Logging

VPNs that log connection times

Providers that keep the times a connection opened and closed, without the endpoints. Less than session metadata, and still enough to place someone on a network at a moment.

7 providersC01 = connection_timestampsUpdated 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.

Connection timestamps

Ranked by security

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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Surfshark
Commercial VPNNetherlandsNord Security
Coverage100countries
Paying monthly$16.45monthly
Paying yearly$79.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devicesunlimitedat once
16 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
2
Windscribe
Commercial VPNCanada
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$9.00monthly
Paying yearly$69.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
11 out of 100
Security
68 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
FastestVPN
Commercial VPNCayman Islands
Coverage49countries
Paying monthly$5.00monthly
Paying yearly—no yearly plan
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
3 out of 100
Security
79 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
6
Goose VPN
Commercial VPNNetherlands
Coverage23countries
Paying monthly$11.59monthly
Paying yearly$69.46yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devicesunlimitedat once
3 out of 100
Security
57 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
7
Avast VPN
Commercial VPNCzechiaGen Digital
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$59.88yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices10at once
1 out of 100
Security
62 out of 100
Usability
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VPNs that log connection times

Ranked by security

The other five retention levels

Surfshark

Windscribe

AVG VPN

Norton VPN

FastestVPN

Goose VPN

Avast VPN