Full VPN Rating
Every VPN we've tested, ranked by overall score. Filter by operating system, price, or use case to narrow down your options.
How to Read This Page Like a Skeptic
It's tempting to treat the top of a VPN rating table as an unquestionable answer, especially in a category this saturated with marketing. We'd rather you understand exactly what's driving the order, because in this specific category, healthy skepticism toward any single ranking — including ours — is the right instinct.
What Actually Moves a Score
Security alone accounts for half of every score, on purpose. A provider can't out-price or out-speed its way to the top of this list without a real, audited no-logs history — those two criteria only carry 30% and 20% respectively. If a fast, cheap provider ranks lower than you expected, it's almost always because its security story doesn't hold up to the same scrutiny as the providers above it.
Cases Where Rank Order Can Mislead You
A provider ranked lower overall can still be the single best option for a specific use case if its server network happens to be unusually strong exactly where you need it — say, dedicated streaming-optimized servers, or a large presence in a specific region. The overall rank averages across every criterion we test, not any one specific use case, which is why our scenario-specific Best VPN lists exist separately from this table.
Understanding Score Bands
Don't read too much into the gap between adjacent ranks when scores are close — a 9.4 versus a 9.1 is real but narrow. The bands that matter more: anything above roughly 9 has a credible, ideally repeated, independent audit and consistently strong measured speeds, while anything below roughly 7 usually has a specific, named weakness in its full review — an unaudited no-logs claim, a jurisdiction concern, or inconsistent real-world speeds.
Why a Provider's Rank Can Shift Between Visits
We don't re-test on a fixed calendar — we re-test when something material changes, including immediately after a confirmed security finding or a new audit. If a provider's position shifts between visits to this page, it reflects a real change on the provider's end, not a cosmetic site update.
Using the Filters Instead of Scrolling Everything
The scenario and price filters exist because "best VPN" genuinely depends on what you're optimizing for. Filter by use case first — streaming, torrenting, gaming, no-logs privacy — then by price if that's a hard constraint, then by free-plan availability if you want to try before paying.
What This Table Deliberately Leaves Out
A rating table can't tell you how a provider's app actually feels to use day to day, or whether its specific server list covers the exact country you need. That detail lives in the full reviews linked from each row — worth reading for your top two or three candidates before deciding between providers within a point of each other.
When Our Ranking Disagrees With Someone Else's
You'll find VPN rankings elsewhere that land in a wildly different order than ours — this category has an unusually large gap between rigorously tested rankings and pure affiliate-commission rankings. Before trusting a ranking that contradicts ours sharply, check whether it discusses audit evidence at all, or whether it's just restating each provider's own marketing claims.
A Quick Way to Sanity-Check Any Rank
If a provider's position here surprises you, the fastest way to settle it isn't to argue with the number — open its full review and see exactly which criterion is driving the score. In this category specifically, an unexpectedly low rank almost always traces back to a missing or lapsed audit rather than a subjective judgment call, which makes it one of the easier categories to verify for yourself.