{"rid":"egress/riseup-vpn","card":{"rid":"egress/riseup-vpn","eid":"riseup","topic":"egress","slug":"riseup-vpn","provider":"Riseup VPN","url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","domain":"riseup.net","category":"tunnel (hosted): free donation-funded VPN with no account, OpenVPN and obfs4 on 21 shared gateways","tier":"free (donations)","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","self_hosted":0,"confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"anonymous","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"cli","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-04T10:11:45.490Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-11-04","stale_on":"2026-12-05","n_evidence":9,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free to use with no account: 'You just install it and run it—no configuration, no account registration.' The service is donation-funded: 'The cost for us to ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1,"free_unit":"unlimited"},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"riseup-vpn","provider":"Riseup VPN","url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","category":"tunnel (hosted): free donation-funded VPN with no account, OpenVPN and obfs4 on 21 shared gateways","tier":"free (donations)","free_tier":{"stated":"Free to use with no account: 'You just install it and run it—no configuration, no account registration.' The service is donation-funded: 'The cost for us to offer RiseupVPN is approximately $60 USD per person per year', and users are asked to donate at least that. The cheapest yearly price is therefore USD 0; the suggested donation is USD 60.","unit":"unlimited","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","read_on":"2026-11-04","notes":"No byte or time quota is stated on the pages read, and the published service configuration marks each of its 21 gateways as 'limited': false; that flag's meaning is not documented on the pages read, so the unit unlimited is an absence of a stated quota, not a vendor promise."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"notes":"","source_url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn"},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable: a tunnel, not stored bytes","days":null,"source_url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","notes":"The vendor states it does not log the user's IP address; no stored-object retention applies."},"egress":{"terms":"No byte cap or rate is stated on the pages read. All 21 gateways in the published service configuration carry 'limited': false. The help page says RiseupVPN 'bypasses these restrictions and, because you get your own IP, makes p2p applications work much better'.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"free to use; no quota stated","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn"},"interface":["cli"],"interface_detail":"A tunnel with desktop and Android apps (RiseupVPN, built on the Bitmask code) and a published JSON service configuration. Protocols: OpenVPN (AES-256-GCM) on every gateway. UDP: yes, on ports 53, 80 and 1194 in both TCP and UDP. Port forwarding: unverified: no page read states it. SOCKS5: unverified: no page read states a SOCKS5 endpoint. Obfuscation: obfs4 over TCP port 443 on every gateway. BitTorrent: the legacy help page lists p2p as a use the VPN supports; no current page states a rule.","tooling":"The RiseupVPN app, or a plain OpenVPN client using the gateways, ports and cipher in the vendor's published service configuration (21 gateways, each with openvpn and obfs4 transports).","chaining":"A free tunnel exit: traffic leaves from the address of one of 21 gateways, so the upstream sees a shared hosting-network address.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"21 gateways, each a shared exit used by many users; the vendor asks for donations because capacity is funded by users ('approximately $60 USD per person per year')","source":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn"}],"limits_note":"The pages read state no byte quota, device count or rate. The service has no account, so no per-account limit can be enforced by a login.","binding":"none","binding_note":"No quota or rate is published and no account exists to enforce one; the open question is capacity (a donation-funded service with 21 gateways), which the limit vocabulary does not name.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"No account: 'no configuration, no account registration'. The vendor states it does not log the user's IP address. Donations are optional and go through Liberapay (card or Euro bank debit), PayPal or Bitcoin.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A donation-funded service run as 'an experiment to see if we can create a VPN service that is easy enough for everyone to use and that people will donate enough to sustain'; capacity and continuity depend on donations.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Documented for price, sign-up and the BitTorrent line; the protocol, UDP and obfuscation values are measured from the vendor's published service configuration (a probe of the JSON, status 200). The BitTorrent line comes from a legacy help page of unknown date, so it is the weakest value. Nothing was connected through the service.","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0; a suggested donation of USD 60 a year; not a per-TB price","notes":"Cheapest yearly price: USD 0 (donation-funded). The published service configuration lists 21 gateways, each offering OpenVPN on ports 53, 80 and 1194 over TCP and UDP and obfs4 on TCP 443.","verified_at":"2026-11-04T10:11:45.490Z","evidence":[{"url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:c1a049034a83cd97d62a5bd3847c63d1e30000061d8ad67b6afed65194e11144","quote":"no configuration, no account registration","proved":"no account is needed to use RiseupVPN"},{"url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:c1a049034a83cd97d62a5bd3847c63d1e30000061d8ad67b6afed65194e11144","quote":"The RiseupVPN service is entirely funded through donations from users.","proved":"The service is donation-funded."},{"url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:c1a049034a83cd97d62a5bd3847c63d1e30000061d8ad67b6afed65194e11144","quote":"The cost for us to offer RiseupVPN is approximately $60 USD per person per year.","proved":"The vendor's stated cost per user per year is USD 60."},{"url":"https://riseup.net/en/vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:c1a049034a83cd97d62a5bd3847c63d1e30000061d8ad67b6afed65194e11144","quote":"Unlike most other VPN providers, Riseup does not log your IP address.","proved":"No IP logging is stated."},{"url":"https://crabgrass.riseup.net/riseuphelp+en/riseup-vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:eb9f8ee87c43f720ea02b6fb467f6c0f70149b00f9363baaa9aa1998ca69212f","quote":"The RiseupVPN bypasses these restrictions and, because you get your own IP, makes p2p applications work much better.","proved":"The help page states p2p works with the VPN."},{"url":"probe:api.black.riseup.net/eip-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:363fa760a0cc49851de259be0422e5a4b077a3bd637fa53d574f58b254dbd618","quote":"\"ports\": [\"53\", \"80\", \"1194\"], \"protocols\": [\"tcp\", \"udp\"], \"type\": \"openvpn\"","proved":"every gateway offers OpenVPN on ports 53, 80 and 1194 over TCP and UDP"},{"url":"probe:api.black.riseup.net/eip-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:363fa760a0cc49851de259be0422e5a4b077a3bd637fa53d574f58b254dbd618","quote":"\"ports\": [\"443\"], \"protocols\": [\"tcp\"], \"type\": \"obfs4\"","proved":"every gateway offers obfs4 on TCP port 443"},{"url":"probe:api.black.riseup.net/eip-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:363fa760a0cc49851de259be0422e5a4b077a3bd637fa53d574f58b254dbd618","quote":"\"limited\": false","proved":"the gateways are not flagged limited"},{"url":"probe:api.black.riseup.net/eip-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:363fa760a0cc49851de259be0422e5a4b077a3bd637fa53d574f58b254dbd618","quote":"\"cipher\": \"AES-256-GCM\"","proved":"the OpenVPN cipher is AES-256-GCM"}]},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier","kind":"has-free-tier","num":1,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price","num":60,"unit":null,"per":"year","currency":"USD","usd":60,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}