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70 out of 100
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78 out of 100
Usability
Platform
Providers that ship a browser extension. For some it is the entire product, which is why browser proxy is a class of its own.
Providers shipping a client for a platform, one page per platform. This is the most commercial of the eight taxonomies and the least interesting to the security model: it says what you can install, not what the operator keeps.
A browser extension is not a system client and is counted separately — the difference decides whether traffic outside the browser is covered at all.
Browser extension
Browser extension is worth 1 of the 20 platform points in the usability score (usability.curves.platforms): Android, iOS, macOS and Windows 3 each; Linux and Routers 2 each; Android TV, Apple TV, Browser extension and Fire TV 1 each.
All 34 platform lists here were read off a published page (U01_platforms, origin document). Nothing was run on the platform: the list says what ships, not how it behaved. Sixteen of the 34 also document router support, which is how a household covers the devices that will never run a client.
Not on this platform
The complement over U01_platforms among the 68 ranked records, each with its security score. A record that later lists a browser extension moves from here to the list above.
U01_platforms has a closed vocabulary of exactly these ten terms: a platform outside the list is not published at all, so this row is the whole of what a record can claim to ship a client for.
What that buys a reader is a word that means the same thing on every record — the platform a record names is one of these, spelled this way, or it is not there.
More platforms
On this platform
Each answer is the record’s own and has no platform axis beyond “desktop only” (U08_kill_switch, U09_split_tunneling, U10_simultaneous_devices); the protocol list is the provider’s whole list, not what ships here (U07_protocols). The last column says where the platform list itself came from and the day it was read.
| Provider | Kill switch coverage | Split tunneling available | Simultaneous connections | Protocols offered | Platform list read from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proton VPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 12 Sep 2026 |
| hide.me | On every platform | Available | 10 | WireGuard, IKEv2, SSTP, OpenVPN, A vendor protocol with published source | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Private Internet Access | On every platform | Available | unlimited | WireGuard |
| Published page, read 26 Aug 2026 |
| CyberGhost VPN | On some platforms | Available | 7 | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2 | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| CactusVPN | On every platform | Available | unlimited | OpenVPN, WireGuard, IKEv2, L2TP, PPTP, SSTP, A vendor protocol with published source, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| NordVPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | A WireGuard-derived protocol, OpenVPN, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 27 Aug 2026 |
| Surfshark | On every platform | unknown | unlimited | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, A vendor protocol with no published source | Published page, read 27 Aug 2026 |
| X-VPN | On every platform | Available | 5 | OpenVPN, WireGuard, L2TP, An obfuscated protocol, A vendor protocol with no published source | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| ExpressVPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | A vendor protocol with published source, WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2 | Published page, read 27 Aug 2026 |
| ClearVPN | On every platform | unknown | 6 | IKEv2, OpenVPN, WireGuard, An obfuscated protocol, A vendor protocol with no published source | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| TunnelBear | On every platform | Available | unlimited | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| AdGuard | unknown | Available | 10 | A vendor protocol with published source | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| ZoogVPN | On desktop only | Available | 10 | IKEv2, OpenVPN, L2TP, PPTP, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| Windscribe | On desktop only | Available | unknown | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 12 Sep 2026 |
| Betternet | On every platform | Available | 10 | WireGuard, IKEv2, A vendor protocol with no published source | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Planet VPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | OpenVPN, IKEv2, A vendor protocol with no published source | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Red Shield VPN | On some platforms | Available | 10 | unknown | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Mozilla VPN | unknown | Available | 5 | WireGuard | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| VeePN | On every platform | Available | 10 | OpenVPN, IKEv2, WireGuard, Shadowsocks | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| PrivadoVPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | OpenVPN, IKEv2, WireGuard, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| BTGuard | On every platform | Available | 20 | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, PPTP, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| TorGuard | unknown | Available | 8 | OpenVPN, WireGuard, IKEv2, PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, An obfuscated protocol, Shadowsocks | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| GNUVPN | unknown | unknown | 5 | unknown | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Mysterium VPN | On every platform | Not available | 15 | WireGuard, OpenVPN | Published page, read 12 Sep 2026 |
| FastestVPN | On every platform | Available | 10 | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, L2TP | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Hoxx | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Whoer | On every platform | Available | 5 | unknown | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| Browsec | unknown | unknown | 5 | IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| VPN Unlimited | On some platforms | Available | 5 | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, L2TP, IPsec, An obfuscated protocol | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| Urban VPN | On some platforms | unknown | 8 | OpenVPN, WireGuard | Published page, read 14 Sep 2026 |
| Turbo VPN | unknown | Available | 10 | IKEv2, Shadowsocks | Published page, read 30 Aug 2026 |
| VPN Proxy Master | unknown | unknown | 10 | IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks | Published page, read 30 Aug 2026 |
| PureVPN | unknown | Available | unknown | IKEv2, An obfuscated protocol, OpenVPN, WireGuard | Published page, read 30 Aug 2026 |
| Hola VPN | unknown | Available | 10 | IKEv2, L2TP, PPTP | Published page, read 30 Aug 2026 |
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