Service class

Providers classed as a censorship tool

Tools built to get you onto a blocked internet, not to hide who you are. Judge them first by whether they work where you are — the usability score — and read the security score as a description, not a verdict.

4 providersUsability leadsUpdated 14 September 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 2026

The class comes from service_class in the contract, and it decides which number to read first, not how high either number is. A censorship tool with a poor security score and a privacy-first VPN with a small network are both correct answers — to different questions.

Every provider carries exactly one class. It is the one field on the page that changes how the page should be read, which is why it sits on the row rather than in a filter.

Censorship tool

Ranked by security

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Commercial VPN 59 Decentralized 2 P2P exit 2 Browser proxy 1

The vocabulary carries nine values, five of them occupied, and an empty term gets no page rather than an empty one. Thinness is the rule here rather than the exception: a single record stands behind one of the occupied classes, which is the same problem the single-provider jurisdictions have.

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RiseupVPN
Censorship toolUnited States
Coverage4countries
Price—no published price
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
25 out of 100
Security
65 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
2
Lantern
Censorship toolUnited StatesUsability: floor only
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$48.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices3at once
9 out of 100
Security
64 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
3
Psiphon
Censorship toolCanada
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$71.99yearly total
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
2 out of 100
Security
82 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
4
VPN Gate
Censorship toolJapanSoftEther Project
Coverage14countries
Price—no published price
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
Devicesunlimitedat once
1 out of 100
Security
74 out of 100
Usability
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Providers classed as a censorship tool

Ranked by security

The other four service classes

RiseupVPN

Lantern

Psiphon

VPN Gate