VPN service providers, priced from their own pages

Printed VPN prices, verified against each provider's page

Ordered by printed entry price per month. Nine of the eleven priced entries are intro prices that require a prepaid term of one to three years; the term and the renewal sit beside each one wherever the provider prints them, in the period the provider itself used.

The questions that choose between providers

• Best VPN Every list of the best VPN is really a list of somebody's commission rates, so this one starts somewhere duller and more useful: what each provider prints on its own page, what term that price requires, and what it renews at when the term ends.
• Cheapest VPN The cheapest VPN is a question with two answers, and providers publish both on the same page while advertising only one.
• Best VPN UK A British buyer reading a VPN price page is usually reading a dollar figure with a footnote about tax, and the footnote matters more than it looks.
• VPN Australia Australian VPN buying has one local wrinkle and one universal one.
• Free VPN Canada There are two kinds of free VPN and only one of them is worth a Canadian buyer's time.
• VPN prices UK This is the plain price list.
• Buy VPN Buying a VPN takes two minutes and commits you to two or three years on most of the plans advertised.
• Cheap VPN The cheap end of this market is genuinely cheap and it is cheap for one reason: you are paying for two or three years at once.
• Best VPN for China China is the hardest case in consumer VPN use and the one most heavily written about by people with an affiliate link.
• What is a firewall A firewall decides which connections are allowed in or out of a device or a network.
• Best free VPN for torrenting This page will not give you a list, and the reason is that the free tiers which exist are structurally poor at this particular job.
• Best VPN for expats An expat VPN is a long subscription rather than a short one, which changes which number matters.
• Proxy site free A proxy site free of charge is still being paid for by somebody, and on this shelf the funding model is almost never printed anywhere on the page offering it.
• UK proxy Wanting a British address is one of the two commonest reasons anyone looks for a proxy, and it is usually a British person who has moved or travelled and found that a service they pay for has stopped working.
• Online web proxy An online web proxy has to do something more complicated than it appears: it fetches a page, then rewrites every link, image, stylesheet and script reference inside it so they point back through the proxy rather than at the original site.
• Free online proxy The useful question about a free online proxy is not whether it works but who is paying for it to work.

By use case

• VPN for smart TV 4 providers with evidenced plans and verified prices
• VPN router 5 providers with evidenced plans and verified prices
• Privacy and no-logs VPN 5 providers with evidenced plans and verified prices