Private Internet Access vs PrivadoVPN

For a single year of service the total cost is $39.95, which comes out to $3.33 per month. Making Private Internet Access one of the cheapest providers of VPN services on the net.

If the VPN goes out, the internet will be disconnected so users will be protected from browsing without protection.

All users are able to access P2P networks without having to download a 3rd party client. Private Internet Access uses separate VPN gateways for browsing and P2P access, so both are optimized without interfering with each other.

Including IP cloaking, encryption, firewall, complete anonymous browsing & complete uncensored access to the internet.

Private Internet Access is compatible with MacOS X and iOS, without having to use a third party client. It also works on Windows, Android, Linux & more. In total, Private Internet Access is compatible with almost 40 operating systems.

You can use any and all protocols at your disposal, no traffic is restricted.

Private Internet Access allows for up to 5 devices in use simultaneously.

When you sign up, you will instantly get a user id and a password to use in their provided software (Windows and Macintosh) and they have tutorials and FAQs for Android, iPhone, Linux and other devices such as routers.

They are very eager to answer any questions that you may have.

You can pick where you will appear to be from: the US (multiple), Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Romania, Canada, or Hong Kong.

Payments are accepted through Bitcoin, Ripple, PayPal, Google Play (Mobile), OKPay, CashU, Amazon and any major Gift Card.

Payment plans are by the month, half year and by the year.

Currently $6.95/mo, $35.95/half year, $39.95/year.

Truly anonymous payments can be made by gift cards or Bitcoins.

A $25 Starbucks gift card gives you 100 days.
A $32 Best Buy gift card gives you 129 days.
A $50 Walmart gift card gives you 366 days.

According to Private Internet Access in 2013:

We absolutely do not maintain any VPN logs of any kind. We utilize shared IP addresses rather than dynamic or static IPs, so it is not possible to match a user to an external IP.

According to Private Internet Access in 2014:

We absolutely do not log any traffic nor session data of any kind, period. We have worked hard to meticulously fork all daemons that we utilize in order to achieve this functionality.

Over 200 servers in 45 countries around the world.

The paid accounts let you connect up to 10 different devices to the same username. That's twice what most other VPNs have.

Strict zero-log policy so you know they aren't keeping any of your activity data.

Can bypass geoblocks on streaming services so you can get access to all of their content, regardless of region.

All servers allow torrenting and provide great speeds.

Paid users can mask their IP address without slowing down their connection using the included SOCKS5 proxy.

The free account comes with 10 monthly gigs of download data and access to 12 servers in North America, Europe, and Asia.