Proton VPN
VPNSwiss VPN with a genuinely unlimited free plan, audited annually by Securitum since 2022.
Price for the VPN Plus plan on a 24-month term ($83.76 for the first period); renewal afterward rises to $83.88/year. The free plan costs nothing.
Proton VPN is the virtual private network run by Proton AG, the Swiss company founded in 2014 by former CERN researchers that also operates Proton Mail. It suits both people who simply want more privacy online and those looking for a genuinely usable free tier: the free plan has no published data or speed cap (each server delivers at least 1 Gbps), though it limits you to one device and to a small pool of countries that Proton itself describes differently depending on which official page you check: the commercial site mentions 5 randomly assigned countries, while its support documentation names 10: the Netherlands, Japan, Romania, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Its no-logs policy has been audited every year without interruption by Securitum from 2022 to 2026 — five consecutive reports, published openly with no non-disclosure agreement required — and Proton says the policy has held up through more than 400 legal proceedings in which it could not hand over logs that simply don't exist. The jurisdiction is Swiss: the company states that Swiss law does not require it to log user activity, and that Proton AG's majority shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation, based in Geneva, as a safeguard against acquisition. Paid plans allow up to 10 simultaneous devices, more than 20,000 servers in over 140 countries, and WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2 and Stealth protocols; accepted payment methods include card, PayPal, Apple/Google Pay, bank transfer, cash and Bitcoin (the latter only after opening a free account). The VPN Plus plan starts at $3.49 a month on a 24-month term ($83.76 for that first period), renewing afterward at a higher rate, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Features
- Servers
- 20.000
- Countries
- 140
- Simultaneous devices
- 10
- No-logs audit
- Securitum, consecutive annual audits from 2022 to 2026 (five reports), published openly and without a non-disclosure agreement.
- Jurisdiction
- Switzerland: according to the company, Swiss law does not require it to log user activity. Proton AG is majority-owned by the non-profit Proton Foundation (Geneva), which protects it from a potential acquisition.
- Protocols
- Kill switch
- P2P allowed
- Pays with crypto
- Money-back window
- 30 days
IP ranges it operates
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