Logging

VPNs that log your activity

Providers that keep activity — what was reached, not merely that a session existed. It is the answer that makes every other question about the provider secondary.

5 providersC01 = activityUpdated 14 September 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 2026

C01_linkable_retention asks what record exists that could link traffic to a person, and it is answered by a field with a source, not by a marketing page.

A page here is not a verdict. Whether anyone independent checked the answer lives in the audit fields and reaches the reader through the security score, where a documented persistent device identifier can pin the retention channel from below no matter how clean the report is.

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None linkable 26 Session metadata 11 Source IP 9 Connection timestamps 7 Aggregates only 66 providers in no term — the field is not published

All 77 answer this field — none is unknown, which is unusual for the contract. One of its six values, source_ip, is unoccupied: no record on file states that it keeps the address a connection came from. That is an absence of evidence rather than an absence of the practice, and an empty term gets no page.

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Hoxx
Commercial VPNUnited StatesUsability: floor only
Coverage—not published
Price—no published price
Free tierYeslimited free plan
3 out of 100
Security
63 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
2
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
3
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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Not recommended
4
Urban VPN
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage82countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.40yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices8at once
1 out of 100
Security
70 out of 100
Usability
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5
Hola VPN
P2P exitIsrael
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$92.26yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
0 out of 100
Security
49 out of 100
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VPNs that log your activity

Ranked by security

The other five retention levels

Hoxx

Psiphon

VPN Gate

Urban VPN

Hola VPN