PrivadoVPN

PrivadoVPN is a Swiss-based VPN service that has carved out a niche by offering what is arguably the best free VPN tier available, combined with the cheapest paid plans in the market. For UK users who want to try a VPN before committing to a subscription, PrivadoVPN provides an excellent starting point.

The free tier includes 10 GB of data per month, access to servers in 13 locations, and support for both P2P downloads and streaming. Unlike many free VPN services, PrivadoVPN does not display ads, sell user data, or impose bandwidth throttling within the monthly allowance. This makes it a genuine free VPN rather than a data harvesting operation disguised as one.

Based in Switzerland, PrivadoVPN benefits from some of the strongest privacy laws in the world. Switzerland is outside the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances, and its data protection regulations provide meaningful legal protections for VPN users. The company maintains a strict no-logs policy.

For paid subscribers, PrivadoVPN offers access to 330+ servers across 50 countries, up to 10 simultaneous device connections, and speeds reaching approximately 950 Mbps. The service supports WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IKEv2 protocols, and includes a kill switch and SOCKS5 proxy.

The Control Tower feature blocks ads, trackers, and malicious content. At approximately £0.89 per month on the 2-year plan, PrivadoVPN offers the cheapest paid VPN subscription available, though the smaller server network means it may not match the speed consistency of larger providers.