…
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about VPN99
Answers built from what VPN99 publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is VPN99 safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 1.3/10 and security 1.1/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: ✕ No.
In 10 seconds
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- Shopcut LLC
- No-logs policy
- Yes does not monitor or store tunnel data
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Encryption
- AES-256
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
Related rankings
VPN99 not working? Common causes and what to check
3 things to check, built from what VPN99 publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Switch protocol in the app: VPN99 lists WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, Own protocol.
If the network blocks VPNs, turn on obfuscation (Stealth protocol, did not work in test).
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- No
- Yes
If it is blocked where you are
VPN99 refund policy: how to ask for your money back
VPN99 refund window: 30 days.
Refund terms
- Refund window
- 30
- Conditions
- Not stated
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
- Free trial
- No
Try before paying
Who owns VPN99? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
VPN99 is run by Shopcut LLC, registered in USA (New Jersey).
Company
- Registered in
- USA (New Jersey)
- Address
- New Jersey, US
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
VPN99 appears on 91 topic pages. Its place on each:
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- WireGuard VPNs for Chromebook#16 of 16
- Chromebook VPNs paid with crypto#17 of 17
- Chromebook VPNs with 30-day refunds#17 of 17
- VPNs for Prime Video#17 of 33
- Pay with USDT#17 of 22
- Cheap VPNs for Chromebook#19 of 19
- Chrome VPN extensions for Netflix#20 of 24
- No-logs VPNs for Chromebook#22 of 24
- OpenVPN VPNs for Chromebook#22 of 22
- VPNs for Disney+#25 of 35
- VPNs for Chromebook#27 of 29
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- WireGuard VPNs claiming Netflix#29 of 30
- Netflix claims, 50+ countries#31 of 32
- Crypto VPNs for Netflix#33 of 44
- Cheap VPNs for Netflix#34 of 46
- Cheap Chrome VPN extensions#34 of 39
- Netflix claims + money-back guarantee#36 of 50
- Chrome VPN extensions for crypto#43 of 50
- OpenVPN VPNs claiming Netflix#48 of 62
- Chrome VPN extensions with money back#48 of 51
- VPNs for Netflix#53 of 97
- Crypto VPNs in 50+ countries#54 of 58
- Cheap VPNs in 50+ countries#57 of 59
- US-based VPNs#64 of 107
- No-logs VPNs that claim Netflix support#66 of 78
- No-logs Chrome VPN extensions#67 of 79
- Mac VPNs for Netflix#67 of 83
- Windows VPNs for Netflix#67 of 83
- Money-back VPNs, 50+ countries#67 of 75
- iPhone VPNs for Netflix#68 of 85
- Cheap WireGuard VPNs#69 of 78
- Crypto VPNs with money-back#69 of 72
- Cheap crypto VPNs#70 of 83
- WireGuard, 50+ countries#70 of 71
- OpenVPN, 50+ countries#72 of 78
- Cheap OpenVPN services#73 of 90
- WireGuard crypto VPNs#75 of 92
- Chrome extensions#75 of 92
- Cheap VPNs with money-back#76 of 83
- OpenVPN crypto VPNs#77 of 103
- Proprietary protocols#81 of 110
- WireGuard + money-back guarantee#82 of 87
- OpenVPN + money-back guarantee#86 of 100
- VPNs in 50+ countries#97 of 132
- IKEv2#108 of 133
- Cheap VPNs for Windows#108 of 136
- No-logs VPNs with servers in 50+ countries#109 of 116
- Cheap VPNs for Mac#109 of 137
- Cheap no-logs VPNs#110 of 137
- WireGuard + OpenVPN#115 of 125
- Cheap VPNs for iPhone#118 of 149
- Cheap VPNs under €3#119 of 167
- No-logs crypto VPNs#119 of 151
- Pay with PayPal#122 of 211
- Pay with crypto#126 of 181
- Mac VPNs with refunds#129 of 149
- Windows VPNs with crypto#131 of 158
- iPhone VPNs paid with crypto#132 of 154
- Mac VPNs with crypto#132 of 156
- Windows VPNs with WireGuard#133 of 147
- Windows VPNs with refunds#135 of 155
- 30-day money-back guarantee#135 of 174
- Mac VPNs with WireGuard#137 of 149
- Windows VPNs for China#142 of 151
- WireGuard VPNs for iPhone#144 of 164
- No-logs VPNs with WireGuard support#146 of 159
- Windows VPNs with OpenVPN#148 of 190
- Mac VPNs with OpenVPN#155 of 198
- No-logs VPNs with OpenVPN support#158 of 191
- iPhone VPNs for China#158 of 166
- OpenVPN VPNs for iPhone#160 of 207
- OpenVPN VPNs for Android#164 of 219
- WireGuard VPNs#170 of 192
- Android VPNs for China#177 of 186
- OpenVPN#183 of 242
- VPNs under €5#185 of 280
- VPNs for travel to China#197 of 209
- No-logs VPNs for Windows#215 of 267
- No-logs VPNs for Mac#224 of 280
- No-logs VPNs for iPhone#232 of 314
- No-logs VPNs for Android#241 of 328
- VPNs for Windows#252 of 357
- VPNs for Mac#263 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#275 of 411
- VPNs for Android#283 of 451
- No-logs VPNs#292 of 389
- 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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Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/vpn99/
- Pages checked
- https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/vpn99/; https://vpn99.net/; https://vpn99.net/en/prices
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