Atlas VPN provides four pricing plans. The first of the four is a free VPN plan that offers a stripped-down service. The plan provides unlimited bandwidth, but you can only connect to three locations: the USA, Japan, and Australia.

The VPN’s premium plans offer the same features, with the longer plans offering greater value for money.

The shortest plan is a 1-month plan that costs $9.99, billed every 30 days. There’s also a 1-year plan that costs $2.49 a month, billed $29.88 every 12 months. The longest plan runs for 3 years, and it costs $1.39 a month, billed $50.04 every 36 months.

Each plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The support team will try to sort any issues that you may have had first, but they state that you are still entitled to a refund as long as you want it.

Atlas VPN is a fairly new VPN service launched in January 2020. The VPN is a trademark of Peakstar Technologies Inc., a company with its headquarters in the United States.

Atlas VPN has been growing and expanding its server network for the short period it has been around, and it now has 500+ servers spread across 17 countries and 20 locations. However, its most popular functionality has to be a free service that the VPN offers with no bandwidth limits. In this Atlas VPN review, we’ll look at the VPN in more detail to help you determine whether it suits your needs.

Atlas VPN offers several features:

Kill Switch

The VPN has a kill switch that terminates all internet connections temporarily whenever the VPN connection is lost/ disrupted. The feature is useful in ensuring that you don’t get exposed. The Atlas VPN kill switch is available for all supported devices.

Safebrowse

Atlas VPN provides a safebrowse feature. This protects users from visiting malicious websites. This feature works using a blacklist of malicious websites, and it also enhances a user’s browsing experience by blocking ads.

Data Hack Detection

The VPN’s mobile apps’ premium version comes with a data hack detection functionality. This feature enables you to check whether your email address has been involved in a data breach. You can also see the details of the data that was exposed. Atlas VPN’s data hack detection uses the haveibeenpwned database.

Streaming

Streaming is one of the biggest selling points for Atlas VPN. The VPN’s entire streaming network is optimized for streaming, and so it offers access to a huge variety of streaming services. Some of the services you can access are Netflix, the BBC iPlayer, Disney+, and HBO Now, among others.

In the case of Netflix, you can access multiple libraries that include United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Netherlands, and Australia. We tested all these countries, and we were glad to see that the VPN bypasses the Netflix VPN police without a hitch.

Atlas VPN’s ability to unblock such a huge number of libraries is quite commendable as most VPNs only provide American Netflix.

Atlas VPN is registered in the US. This is a tricky jurisdiction for a VPN as government agencies often subpoena companies, and some have even been forced to record user data under a gag order. This means that the VPN’s location does not boost privacy. Some companies, such as NordVPN, operate from the US but have chosen to register their companies offshore to increase privacy.

In terms of logging, Atlas VPN states that “We are no-logs VPN: we do not collect your real IP address, and we do not store any information that identifies what you browse, view, or do online via that VPN connection.”

This is good to see as it ensures that the VPN doesn’t have any data that it can present to authorities. However, Atlas VPN collects lots of other data in the name of “app analytics.” First, the VPN gives each device a unique identifier, and they state that they collect device and “app events” data.

The VPN collects device type, model, brand name, OS version, device ID, language, time zone, and coarse location (city scale). They do not clearly state whether “app events” includes connection timestamps, which would be defined as logging.

Regarding security, Atlas VPN uses AES 256-bit encryption. Although the VPN doesn’t provide much detail about the underlying infrastructure, it’s safe to say that their security is industry-standard, and so there’s nothing to worry about your data.

In terms of protocols, Atlas VPN currently uses IPSec/ IKEv2 with no option to switch protocols. This is not sufficient as the industry-standard OpenVPN is not available. However, we expect other protocols will become available as the VPN gains ground.

Atlas VPN provides 24/7 support via email, but there’s no live chat support. We tested the support and received a reply after 35 minutes, which is impressive.

Apart from that, you can also get help through Twitter, Instagram, Discord, and Facebook. There’s also an FAQ section that provides important information.