Alternatives to Hotspot Shield
Same kind, comparable, ranked by evidence - not by commission.
Mullvad VPN
8.9/10 · Sweden
The most honest VPN on the internet, and in 2026 still the one this industry is measured against: numbered accounts, cash or Monero accepted
IVPN
8/10 · Gibraltar
The anti-affiliate champion candidate holds up: no affiliate program (stated out loud on the homepage), flat honest pricing, quarterly warra
OVPN
7.7/10 · Sweden
The engineer's VPN: every server diskless (RAM-only, iPXE-signed boot images), WireGuard peers wiped from memory after 3 minutes, and a 2020
Private Internet Access
7.7/10 · United States
The best-evidenced no-logs claim in the business - twice tested in US courts (2016, 2018) and twice found to have nothing - plus the cheapes
Cryptostorm
7.1/10 · Iceland
cryptostorm.is is verifiably LIVE (fetched today, HTTP 200) with a PGP-signed warrant canary dated July 1, 2026 and an unbroken Wayback snap
Mozilla VPN
7/10 · USA
The only big-name VPN from a nonprofit-owned company: open-source clients, a 2021 Cure53 audit, WireGuard-only on Mullvad's network and a st