Current status (10 November 2026): Honest VPN Guide is not part of any affiliate program. There are no affiliate links on this site, and no vendor pays us for coverage, rankings or links.
How the site may make money later
Honest VPN Guide is free to read. If a program is approved later, we may earn a commission when you buy a product through some links on this site. That is an affiliate relationship: the vendor (or its affiliate network) would pay LiBrAi when a qualifying purchase or sign-up happens after you use our link.
Affiliate programs we may use, if a program is approved later, include NordVPN and NordPass, Surfshark (and related products such as Incogni), Proton, Malwarebytes and ExpressVPN. Being named here does not mean we have a deal with any of them.
Rates, cookie periods and approval status change. We do not treat a marketing-page percentage as a promise to readers. Commission details are a publisher concern; your price is the price shown at the vendor’s checkout.
What commissions would and would not buy
Would: help pay for hosting, tools and time to recheck our pages.
Would not: buy a higher position, a softer weaknesses section, or silence about renewal pricing.
If we would not recommend a product without an affiliate link, we will not recommend it with one. No vendor can pay for a place in a ranking or in a table.
How we label affiliate links
If a page uses affiliate links, it will say so near the top in a short note and link to this page. Pages without affiliate links may still carry a short note pointing here. For example, our VPN Jurisdiction, Logging and Audit Comparison has no affiliate links but links to this page.
Advertising and sponsored content
There is no display advertising on this site, and we do not publish sponsored articles. If that ever changes, we will update this page first, and sponsored content will be clearly labelled as sponsored.
Mullvad and other non-affiliate coverage
Mullvad states publicly that it does not have affiliates and never pays for reviews. We respect that.
- We may still include Mullvad when it is relevant, for example in our VPN comparison table.
- We will never create a tracking link, partner code or disguised referral for Mullvad.
- A provider can do well in our coverage without paying us anything.
Other tools we do not earn from may appear for education, such as built-in operating-system security features. A mention or a link does not mean we have a commercial relationship.
Sites run by the same operator
LiBrAi may operate more than one website. If an affiliate network later asks which sites we run, we will list them honestly rather than open hidden duplicate accounts.
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