An easy-to-use business VPN from the PureVPN people
PureDome is a capable business VPN from the people behind PureVPN, one of the most experienced consumer VPN providers around.
Signing up gets you all the benefits of PureVPN: easy-to-use Windows, Mac, Android and iOS apps; a vast network of thousands of servers spread across 60+ countries; WireGuard support for maximum speeds, a kill switch to protect you if the VPN drops, and plenty more.
But PureDome adds business-friendly security, remote access and team management tools of its own. You can control who uses the service, and what they can do; Single Sign On support allows your team to access the VPN using their existing credentials; you can enforce your preferred VPN settings on users for maximum security, and even prevent users accessing the VPN unless, say, they’re running your preferred antivirus.
In this review, we’ll take an in-depth look at the VPN, its apps, speed and security, and especially its high-end business features.
But if you’re mostly interested in PureVPN and its consumer features, you’ll find more details on this in our full PureVPN review.Plans and pricing
PureDome is fairly priced for monthly billing at $8.45 per user billed monthly, but this only drops to a relatively high $6.74 on the annual plan.
There’s also a potential catch. PureDome has a minimum subscription of five team members, which means the least you can pay is $42.25 billed monthly, or $33.70 on the annual plan.
You can add a dedicated IP for $84 per month, but this can only be assigned to one of your users.
If you need a unique and static IP for all your users, you’ll need to spend a chunky $600 per month for a dedicated gateway (essentially, your own VPN server.)
Payments are accepted via card or PayPal.
PureDome is more expensive than some of the competition, but there is some positive news. Although PureDome asked for our payment details when we signed up, it doesn’t charge until the end of the billing period. That effectively means there’s a free 30 day trial, and as long as you cancel before that time is up, you won’t be billed.PureDome apps
Business VPN apps are often underpowered, and with a range of usability issues. That’s no surprise: business VPN providers might know how to create site-to-site network connections through every possible type of firewall, but developing quality apps requires very different skills, and it’s often not a priority.
PureDome is a little different, because its apps are essentially based on PureVPN’s range. That means a wide choice of platforms, with downloads for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, even Chrome support. They include all the features you’d expect from a consumer VPN — WireGuard, IKEv2 and OpenVPN protocol support, a kill switch, split tunneling, location favorites and more — and yet they’re also easy to use, even for the least experienced of users.
Our in-depth tests did highlight a DNS issue. When we connected using WireGuard or IKEv2 on Windows, our checks showed no DNS leaks, with PureDome using its own DNS server to resolve queries. But when we connected using OpenVPN, PureDome appeared to use Google DNS, which means information about your browsing is leaking outside of the tunnel. This probably won’t have any practical effect (Google already has far better ways to track people than analysing DNS queries), but it is still a privacy concern.
PureDome’s apps scored elsewhere, though. The Windows app kill switch correctly blocked our internet access, for instance, whenever we forcibly closed its VPN connection.
