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You can start using Proton VPN for free if one simultaneous connection is enough and you do not need to choose a specific country yourself. The free plan has unlimited data and no ads, so this use case may not need a subscription at all.

VPN Plus makes sense for choosing server locations, up to ten simultaneous connections or P2P support. If you need the VPN on a phone and laptop at the same time, the free plan's limit already matters. Free access lets you explore the app, but does not let you test every paid-server feature.

Consider Proton Unlimited if you also intend to use Proton's paid email, cloud storage and password manager features. VPN Plus is enough for the VPN itself. Before a long subscription, compare the initial charge with renewal: an introductory discount does not mean future periods cost the same.

Current Performance

Paid plan speed and rankings
PaidDownloadUpload
Speed821 Mbps848 Mbps
Rank#5of 18#5of 18
Free plan speed and rankings
FreeDownloadUpload
Speed441 Mbps239 Mbps
Rank#4of 9#4of 9

30-Day Speed History

October 3, 2026 – November 1, 2026

Speed history; see the data table below for values.
View daily results
Speed history in Mbps
Date (UTC)Paid download speedPaid upload speedFree download speedFree upload speed
November 1, 2026821848441239
October 31, 2026838832565278
October 30, 2026829870507214
October 29, 2026838820446263
October 28, 2026837846436278
October 27, 2026835819444238
October 26, 2026839868325157
October 25, 2026832823446282
October 24, 2026818859503238
October 23, 2026815874491222
October 22, 2026843863498276
October 21, 2026842835579215
October 20, 2026815837512237
October 19, 2026832849431166
October 18, 2026826855485227
October 17, 2026834835468285
October 16, 2026832857522263
October 15, 2026846816464215
October 14, 2026813862439272
October 13, 2026813869523261
October 12, 2026847835491222
October 11, 2026823835480221
October 10, 2026830836445155
October 9, 2026814829440142
October 8, 2026825861475191
October 7, 2026695814444166
October 6, 2026688866445214
October 5, 2026701869512166
October 4, 2026719851510366
October 3, 2026725879438316

Testing methodology

What the history shows: The paid-plan download result increased by 13.3%, from 725 to 821 Mbps. Paid-plan daily download was fairly consistent, with typical variation of 5.9% around the average and a range of 688–847 Mbps. The free-plan download result remained broadly stable, moving from 438 to 441 Mbps. Free-plan daily download was fairly consistent, with typical variation of 10.0% around the average and a range of 325–579 Mbps.

User reviews

Google Play

4.7 / 5

About 1,220,000 ratings

Checked September 26, 2026

App Store

4.6 / 5

About 111,000 ratings

Checked September 26, 2026

Pricing & renewal

Compare the full initial charge with the renewal charge. Monthly equivalents spread the charge across the access period; they do not mean you pay monthly. Prices checked on September 11, 2026.

Free options

The free plan offers unlimited data without ads or a payment card. It allows one simultaneous device and automatically selects servers in 10 countries; registration is required. In my tests, speeds on the free plan dropped sharply after transferring several gigabytes over a single VPN connection. Disconnecting and reconnecting restored the speed.

Plans

1 month

VPN Plus

$9.99

$9.99 per month

At renewal

1 month / $9.99

$9.99 per month

Same monthly price

1 month

Proton Unlimited

$12.99

$12.99 per month

At renewal

1 month / $12.99

$12.99 per month

Same monthly price

12 months

VPN Plus

$53.88

$4.49 per month

At renewal

12 months / $83.88

$6.99 per month

+55.7% vs. initial monthly equivalent

12 months

Proton Unlimited

$119.88

$9.99 per month

At renewal

12 months / $119.88

$9.99 per month

Same monthly price

24 months

VPN Plus

$83.76

$3.49 per month

At renewal

12 months / $83.88

$6.99 per month

+100.3% vs. initial monthly equivalent

24 months

Proton Unlimited

$191.76

$7.99 per month

At renewal

12 months / $119.88

$9.99 per month

+25.0% vs. initial monthly equivalent

Payment methods

  • Credit card
  • Debit card
  • PayPal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Cash
  • Bank transfer
  • UnionPay

Availability may vary by plan, country and purchase channel.

