Proton VPN vs TunnelBear Comparison

• VPN Plus, 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount
• VPN Plus, 1 year: $47.88 for the first 12 months, then renews at $83.88/yr ($6.99/mo)
• VPN Plus, 2 years: $71.76 for the first 24 months, then renews at $83.88/yr ($6.99/mo)

• Unlimited, 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount
• Unlimited, 1 year: $59.88 billed every 12 months; TunnelBear's own checkout authorization text states future renewal terms are charged at the same $59.88 — a confirmed flat rate, not a discounted intro price. TunnelBear does not offer a standard 30-day money-back guarantee, reviewing refund requests case by case instead
• Unlimited, 3 years: $120.00 billed once every 3 years; a one-time non-recurring charge per TunnelBear's own checkout flow, not an auto-renewing subscription — resubscribing after 3 years would be a new purchase at whatever pricing is current then, not a guaranteed renewal at this rate. Same case-by-case refund policy as the annual term

Fifth consecutive annual no-logs audit. On-site assessment at Proton's Zurich office, May 20-22 2026, findings announced June 16 2026. Reviewed VPN configuration files, server configs, operating procedures, and staff interviews across ten criteria including activity tracking, metadata logging, and user-server association. All five years of reports (2022-2026) are publicly downloadable, no login required.

8th consecutive annual independent security audit, a white-box review (full source code, configuration, and backend access) conducted over 44 working days by 8 senior Cure53 auditors, blog post announcing completion published November 24, 2025. This round found 10 vulnerabilities of medium severity or higher plus 3 low-severity issues, all acknowledged and addressed or mitigated per TunnelBear. The prior (7th) audit, published February 2024, found 7 issues of medium risk or higher (5 medium, 2 high) out of 13 total. Unlike several other frequently-audited providers reviewed on this site, TunnelBear's audits consistently surface real, non-trivial findings each year rather than clean reports — presented here as a distinct trust profile (transparent about real issues, not a spotless record) rather than smoothed over.

Operating entity TunnelBear LLC (Delaware). Data storage and operations remain under Canadian law, per TunnelBear's own privacy policy.

Per TunnelBear's own homepage; exact total server count not published on the pages checked for this review.