PureVPN

PureVPN doesn't lock features behind different price tiers, insteading offering the same capabilities with different billing cycles. PureVPN costs $10.95 per month. You can also opt to pay $53.70 for a six-month subscription, or $70.80 for a two-year term. Subscription payments can be made via just about every means you could desire: credit card, AliPay, Bitcoin, Cashu, PaymentWall, or PayPal. The service also accepts nearly a dozen other cryptocurrencies. You can even pay with gift cards from popular stores. Unlike other VPNs it actually increased download speed. It has good privacy and a large selection of servers around the globe.

What we like

• Outstanding speed tests
• Numerous, geographically diverse servers
• Excellent interface
• Add-on features like Firewall and dedicated IP
• Allows P2P and BitTorrent

What we don't like

• No quick-start option
• No ad-blocking
• Doesn't work well with Netflix

Speed

PureVPN increased latency by a tiny 6.7 percent. However, it improved download speeds by an impressive 346.5 percent. The competition generally makes download speeds slower, not faster, by about six percent, across the board. PureVPN didn't have a supercharging effect on upload speeds, however; it slowed uploads by 4.9 percent.

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Privacy

PureVPN has the “Internet Freedom” option. It lets you select that you want to watch Netflix or that you are in China as an option. Privacy, it turns out, is considered to be the default experience for a VPN client, letting you search the available servers and select one for connection.

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Servers

PureVPN offers users 794 servers across 141 countries in 180 different locations. The list includes servers in Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America. Note that PureVPN also offers servers in China, Russia, and Turkey. That puts PureVPN among the top contenders, based on servers and locations alone.