Apps, protocols & servers

Apps & devices

Computers & mobile devices

Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, iPadOS, Chromebook

TV devices
Paid

Android TV, Fire TV, Apple TV

Free

Android TV, Fire TV

Browser extensions

Chrome, Firefox

Manual setup

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Routers, NAS

Setup instructions; a native app is not implied.

Network

Plan
VPN Plus, Proton Unlimited
Servers
20,000+
Countries
149
Locations
No data
Plan
Free
Servers
No data
Countries
10
Locations
No data
VPN Plus, Proton Unlimited: View country list (149)
  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo - Kinshasa
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong SAR China
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macao SAR China
  • Malaysia
  • Malta
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palestinian Territories
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Türkiye
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe
Free: View country list (10)
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Singapore
  • Switzerland
  • United States

Connection details

Simultaneous connections

Paid

10

Free

1

WireGuard

Supported

OpenVPN

Supported (Manual setup)

IKEv2/IPsec

Supported

Provider-specific technologies

Stealth (based on WireGuard)

Features

Auto-connect

Supported

Kill Switch

Supported

Split tunneling

Supported

VPN traffic obfuscation

Supported (Stealth)

Multi-hop

Supported (Secure Core)

Tor over VPN

Supported

P2P / torrenting

Supported (Selected servers)

Ad blocking

Supported (NetShield)

Tracker blocking

Supported (NetShield)

Malicious website blocking

Supported (NetShield)

Port forwarding

Supported

Dedicated IP

Not supported

Shared static IP

Not supported

Automatic IP rotation

Not supported

Streaming

Based on providers’ published information. “Not supported” means the service was not listed in the reviewed materials; playback has not been tested.

Supported services

  • Netflix
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Disney+
  • HBO Max
  • Paramount+
  • Hulu
  • Apple TV+
  • Peacock
  • Crunchyroll
  • YouTube TV
  • BBC iPlayer
  • DAZN
  • ESPN+
  • F1 TV
  • fuboTV
  • Kayo Sports
  • JioHotstar
  • ZEE5
  • SonyLIV
  • Canal+
  • ITVX
  • Channel 4
  • NOW TV
  • France.tv
  • TF1+
  • RTL+
  • Joyn
  • ARD
  • ZDF
  • RaiPlay
  • Mediaset Infinity
  • Movistar Plus+
  • RTVE Play
  • Wavve
  • M6+
  • Videoland
  • NPO Start
  • Ziggo Go
  • RTÉ Player
  • RTBF Auvio

Not supported

  • iQIYI
  • WeTV
  • Viki
  • beIN Sports
  • Vidio
  • Viaplay
  • U-next
  • TVING
  • Coupang Play
  • FPT Play
  • VieON
  • VTV Go
  • Vision+
  • RCTI+
  • Exxen
  • puhutv

Managing your subscription

Automatic renewal

Subscriptions purchased through the VPN website, App Store, and Google Play

Renews automatically.

How to turn off renewal

Subscriptions purchased through the VPN website

In your VPN account

  1. Open Subscription in your Proton account.
  2. Complete the cancellation confirmations.
  3. Submit the requested cancellation reason.

Deleting a saved payment method does not cancel your subscription.

Subscriptions purchased through App Store and Google Play

If you purchased through the App Store or Google Play, open the subscription settings in that store, select the VPN and cancel the subscription.

Access after cancellation

Subscriptions purchased through the VPN website, App Store, and Google Play

Available until the paid period ends.

Removing a card from your VPN account

You can remove the card in your VPN account.

  1. Open your Proton account settings.
  2. Delete the saved payment method.

Refund conditions

What can be refunded and under what conditions

Purchases on the VPN website

The provider’s refund guarantee applies subject to conditions.

Within 30 days

Starting from your initial purchase

Important limitations

Refunds outside the guarantee are considered at Proton’s discretion.

Refund amount & fees

Full refund under these conditions.

