StrongVPN

Anyone comparing this against its better-known sibling should know they are one business. The privacy policy gives a single New York address for the operating company and for the media group that owns it, and that group also sells a second VPN brand as an entirely separate product, with its own pricing and its own applications. Two storefronts, one owner, one set of corporate policies behind both.

What this brand brings is age. It has been sold continuously for far longer than most of this market has existed, the applications cover the four platforms most people need, and a monthly rate of $11.99 sits where the market sits. For a reader who would rather deal with a large American company than a small offshore one, that is a coherent choice.

The catch is what the pricing page leaves out. The annual rate of $47.69 is described as applying to the first year, and no renewal figure appears beside it anywhere — an undisclosed increase is harder to plan for than a disclosed one. Nothing outside the company has examined the no-logs promise either, and the American jurisdiction sits inside the five-country arrangement. You are buying longevity and corporate scale rather than verification.