Tencent Cloud VPN Gateway

From $0.20

What the maker publishes

Access model

vpn source

Admin control level

standard source

Alerts

Custom traffic alarms can send email and SMS when a metric exceeds its threshold, and monitoring and alarms are free to use. source

API

The VPN Connections documentation includes an API Documentation section. source

Availability

Tencent states that VPN gateways have 99.95% reliability and use hot standby to switch instances in seconds without reconstructing tunnels. source

Billing

VPN gateway billing offers pay-as-you-go and monthly subscription; pay-as-you-go instance fees are settled hourly and public network fees are billed by traffic. source

Encryption

The VPN tunnel uses Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and IPsec to encrypt transmitted data. source

Founded

1998 source

Free components

Tencent says the VPN tunnel and peer gateway can be used free of charge, while gateway and Internet usage fees apply. source

Free plan

No source

Headquarters

Shenzhen, China source

Integrations

Tencent lists VPC and Direct Connect as services that VPN Connection can integrate with. source

Protocols

VPN tunnels support IPsec, and the product documentation lists both IPsec and SSL VPN workflows. source

Purpose

VPN Connection creates encrypted tunnels to transfer data between customer local IDCs and Tencent Cloud resources. source

Site-to-site networking

Yes source

Support

The VPN Connections documentation offers contact sales and ticket submission for help. source

Supported platforms

web source

Traffic controls

Gateway traffic controls provide monitoring, visualization and speed limiting at IP-gateway granularity. source

Use cases

Tencent describes elastic hybrid cloud and in-cloud disaster recovery as VPN Connection scenarios. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 3 Oct 2026.