How free services pay their bills
Servers cost money. A service that charges nothing has to earn somewhere else, and there are only a few ways: advertising inside the app, selling data about what you do, limiting what you get so you upgrade, or running the project as a hobby that may disappear. None of these is a crime, and some are fine. What matters is that you know which one applies before you type a password through it.
Checks you can run in ten minutes
- Read the privacy policy and look for one sentence on what is stored and for how long. Missing or vague means assume the worst.
- Look at what the app asks for on install. A tunnel app needs the network permission, not your contacts.
- Note the caps. Daily data limits and a single slow server turn a free tool into a daily annoyance.
- Search the service name with the word "complaints" and read two or three recent entries.
- Check whether it works on your mobile network as well as on Wi-Fi.
The real price of free
Count your time. If a free tool drops every hour and you reconnect ten times a day, the cost is attention. Count risk: a slow, ad-heavy client on an old phone is a worse deal than a plain client and a small subscription. And count the opposite too, because a paid service is not automatically safe; it only gives you somebody to hold to account.
A cheap plan changes the sum. On the two-year plan here the monthly figure is the lowest, and the figures are given on the home page and in the bot. Divide the total by the months and compare that single number with what the free option really costs you.
What you get here
There are no tiers inside the plan: unlimited traffic, no device limit on one subscription link, servers in Helsinki, Warsaw, Tokyo, Istanbul and Paris, and no logs kept. The apps are free. Happ, Hiddify, V2Box and v2rayNG are the free clients that read what the bot hands you.
Take the free trial first. The bot issues the link, there is no sign-up, and you can see for yourself whether it suits your phone and your network. Payment later is in cryptocurrency only, because neither cards nor UPI transfers are an option.
Our stake in the choice
If you drop the free route and buy, we gain, and you should weigh that. The checks above can be run on any service, ours included, and the result does not depend on trusting us. A model produced the draft of this page; a person then read it through and corrected it.
Rules on VPN use depend on the country and can change; a free app is no exemption from them.