Free VPN: what actually works

Very few "free" VPNs are honest. Here's the map: who is unlimited, who counts gigabytes, and where the catch is.

The only unlimited one

Proton VPN — a free plan with no traffic cap and no card: ~5 countries, one device, no logs. For daily driving, it's this one.

The gigabyte plans (10 GB/mo)

• Windscribe — 10 GB/mo with a confirmed email, P2P allowed;
• PrivadoVPN and hide.me — the same 10 GB when Windscribe runs out.

Not quite a VPN, but always with you

Cloudflare WARP — encrypts traffic and speeds it up through Cloudflare. It doesn't replace a VPN (you can't pick a country), but it covers public Wi-Fi.

What to avoid

• "Unlimited" VPNs from banner ads live on selling your traffic;
• VPNs asking for a card "for verification" — the charge arrives quietly;
• browser proxies and "turbo modes" don't encrypt anything, they reroute.

Bonus: a privacy stack for $0

VPN + encrypted notes + a password manager + an E2E cloud — the ready kit is in the "Privacy for $0" collection.

Snapshot 05.11.2026 · no affiliate links, official sites only