Our Story
It’s pretty simple — we started vpnMentor back in 2014 as a way to help people protect their online privacy.
As governments and companies around the world increasingly track and limit our online movements, it’s a no-brainer why many people want to maintain ownership of their online presence.
We Are
A team of 264 cybersecurity researchers, writers, and editors, all dedicated to helping you take back your online freedom.
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Over 20 countries across the globe
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Our Mission
It’s important to us that we not only provide expert reviews, but ones that are very much based on an average user’s experience. We perform ongoing tests to ensure we’re providing the most detailed and up-to-date VPN reviews and guides — and translate them into 29 languages.
As part of our mission to promote internet freedom to people around the world, we’ve also created free tools to help verify your online security. Overall, we want to be your trusted source when it comes to finding the best VPNs, so you can browse the web protected, and on your own terms.
The Team
Ben Lawson
Lead Editor
Favorite VPN: CyberGhost VPN
Anneke van Aswegen
Managing Editor
Favorite VPN: ExpressVPN
Ryan Jones
Managing Editor
Favorite VPN: ExpressVPN
Kristina Joshevska
Managing Editor
Favorite VPN: ExpressVPN
Denys Horbenko
Lead Tech Support
Favorite VPN: ExpressVPN
Our Values
Everything we do at vpnMentor is centered around providing value through honesty, transparency, and dedication. The way we test and review our VPNs is no exception, as we base all of our findings on real testing. Our main goal is to write in a way that’s not only honest, but easy to understand and relate to.
We pay full price for all the VPNs we test and use them the same way any consumer would, so we can provide valuable reviews that are true and accurate to a real user’s experience. Our readers always come first, so we want to provide you with information that is objective. We don’t accept payments to write positive reviews or ignore obvious flaws.
We make money through affiliate commissions to pay the bills. If you click a link and purchase a VPN through that link, we may receive a commission from the sale — at no extra cost to you. This does not affect how we review products — we present the results of our tests transparently and do not accept payments to tweak these results. Through Kape Technologies plc, we are commonly owned with some of the products that we review: ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, ZenMate, and Private Internet Access. That said, we recommend VPNs that we ourselves would (and do) use on a regular basis.
Although we cannot rank every VPN in existence, our team of researchers is constantly testing top VPNs for speed, security, and reliability to shortlist the best all-round VPNs. This list takes into account the level of satisfaction reported by each reader following a purchase, as well as our commercial relationships with service providers. Our writers rely on these rankings when creating listicle pages, but they have the freedom (and responsibility) to make changes where appropriate. Following research into specific use cases, they come up with unique recommendations for different user needs.
Ultimately, our top priority is to help you achieve the level of privacy, security, and freedom you want online.
Review Methodology
Below are all the criteria we use to test, research, analyze, and track the performance of every VPN we review. As a leading authority on VPNs, we aim to build and maintain trust between consumers and the industry. Our expert team has published thousands of real user reviews that are backed by diligent testing and research.
The Research Lab
The vpnMentor Research Lab works with data privacy agencies and computer emergency response teams (CERTs) to identify cyber threats and help protect businesses’ and organizations’ user data. We established our pro bono cybersecurity analysis team in 2019 with world-renowned analysts Noah Rotem and Ran Locar leading the charge. Since then, we’ve discovered and reported on serious security threats around the world. With this work, we’ve secured the data of over 100 million people already. To find out more about the work our research lab does, please visit our press page.
95+
Cybersecurity Reports Published
70+
Company Breaches Discovered
BILLIONS
of Leaks Found