Who we are
VPNFin is a small, independent team of digital privacy enthusiasts based in Southeast Asia. We don’t have a fancy office or a marketing department — just people who have relied on VPNs in daily life for years and got tired of reviews that repeat marketing claims without checking them.
What we actually do
We do the homework. For every VPN we cover, we:
- read the privacy policy and the terms line by line — including the renewal pricing most reviews skip;
- check the audit record: who independently verified the no-logs claim, and how recently;
- cross-reference independent speed and security results from multiple published sources;
- track streaming access reports and re-check claims when platforms change;
- flag what can’t be verified — and say so in the review instead of guessing.
Living in Southeast Asia keeps us honest about one more thing: around here, a VPN is not a theoretical privacy tool. Blocked services, public Wi-Fi, long-distance connections — that daily reality is the perspective we write from.
How a VPN gets into our top five
We cover more services than we rank. The comparison table on our homepage lists five providers; our reviews section covers considerably more. That difference is deliberate, and here is what decides it.
To appear in the ranked table, a provider must meet all four of these:
An independent no-logs audit within the last three years. Not a self-assessment, not a security certification for something adjacent — a named firm examining the logging claim specifically, with a published report. This rules out a substantial part of the market.
Published speed results from a named third party. We don’t run our own tests, so we need someone credible who does. Providers absent from independent testing rounds can’t be ranked on performance we haven’t seen measured.
Renewal pricing stated before checkout. Every provider we rank discloses what you pay after the intro term. Services that reveal it only after purchase don’t qualify, regardless of how good the intro rate looks.
A refund window of at least 30 days. Long enough to test whether the service works for your specific case — your streaming platforms, your devices, your connection.
What does not decide it: how much commission a provider pays us, whether they’ve offered a promotion, or whether they’ve asked to be included. Two of the five in our current table pay us nothing at all, because their affiliate programmes declined us.
What we do with everyone else: we review them honestly and compare them against the ranked five. If a service is well built but hasn’t been audited recently, we say exactly that — and you can decide whether it matters to you. Some readers will conclude it doesn’t.
The list changes. When a provider publishes a new audit, or lets one lapse, or changes its refund terms, its position changes with it. We update the table rather than defending old rankings.
What we don’t do
We don’t take payment for rankings or positive coverage. We don’t publish sponsored posts disguised as reviews. And we don’t invent test numbers — if a figure appears in our content, it comes from a named source or the provider’s own documentation, and we tell you which.
How we make money
We earn affiliate commissions when readers buy a VPN through our links. This never changes the price you pay and never changes our ratings. Full details are on our Affiliate Disclosure page.
Get in touch
Found a mistake? Disagree with a rating? Want us to cover a specific VPN? Email us at sellebatr@gmail.com or use our Contact page — we read everything.