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Proton VPN
Proton VPN was launched in 2017 by the team behind Proton Mail, the encrypted email service founded by scientists who had met while working at CERN, and the VPN product was built specifically to extend that same privacy-focused mission into internet browsing more broadly. The company is headquartered in Switzerland, a jurisdiction with strong constitutional privacy protections, and Proton has published its full VPN application source code openly, letting independent security researchers directly audit the software's code rather than relying solely on the company's own privacy claims. Proton VPN offers a genuinely functional free tier with no data cap, an unusual approach among VPN providers, most of which either don't offer a free option or impose significant data or speed limitations on free users specifically to encourage paid upgrades. Proton VPN's combination of its origins within the CERN-scientist-founded Proton privacy ecosystem and its unusually generous unlimited free tier has made it one of the most distinctively positioned VPN services in the privacy-focused technology industry.
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ExpressVPN
ExpressVPN was founded in 2009, among the earlier entrants into the modern consumer VPN market, and built a reputation for a particularly extensive global server network spanning dozens of countries relative to many of its competitors at the time. The company registered in the British Virgin Islands, a jurisdiction without mandatory data retention requirements, and built its brand around consistent independent speed test performance, an important differentiator in a product category where connection speed directly affects everyday usability. ExpressVPN was acquired by identity-security company Kape Technologies in 2021 for approximately $936 million, one of the largest acquisitions in the consumer VPN industry, consolidating ExpressVPN under a parent company that also owned competing VPN brands including Private Internet Access and CyberGhost. ExpressVPN's combination of its early-mover position in the modern consumer VPN market and its landmark $936 million acquisition by Kape Technologies has made it one of the most commercially significant VPN brands in the industry.
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