Coverage96countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
15 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
Servers in country
The law in Belarus puts a VPN provider with servers in the country under obligations to the state — keeping records about its users, registering, or giving the authorities access. On record here: operator logging obligations.
Some of the providers listed here say they removed their physical servers and serve the country from hardware elsewhere; each row carries the provider’s own answer.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
An exit here is under a retention mandate. Operator logging obligations. From the contract's country table — the same field that marks a country on a record's own list.
Using a VPN is not itself named as an offence in Belarus, but anonymisers have been on the blocking list since 2015, and every operator here must identify its users and log their sessions.
Presidential Decree No. 60 of February 2010 obliges internet providers to identify their users' devices and to register and store data about them and about the services provided. The implementing rules, in force since 2016, spell out what is kept — session times, the subscriber's identity, internal and external IP and MAC addresses, the addresses of resources visited — for at least a year.
That is identification plus a record of where the line went, which is precisely the record the retention axis of this register prices.
Since February 2015 a ruling of the Operational and Analytical Centre and the communications ministry has required the state inspectorate to block not only banned sites but anonymisers and proxies, Tor named among them. Restrictions are often selective and temporary, tightened around elections.
By September 2024 the information minister counted over 14,000 web resources blocked, some 5,000 of them as “extremist”, among them independent media and human rights organisations.
Yes, and keeping or subscribing can be enough. The list of “extremist materials” holds about 10,000 entries, and sharing, liking or keeping them is punished under article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences with fines or short detention. Since October 2021 online channels can be designated “extremist formations”, and the police have said subscribing to one is a crime carrying up to seven years.
The account, the subscription and the phone's history are the exposure, not the network.
An exit in Belarus is an exit on a line whose operator must know the subscriber and keep the session record. Eight of the 77 records publish an exit here.
The register marks the mandate on a record's own country list, and the order of the rows is the security score — reach is a usability fact, not a recommendation.
Belarus
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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What moved
Every row is the record’s own history[], filtered to U02_server_countries and P04_mandate_response; the whole log holds every field.
Each of the eight providers with an exit here names this country under a mandate in its own record (C09_mandate_countries).
Coverage96countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
Security
Usability
Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage106countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.85yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage63countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.88yearly total
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$10.99monthly
Paying yearly$39.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage82countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.40yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices8at once
Security
Usability
Coverage80countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly—no yearly plan
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage36countries
Paying monthly$11.90monthly
Paying yearly$71.40yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
29 Aug 20261 changes
ExpressVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response
not on the record changed to withdrew_physical
