How we rate providers

Every provider in the VPNJungle directory gets the same treatment. We research current plans and pricing from the company's own site, record the renewal rate the promo banner does not show, read the privacy policy rather than the landing page, and score the service across five areas on a 0-10 scale.

Speed and reliability (0-10). For VPNs: protocol support (WireGuard and its variants beat legacy OpenVPN for throughput), server density in the regions people actually connect to, and consistency under load. For proxy networks: pool size and freshness, success rate against defended targets, and latency on sticky sessions.

Privacy and trust (0-10). The jurisdiction the operating company answers to, what the privacy policy really retains, whether an independent firm has audited the no-logs claim and how recently, RAM-only infrastructure, ownership and corporate history, and for proxy networks how the IPs are sourced from the people whose connections carry your traffic.

Features and coverage (0-10). Kill switch, split tunneling, obfuscation, multi-hop, port forwarding and dedicated IPs on the VPN side; targeting granularity, rotation control, protocol support and API quality on the proxy side. Country coverage counts here too.

Value for money (0-10). Not the intro price. We weight the renewal price heavily for VPNs, because that is what you pay from year two, and we weight the minimum commitment heavily for proxies, because a $500 floor makes an attractive per-gigabyte rate irrelevant to a small buyer.

Ease of use (0-10). App quality across platforms, how quickly a first-time user gets connected, dashboard and documentation quality, and how much the service demands you already know.

The overall score is our editorial judgment informed by those five, not a mechanical average. A provider that is excellent for one audience and wrong for everyone else will say so in its "best for" line.

Prices. All prices are USD. VPN prices are the advertised promotional monthly rate, which almost always requires prepaying the term shown, and we list the renewal rate next to it. Proxy prices are the entry-tier rate for the stated unit - per gigabyte, per IP per month, or per thousand requests - and every network discounts as volume rises. We re-check pricing on the date shown at the top of each review.

What we do not do. We do not run a lab. Speed scores draw on protocol and infrastructure facts, published independent testing and the weight of consistent user reports, not on our own stopwatch, and we would rather say that plainly than dress up a single afternoon's speed test as science.

Affiliate links. Some outbound links earn us a commission. That never changes a score - scores are set before any affiliate relationship is considered, and many providers we recommend pay us nothing. Full disclosure here.