It’s so difficult with so many options and all these bullshit “discounts”, coupled with the fact that different VPNs charge different prices based on what country you’re connecting from…
What is the cheapest functional VPN you’ve come across? Bonus points if it supports IPv6.
i’d say Mullvad is the better choice, Surfshark if you want better speeds (from my personal experience, also depending on location)
Have a look at https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
Another vote for Mullvad, here. It’s arguably one of the best VPNs out there and at 5 bucks a month, you really can’t go wrong. If you want cheaper than that, you have bigger problems than a VPN.
Imho, ‘cheapest’ and ‘useful’ are rarely a great combo for a VPN.
I mho, Mullvad is the best available, at 5€/month.
Close second, I would place Proton VPN.Most of the others are just, well, I don’t care much about their existence.
Popular VPNs like Mullvad are banned in some authoritorian countries
That’s a good sign
Proton has a free package with unlimited bandwidth. It doesn’t offer as many countries or advanced features but it works just fine.
I think Proton has a free tier. It would be the most legit free one. Otherwise the best VPNs would be Proton, Mullvad, and IVPN with their no log policies, anonymous account creation and payment methods, audit history, and legal track records
AirVPN has a pretty good reputation AKAIK, and their 2-year plans are cheaper than Mullvad and Proton.
Mullvad. Supports IPv6, €5/month no matter how long you pay for or from what country.
Tailscale.
Agreed. I have a VPS exit node for 4$/month, took an hour to set up, never once come within a mile of hitting my bandwidth cap on it.
The clients run on everything.
Most VPN software is free. OpenVPN is FOSS and a popular product.
What are you trying to achieve?
PIA is $40/yr and if you’re just dodging hollywood lawyers, it is perfect for that. I can easily saturate my 1Gbps connection. It’s a well known service so some companies block their IPs and you’ll get captchas but I think that’s unavoidable.
If you have state actors interested in your activities, keep shopping.
Note that PIA has extremely limited options if you want to be connectable on private trackers
Their port forwarding works for me, but you’re right. It takes some knowledge to make it work.
The real issue is that they only allow port forwarding on certain endpoints (and when I was still using them, none of the endpoints that supported port forwarding were in the US which is a headache)
I think they just jumped about $10 a year, I was just renewed for $50 a few weeks ago.
Maybe it’s a cyber Monday deal, they’re advertising 3.33/mo
Son of a… Yeah probably new users or something. I’m ok with losing $10 this year though.
I just bought adguard vpn for 5 year. Cost me 35$. Includes adguard private dns and adguard family license.
Imo, its worth it for me. Good speed but no wireguard support.
