Alternatives to Proton VPN
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 (IVPN Limited, registered in Gibraltar; founder/operated since 2009)
The anti-affiliate champion candidate holds up: no affiliate program (stated out loud on the homepage), flat honest pricing, quarterly warra
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
OVPN
7.1/10 · Sweden (Swedish courts; GDPR/EU legal framework)
One of the strongest no-logs receipts in the industry - a Swedish court could not prove logs exist, the servers are diskless RAM-only, and m
VyprVPN
6.3/10 · United States (Texas) - operated by Certida LLC since 2023; previously Golden Frog GmbH, Switzerland
A genuinely interesting infrastructure story wrapped in a jurisdiction problem: Golden Frog built one of the few fully self-owned server net
AirVPN
6.2/10 · Italy (EU; VAT ID IT03297800546, REA PG 279011; ToS subject to Italian courts; servers in EU countries only, refuses extra-EU jurisdiction conflicts)
Community-run Italian operator with the best power-user transparency stack in the business: fully open-source Eddie client (GPL-3.0), 258 ba