Start using a VPN
Protect your data from prying eyes and unblock the internet.
- Connect your device to a secure VPN server
- Encrypt the connection between your device and the VPN server
- Block your ISP from seeing your online activity
Proton VPN has servers all over the world, letting you bypass censorship and “spoof” your geographic location.
Why use a VPN?
All mass surveillance systems in the world rely on ISPs logging their users’ browsing histories and making these logs available to government agencies. A VPN prevents your ISP from seeing your information, so it prevents untargeted mass surveillance by your government.
Hide your activity
A VPN prevents your internet service provider from seeing your online activity
Protect your data
A VPN prevents public WiFi hosts from selling your browsing habits to advertisers
Unblock the internet
A VPN lets you bypass censorship and browse with a foreign IP address
Connect to private VPN servers in three easy steps
- Step 1
Sign up for Proton VPN for free
- Step 2
Download the Proton VPN app on your device
- Step 3
Connect to a server in the country of your choice to unblock steaming sites, social media, and other websites
Why use Proton VPN?
Privacy-first VPN protection
Using Proton VPN lets you protect your privacy with multiple layers of security. We use only VPN protocols with no known vulnerabilities at their highest encryption settings to protect your privacy.
Free no-logs VPN
Get unlimited browsing with Proton VPN’s Free plan. We’re the only free VPN that keeps your online activity private without logs, ads, or malware. Our Free VPN plan allows everyone to unblock the internet and start browsing more freely.
High-speed connections with VPN Accelerator
Proton VPN offers unparalleled speed performance when browsing on your mobile device thanks to our use of a combination of 10 Gbps servers, advanced VPN protocols like WireGuard, and VPN Accelerator technology that can improve your browsing speeds over long-distance connections by over 400%.
Bypass censorship and access blocked content
Use Proton VPN to connect a VPN server in another country to bypass local internet blocks and censorship. With over 8,600 servers in over 110 countries, our global network of servers ensures you can access blocked content no matter where you are.
How Proton VPN ensures privacy and transparency
No logs
Unlike other VPN services, we keep no logs that can compromise your privacy
Based in Switzerland
We are based in Switzerland, which has some of the strongest data privacy laws in the world
Secure VPN protocols
We use only the most secure VPN protocols, with strong encryption and forward secrecy
Smart Protocol
Our Smart Protocol feature allows you to connect to Proton VPN even when some protocols or standard ports are blocked
Secure Core
We offer a specially hardened Secure Core VPN service for those who need it
DNS leak protection
All DNS lookups are handled exclusively by Proton and no data is ever routed outside the VPN tunnel
Audited and open source
Our apps are fully audited and open source, so anyone can check them
Alternative routing
Our alternative routing feature helps you access our service even when connections to our servers are blocked