How We Make Money

We are funded by affiliate commission. Here is what that means, which links it applies to, and what it doesn’t change.

Affiliate commission

When you buy a VPN subscription after following a link on this site, we may be paid a commission by that provider. It costs you nothing extra and does not change the price you pay.

Which links are affiliate links

Any button or link that takes you to a VPN provider’s website may be an affiliate link. These go through our own /go/ redirect so we can count clicks, and are marked rel="sponsored". Links to our own pages and to the primary sources we cite are never affiliate links.

What commission doesn’t affect

• The facts we report. Data limits, prices, ownership and jurisdiction come from each provider’s own website, privacy policy and app-store listings, and we cite them the same way whether or not the provider pays us.
• What we say about weaknesses. Every review lists real drawbacks, including for the services we rank highest.
• Whether we include a free VPN. Many free VPNs pay no commission at all, because there is nothing to buy. We include them anyway.

What the ranking order means

The order on our rankings is an editorial judgement, not a measured score, and we say why each service sits where it does on the ranking page. We may earn commission from services we list, so treat the order as our opinion and compare the sourced facts in each review for yourself.

Relationships with providers we review

Free VPN 2026 does not own, and is not owned by, any VPN provider we review.

Questions

Email contact@freevpn2026.com.