Conditions

Cancel your subscription and request the refund within the 30-day window.

Only one refund request is allowed per user.

How to request a refund

  1. Contact Proton support to request a refund.

App Store & Google Play purchases

If you paid through the App Store or Google Play, you can request a refund through that store. Requests are assessed under the store’s rules; approval is not guaranteed.

Additional conditions from the VPN provider

Subscriptions purchased through Google Play

The store’s refund policy applies subject to conditions.

How to request a refund

  1. Contact Proton support to request a refund.

What is not covered by refunds

Purchases on the VPN website

Renewal payments are not covered by the provider’s guarantee.

Cash and bank-transfer payments are excluded.

Accounts terminated for violating the terms of service are excluded.

Ownership & jurisdiction

Who runs the VPN?

Proton AG (registered in Switzerland) is the company named as providing the VPN service. We could not confirm whether this company handles purchases in every country and through every store.

Proton Foundation is a shareholder in Proton AG. Registered in Switzerland.

Which laws apply?

The VPN operator is based in Switzerland. This does not establish that Swiss law is the only law that applies to every customer.

Audits & findings

Each audit covers particular systems and a particular point in time. A provider announcement is distinct from a publicly available audit report.

Published materials cover both no-logs claims and security testing. The scope and remaining issues differ between reports.

No-logs review

Securitum · May 2026

What was checked: Production VPN systems and the handling of user activity, DNS queries and connection metadata.

Findings: The auditors found no evidence of retained logs identifying a user or their internet activity in the examined systems.

Limitations: The review sampled free and paid production servers with Proton engineers operating the systems under auditor direction. It did not inspect every server or cover business VPN servers.

Read the audit report

Application security

Ruben Santamarta · 2025

What was checked: Source-code review of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux and browser-extension clients; final report published in November 2025.

Findings: Two low-risk issues were found: a Windows permission-prompt bypass and potential VPN-token exposure in the browser extension.

Fixes: The Windows issue was fixed. The extension issue was accepted as a low risk, with mitigation planned; the report does not confirm that later mitigation was completed.

Limitations: These findings describe the tested versions at that time, not the current state of every app or server.

Read the audit report

Censorship resistance

Relevant mainly where VPN services are blocked

If you are in the US, a European country, or elsewhere and VPN services are not blocked on your network, these results need not rule this VPN out of your purchase decision. A failed test under blocking in Russia does not, by itself, mean the VPN is poor quality or will not work where you live. Consider its speed, features and price for your needs.

In our tests in Russia, we could not establish a working VPN connection that allowed data transfer under VPN blocking.

A working connection today may be blocked tomorrow

Blocking changes over time and can differ between networks. A successful test shows that a connection worked in the tested conditions; it does not guarantee that it will work elsewhere or keep working.

Detecting VPN traffic

Filtering equipment can identify patterns in a VPN connection, including how a protocol starts a session. It can then prevent the connection or interrupt data transfer. Traffic obfuscation can make these patterns harder to recognise, but it does not prevent every kind of blocking.

Blocking server IP addresses

A censor can also block known VPN server addresses or entire IP ranges. If all traffic to an address is blocked on your network, disguising the VPN protocol alone will not make that server reachable.

What about your own VPN server?

A privately used server may be less exposed than a public VPN server, and traffic obfuscation may help it avoid detection. But its IP address is still visible to your internet provider and can be blocked. Running your own server gives you more control, not guaranteed access, and requires setup and maintenance.

Sources & check dates

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  2. Cancel a Proton VPN subscription Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  3. Manage payment methods Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  4. Proton Terms of Service Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  5. Proton Foundation Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  6. Foundation governance announcement Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  7. Swiss-based VPN service Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  8. Protocol availability by application Published by Proton. Checked on September 11, 2026.
  9. Proton VPN downloads Published by Proton. Checked on September 27, 2026.
  10. Rendered Plus server directory Published by Proton VPN. Checked on September 13, 2026.
  11. Free server countries Published by Proton VPN. Checked on September 13, 2026.
  12. Access and comparison review: free Published by Proton VPN. Checked on September 26, 2026.
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