{"rid":"egress/starvpn","card":{"rid":"egress/starvpn","eid":"starvpn","topic":"egress","slug":"starvpn","provider":"StarVPN (Star Internet Services)","url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","domain":"starvpn.com","category":"vpn tunnel (hosted subscription)","tier":"Datacenter VPN, $8 per month; Free VPN Anonymous","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","self_hosted":0,"confidence":"documented","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"anonymous","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-04T10:11:45.779Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-11-04","stale_on":"2026-12-05","n_evidence":19,"usd_month":8,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free VPN Anonymous: '100GB/month data usage', Android and Windows apps, tier 1 countries (US, CA, GB, DE, AU), 'No registration or personal information requi...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1,"free_unit":"GB"},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"starvpn","provider":"StarVPN (Star Internet Services)","url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","category":"vpn tunnel (hosted subscription)","tier":"Datacenter VPN, $8 per month; Free VPN Anonymous","free_tier":{"stated":"Free VPN Anonymous: '100GB/month data usage', Android and Windows apps, tier 1 countries (US, CA, GB, DE, AU), 'No registration or personal information required.' A second free tier, Free VPN+, needs 'Registration and email confirmation required'. The vendor page also says 'Free trials are available upon review' for the paid plans.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://www.starvpn.com/free-vpn","read_on":"2026-11-04","notes":"The free anonymous tier is paid for with a network-sharing program: the free VPN terms say the user consents to the vendor using a portion of the user's internet connection, with the line 'There is only a 10% chance that your network will be used at any given time'. Whether the 100GB per month is a hard cut-off or a fair-use figure is not stated."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: an exit address, not an object","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","notes":"No object is stored; the constraints that matter are the IP-update counts and the device count in limits."},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable: a live tunnel and a rented exit address, not stored bytes","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","notes":"The vendor states a strict no-log policy; no retention window for stored bytes applies. How long a static address stays assigned after a plan ends is unverified: behind a sign-up."},"egress":{"terms":"Paid VPN plans list 'Unmetered data usage' (Datacenter VPN $8 per month and Business Residential $20 per month); Premium Residential $45 per month lists '10GB daily use (rotating/sticky)'; Enterprise Proxies are $1 per GB from 100GB monthly. The free anonymous tier is 100GB per month.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"100GB per month on Free VPN Anonymous (Android and Windows apps); 2GB per day on Free VPN+ per the same page","price_per_tb":"Enterprise Proxies: $1 per GB by the vendor's own per-GB price; the VPN plans are flat-rate and unmetered","source_url":"https://www.starvpn.com/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"Vendor apps (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS), OpenVPN and WireGuard configuration files, and SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy endpoints per the plan cards; the vendor page also advertises an API and dashboard for choosing the ISP, ASN, country and region. No API reference was read, so the API shape is unverified. No interface term names a VPN tunnel. The endpoint hostnames, ports and credential format are shown only in the member dashboard: unverified: behind a sign-up.","tooling":"The vendor's Windows, macOS, Android and iOS apps; an OpenVPN or WireGuard client (AmneziaWG for obfuscation); or any SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy client pointed at the account's endpoint.","chaining":"A tunnel or SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy exit with an anonymous free tier and a flat-rate paid tier; the vendor describes the exit as a static or rotating residential address, which is unverified.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"Datacenter VPN: '500 IP updates per month'; Business Residential: '20 Static IP updates per month'; Premium Residential: '1000 manual IP updates (sticky)'; all plans '10 Device connections'","source":"https://www.starvpn.com/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"Free VPN Anonymous: '100GB/month data usage'; Free VPN+: '2GB/day data usage'; paid VPN plans: 'Unmetered data usage'","source":"https://www.starvpn.com/free-vpn"}],"limits_note":"Facts that no limit kind names. (1) Yearly price: no page read states one, although the terms page has a clause for 'Annual subscription plans'; the plan cards show monthly prices only, so the cheapest yearly price is unverified: no yearly price on any page read. (2) Residential claim: the vendor says it provides 'a genuine Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP'; no page read publishes an ASN, a prefix, a sample address or a lookup, so the claim is unverified: it is a vendor claim that needs an exit address from an account. (3) Pool source: the free VPN terms describe a network-sharing program, so part of the rotating pool is connections of free-app users. (4) Port forwarding and the BitTorrent rule: unverified: stated on no page read.","binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"The paid VPN plans state no byte quota ('Unmetered data usage'), so the stated constraint that binds first is the monthly IP-update count and the 10-device cap; no throughput or request rate was measured.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"The free anonymous tier needs nothing: 'No registration or personal information required.' The free VPN+ tier and the paid plans need an account: the free page says 'Registration and email confirmation required', and the purchase issues 'a username and login to the member dashboard'. The terms say registration information 'may include your name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address'; which fields the order form marks required is unverified: behind a sign-up.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The vendor's own terms say free-app users' connections feed part of the rotating pool (a 10% chance that a free user's connection is used at a given time), so exit availability follows the free-user population. unverified: no ASN, prefix or sample exit address was readable, so the registry class of an exit is unmeasured.