VPNCity is still in beta so there’s no reason you shouldn’t try this VPN out for yourself while you still can.
Hong Kong-based VPNCity is a small VPN without a whole lot of brand recognition — okay, let’s be realistic, you’ve probably never heard of it — but take a closer look, and the service is much more interesting than you might expect.
The network is a decent size, for instance, with 3,167 servers in 42 locations spread across 33 countries. Not just Europe and North America, either; there are servers in Australia, Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Japan, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Seychelles, and more.
VPNCity has custom apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, along with Chrome and Firefox extensions, and setup guides to get the service working with games consoles, Raspberry Pi and others.
If you’re regularly bumping into the ‘simultaneous connections’ limit of your existing VPN, good news, VPNCity supports connecting up to 12 at once, depending on your plan.
The company is mostly very clear about the features it offers. You don’t have to dig around in the small print to see if VPNCity supports P2P, for instance; yes, it does, there’s a link to tell you more from the main website landing page. And you don’t have to guess whether it supports unblocking this of that service, too, because the apps provide specialist streaming locations for Netflix, iPlayer, Disney+ and more.
Prices are very fair, at $9.99 billed monthly to cover up to 6 devices; $5.99 over 6 months to cover up to 8; $3.99 protects up to 10 devices on the annual plan, and if you pay two years up-front, the price drops to $2.99 a month and you can cover up to 12 devices.
That’s not quite the lowest around — Private Internet Access charges $2.85 a month for the first term of its annual plan, for instance, $3.33 on renewal — but it’s better than most, and looks like good value for what you’re getting.
VPNCity supports plenty of payment methods, too — card, PayPal, AliPay, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — and there’s a 30-day money-back guarantee if you need it.
Most VPNs make big up-front claims about how much they protect your privacy, and VPNCity is no different. ‘We don’t keep any of your online activity’ says the website, proudly: ‘No browser data, credit card information, no IP address. None, nada, niente.’
Experience has taught us that many of these claims are garbage, often contradicted by the VPN’s own Privacy Policy, but VPNCity is different. Its small print is actually worth reading, and includes some very specific details about the service and how it handles logging:
«your activities…are not monitored, recorded, logged, stored or passed to any third party.
