Local pricing / Why it matters
A note from Free VPN
A fair price is
a privacy feature.
Privacy shouldn’t depend on the country on your passport or the currency in your pocket. So we stopped asking everyone to pay as if they lived in the same place.
What we believe
Four principles
behind one price change.
A converted price is not a fair price.
Turning dollars into rupees, reais or rand changes the number on the screen. It doesn’t change how much of a month’s budget it eats. Local pricing starts from what money actually buys where you live.
Privacy works only when it’s always on.
Protection you can afford once and then cancel isn’t protection. A price that fits your life is a plan you keep: on campus Wi-Fi, at the airport, at home.
Cheaper must never mean less.
Same Premium tools for the same plan and platform, everywhere. No regional “lite” edition, no stripped features, no second-class users.
Your data is not the discount.
Some services make up for a low price by collecting more. We don’t. No account to create, no email to hand over, no browsing logs to keep. That’s true at every price.
Principle 03, in practice
One Premium.
Priced for where you live.
Open Premium in Jakarta, Lahore or Cairo and you get the same unicorn, the same tools and the same promise. Only the price follows your store region.
- INIndia$210.37$24.99−88%
- VNVietnam$193.41$24.99−87%
- PKPakistan$180.14$24.99−86%
- IDIndonesia$166.33$24.99−84%
- EGEgypt$128.71$24.99−80%
The longer version
One app. Very different wallets.
Free VPN is used all over the world. For years our Premium plans followed the industry habit: set a price in US dollars, convert it, and call it global. On paper that’s consistent. In real life, the same price meant a coffee-sized decision for some people and a serious chunk of the monthly budget for others.
Economists have a name for that gap: purchasing power parity. The IMF describes it as the exchange rate you’d need to buy the same amount of goods and services in each country. Market exchange rates don’t capture what money buys locally. PPP tries to.
A converted price can feel like small change…
…and like a real sacrifice somewhere else.
Illustrative only, not to scale or based on a specific country.
The connectivity world has wrestled with this for a long time. The ITU and the Broadband Commission use an affordability target: entry-level mobile broadband should cost less than 2% of monthly income per person. In 2026 the ITU reported that in the least developed countries, a basic mobile data basket costs a median 6.1%, three times that target. If getting online is already a stretch, a privacy tool priced for someone else’s economy is out of reach.
We would rather more people stay protected than have fewer people pay a higher price.Free VPN on regional pricing
Why this matters more every year
This isn’t only about subscriptions. More and more of daily life runs through a phone: studying, banking, working, calling family, finding out what’s happening. And the internet has become less free for millions of the people living that life.
Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net 2026 found that global internet freedom declined for the 16th consecutive year. Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition recorded 313 internet shutdowns in 52 countries during 2025, the highest number they have recorded. When networks get watched, throttled or cut, people look for tools to protect themselves. Our view is simple: price shouldn’t be the thing that stops them.
What a fair price doesn’t promise
We want to be honest about the edges. A VPN encrypts the connection between your device and our server, and that’s powerful. It doesn’t make you invisible, and it doesn’t override the law where you live. Local rules on VPN use differ, and we’d always ask you to know yours. A lower price doesn’t mean guaranteed access to any particular service either. What it does mean is that more people can choose a privacy tool that fits their life.
So here’s the deal
- Your store region sets your price. The plans you see come from your App Store or Google Play country, not your VPN location.
- The tools stay the same. Ad-free VPN time, Auto Connect, Boost Speed and Super Ad Block. Features vary by platform.
- Free stays free. Watch ads to earn VPN time in our mobile apps. Premium is a choice, not a toll.
- Your privacy is not for sale. No logins. No browsing logs. No exceptions for cheaper plans.
Different budgets.
The same right to privacy.
The context we’re building in
The internet is getting less free.
Protection shouldn’t get pricier.
consecutive years of global decline in internet freedom.
Freedom House, Freedom on the Net 2026internet shutdowns across 52 countries in 2025, the most on record.
Access Now, #KeepItOn 2025 reportof monthly income: median cost of basic mobile data in least developed countries, against a 2% target.
ITU, Facts and Figures 2026Free VPNby Free VPN .org™People first. Privacy always.
Our promise doesn’t
change with the price.
Whatever you pay, wherever you are, you get the same commitment.
Read our privacy promise- No account. No login.Open the app and connect. There’s no Free VPN profile to create.
- No browsing logs.We don’t keep a record of the sites you visit or the apps you use.
- An encrypted connection.A private tunnel between your device and our VPN server, wherever you connect.
Trusted at scale
80 million downloads.
One simple promise.
People have been choosing Free VPN for years, on every kind of phone and in every kind of place. Here’s what that looks like, and what they tell us most.
“Open it, tap once, and it just does its job.”
“It’s the first app I put on every new phone.”
“Reliable enough that I just leave it on.”
Sources
- IMF Finance & Development, “Purchasing Power Parity: Weights Matter.” imf.org
- ITU, Facts and Figures 2026 (Nov 3, 2026); Broadband Commission 2% affordability target. itu.int · broadbandcommission.org
- Freedom House, Freedom on the Net 2026: Seismic Shifts on the Global Internet. freedomhouse.org
- Access Now, Internet shutdowns in 2025 (Mar 31, 2026). accessnow.org
Sources checked November 11, 2026. Regional pricing details are covered on our local pricing page; your store shows the final local price and renewal terms.
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