Protocol

VPNs that support IPSec

Providers that list IPSec, in most cases underneath IKEv2 rather than beside it.

7 providersU07_protocolsUpdated 14 September 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 2026

Support for a tunnelling protocol, one page per term. U07_protocols replaced U07_modern_protocol in schema 3.4.0: the field used to carry the fastest protocol a provider offered — one value, three terms, only two of them the name of a protocol — and now carries the whole list. These pages are generated from the contract rather than counted from a spreadsheet.

Vendor protocols — Lightway, NordLynx, Hydra, Chameleon — get no page of their own. One vendor with one implementation already has a page: its review. NordLynx is published as wireguard_derived, which is what it is.

IPsec

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OpenVPN 42 WireGuard 39 IKEv2 34 Obfuscated 25 L2TP 12 Proprietary 10 PPTP 9 Vendor open-source 9 Shadowsocks 4 SSTP 4 WireGuard-derived 315 providers in no term — the field is not published

Four of the twelve terms — obfuscated, proprietary, vendor_open, wireguard_derived — are categories rather than protocol names: each says a protocol was disguised, closed or built on another, not which one it is. A record that publishes no protocol list at all appears on none of these pages (fifteen on file).

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StrongVPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesZiff Davis
Coverage42countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.69yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices12at once
11 out of 100
Security
63 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
2
Total VPN
Commercial VPNUnited KingdomPango Group
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$19.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices1at once
11 out of 100
Security
61 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
3
AVG VPN
Commercial VPNCzechiaGen Digital
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$54.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices10at once
5 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
4
Norton VPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesGen Digital
Coverage103countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$39.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices10at once
4 out of 100
Security
80 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
5
Avira VPN
Commercial VPNGermanyGen Digital
Coverage35countries
Paying monthly$10.00monthly
Paying yearly$78.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices1at once
4 out of 100
Security
60 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
6
VPN Unlimited
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices5at once
2 out of 100
Security
60 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
7
Hotspot Shield
Commercial VPNUnited StatesUsability: floor only
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$1.99monthly
Paying yearly$29.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
0 out of 100
Security
73 out of 100
Usability
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VPNs that support IPSec

Ranked by security

The other eleven protocols

StrongVPN

Total VPN

AVG VPN

Norton VPN

Avira VPN

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Hotspot Shield