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Documented from the vendor's home page, free-VPN page and terms pages as served. The residential claim is a vendor claim that no page lets anyone check; nothing about it is measured. Measured would need an exit address from a paid account, its registry class, and a month of byte counts; the yearly price needs the order page.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Datacenter VPN","proved":"The cheapest listed paid VPN plan is 'Datacenter VPN' at $8 per month (the card reads '15 lines min', '$ 8', '/month'); the capture lists no yearly price for any plan."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Unmetered data usage","proved":"The $8 per month Datacenter VPN card lists 'Unmetered data usage', so the paid VPN plan carries no byte allowance."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Connect to our cloud access network over SOCKS, HTTP, OpenVPN, Wireguard or Amnezia protocols.","proved":"Protocols named on the vendor page: SOCKS, HTTP, OpenVPN, Wireguard and Amnezia."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"SOCKS5 & HTTP Proxy","proved":"Each paid plan card lists 'SOCKS5 & HTTP Proxy' as an endpoint type alongside the tunnel."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"AmneziaWG obfuscation","proved":"Each VPN plan card lists 'AmneziaWG obfuscation' as the obfuscation option."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"WebRTC & UDP","proved":"The features list names 'WebRTC & UDP' (the line under it reads 'Keep your connection safe and secure from 3rd party API detectors and online gaming'); this is a feature heading, not a statement of which tunnel protocol carries UDP."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"A Residential VPN provides you with a genuine Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP over StarVPN's military grade encryption network.","proved":"The residential claim as the vendor states it: a genuine ISP address delivered over its tunnel. No ASN, prefix, sample address or lookup is published on the page, so the claim is a vendor claim that nothing on the page lets a reader check."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Upon completion of your purchase, you will receive a username and login to the member dashboard.","proved":"Sign-up gate for the paid plans: the purchase issues a username and login to a member dashboard; the page names no card, phone or identity-document field."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/terms-of-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:459b70231c0ebc60ed930fb1cb367185e0d9ff2f4b82ab601ea5aefe15bfc807","quote":"Registration information may include your name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address.","proved":"Registration information may include name, company name, address, telephone number and email address; the terms say 'may', so which fields are required for the VPN plans is not stated."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/terms-of-service","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:459b70231c0ebc60ed930fb1cb367185e0d9ff2f4b82ab601ea5aefe15bfc807","quote":"11.2. Annual subscription plans: Account holders on annual plans may cancel their account at any time.","proved":"The terms page names annual subscription plans, but no page read states an annual price."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/free-vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:96211988c9f4fea65c4ad989ef08e1b7aaa8dfb61f91a44caa3ba38f4c84c80d","quote":"100GB/month data usage","proved":"The free anonymous tier is 100GB per month on the Android and Windows apps."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/free-vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:96211988c9f4fea65c4ad989ef08e1b7aaa8dfb61f91a44caa3ba38f4c84c80d","quote":"No registration or personal information required.","proved":"The free anonymous tier needs no registration or personal information."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/free-vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:96211988c9f4fea65c4ad989ef08e1b7aaa8dfb61f91a44caa3ba38f4c84c80d","quote":"Registration and email confirmation required","proved":"The free VPN+ tier needs registration and email confirmation."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/terms-of-service-free-vpn","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:ae5e8b389da8d950ebb5466eccabcf0dd12ac03dfdc109f8dbb7c5a7a997c58b","quote":"By using our free VPN software, you consent to participate in our network sharing program in exchange for a premium free VPN subscription.","proved":"The free VPN software enrols its user in a network-sharing program: the vendor uses a portion of the user's connection, and some of the routed data is used for its Smart Streamer service. This is a technical fact about where part of the exit pool comes from."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"$ 8 /month","proved":"The Datacenter VPN plan is USD 8 per month."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"500 IP updates per month","proved":"The Datacenter VPN plan allows 500 IP updates a month."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"10 Device connections","proved":"The plans list 10 device connections."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Starting at 100GB monthly","proved":"Enterprise Proxies start at 100GB monthly at USD 1 per GB."},{"url":"https://www.starvpn.com/","date":"2026-11-04","capture":"sha256:8770f10beac23dbaced9236f3cf5cf9241e856d1f7ad6fc41a4da8865a99d90b","quote":"Free trials are available upon review","proved":"Free trials of the paid plans are offered on review."}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-11-04T10:11:45.779Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 8 per month, Datacenter VPN, 'Unmetered data usage' (cheapest paid plan); yearly price unverified: no page read states one; a subscription price, not a per-TB price","notes":"Two products sit under one brand: a consumer VPN with an anonymous free tier, and a residential proxy business (Enterprise Proxies at $1 per GB, Business Residential at $20 per month, Premium Residential at $45 per month). The tunnel features read on the vendor page: protocols OpenVPN, WireGuard and Amnezia (AmneziaWG obfuscation); SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy endpoints; UDP named in a feature list ('WebRTC & UDP'); 10 devices. Port forwarding: unverified: no StarVPN page read states port forwarding. BitTorrent rule: unverified: no StarVPN page read states a BitTorrent or P2P rule."},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier","kind":"has-free-tier","num":1,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":100,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price","num":8,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":8,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}