Why this site exists
Choosing a VPN is unusually hard for something so widely sold. The products look nearly identical from the outside: every one of them promises privacy, speed and no logs. The differences that actually matter are buried in places most people never look — which country the company is registered in, whether anyone independent has ever inspected its no-logs claim, whether the refund window covers the plan you are about to buy.
We pull those details into one place and put them side by side. That is the whole idea. No provider looks equally good once you compare the things that are inconvenient to compare.
What we cover
7
Providers
Each with a full review covering pricing, jurisdiction, audit status and the things it does badly.
4
Platform guides
Windows, Android, iPhone and iPad, Mac and Linux — because the right pick genuinely differs by device.
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Set of numbers
A price quoted on one page is the same price on every other page. Sounds obvious; frequently is not.
How providers get on the list
A provider is included when there is enough verifiable public information to write a review that would still be useful to someone who disagrees with our conclusion. That means documented pricing and refund terms, a published privacy policy, a traceable corporate owner, and a clear picture of which protocols and platforms are supported.
Every provider then goes through the same testing process before it appears in a ranking, and the results decide where it places. Details that shape a buying decision — jurisdiction, refund terms, protocol support, device limits — are stated plainly in the reviews and in the comparison tables rather than left for you to dig out.
Where two providers on this site share a corporate owner, we say so. A comparison that quietly presents sibling brands as rivals is a worse comparison, however good it looks.
Every provider goes through the same four-part process: multi-location speed testing, privacy policy and jurisdiction analysis, streaming availability checks, and app quality testing across Windows, Android, iOS and macOS. See the full methodology here.
How the site is funded
VPN Truth Lab earns a commission when a reader signs up with a provider through a link on this site. The price you pay is the same either way, and the commission is what keeps the site running.
Commercial links are marked as such in the page source. Every provider we link to has a review here that documents its weaknesses alongside its strengths — missing audits, short refund windows, small server networks, absent features. A comparison site that only ever finds good news is not comparing anything.
Get in touch
Corrections are the messages we most want to receive. If a price has moved, an audit has been published, or something here is simply wrong, tell us — we will fix it and update the review date on the page.
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