You might have noticed VPN ratings in our VPN comparison table. How do we arrive to these exact ratings?
We have two types of ratings: Our rating and 11 different category ratings.
Our rating is the average rating of all category ratings with mostly equal weight. The rating is displayed in from 0.0 to 10 with one digit precision after the comma. This is the overall score of a VPN provider. The more boxes it ticks, the better the score is!
We have 11 different category ratings. We use multiple parameters to come to the rating we have. A calculation is run to arrive to these ratings. We use multiple parameters each with different weights. Here you can see the parameters for each category rating:
Logging rating
- Logging audited
- Claims no logging
- Owned servers
Privacy rating
- Eyes
- Enemy of the internet
- Logging audited
- Claims no logging
- Accepts crypto
- Accepts cash
- RAM servers
- Owned servers
- IP leak protection
- DNS leak protection
- WebRTC leak protection
- Proven user data leak
Payments rating
- Accepts cards
- Accepts crypto
- Accepts cash
Pricing rating
- Price for 1 month
- Price for 1 year
- Free trial
- Money back guarantee
Leak protection rating
- IP leak protection
- DNS leak protection
- WebRTC leak protection
- Proven user data leak
Protocols rating
- OVPN/TCP
- OVPN/UDP
- L2TP/IPsec
- L2TP
- IPsec
- IKEv2
- PP2P
- WireGuard
- Other protocols
Algorithms rating
- Weakest algorithm
- Strongest algorithm
- Weakest handshake algorithm
- Strongest handshake algorithm
Features rating
- IP leak protection
- DNS leak protection
- WebRTC leak protection
- Data leak protection
- Shadowsocks
- TOR integration
- Obfuscated servers
- Dedicaed IP
- Ad blocker
- Quick connect
- Smart DNS
- Split tunneling
Support rating
- 24/7 support
- Chat support
- Email tickets
- Phone support
- FAQ available
- Other types of support
Ethics rating
- Affiliate disclosure
- Respect copyrights
- Oversell VPN capabilities
Transparency rating
- Logging audited
- Missing information about the owner
- Bug bounty
- Full disclosure
- Affiliate disclosure
- Oversell of VPN capabilities
Using this kind of a rating system helps us sort the VPN providers according to their functionality, transparency, privacy protection etc., yet it is perfectly fine to ignore our ratings and find the VPN service for your personal needs by using our filtering function.