PIA

Yes — PIA runs Australian servers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, so you get fast local connections and an Australian IP, plus apps for every major platform and unlimited simultaneous devices on one account. It's fully functional down under.

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There's no free tier — PIA is paid — but it's among the cheapest quality VPNs you can buy. The 2-year plan, usually with a couple of bonus months, works out at about US$2.19/mo, and it renews at US$4.70/mo after the term. A 30-day money-back guarantee lets you test it risk-free. If you want a genuinely free option instead, Proton VPN's free tier is the one we trust.

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Yes, especially if you're a value hunter or a tinkerer. PIA's apps are fully open-source, so anyone can inspect the code; its no-logs claims have been proven in court more than once; and it allows unlimited simultaneous connections at near-bottom pricing. It's also one of our top picks for torrenting, with solid port-forwarding and speeds. The trade-offs, and the reason it sits at rank six rather than higher, are less polish and less consistent streaming than leaders like NordVPN or ExpressVPN. If you want maximum configurability and value over slick simplicity, it's an excellent choice.

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Yes. PIA's no-logs policy is unusually well-tested: it's been proven in court on more than one occasion, when subpoenas produced no usable user data because none was kept — real-world proof rather than just a promise. That record has since been backed by a Deloitte audit, and the apps are fully open-source, so the code can be independently inspected. The caveat worth knowing is ownership and jurisdiction: PIA is US-based and owned by London-listed Kape Technologies. The US sits inside the Five Eyes alliance, but PIA's answer is that court-tested no-logs means there's nothing to hand over regardless.

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About US$2.19/mo on the 2-year plan, which makes it one of the cheapest quality VPNs available to Australians. It renews at US$4.70/mo once the introductory term ends, and a 30-day money-back guarantee covers you if you want to try it first.

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Denver, in the United States — so PIA operates under US jurisdiction, and it's owned by London-listed Kape Technologies. On paper, a US base inside the Five Eyes alliance sounds like a privacy negative; PIA's counter is that its no-logs policy has twice been proven in court, meaning there's simply nothing to hand over regardless of jurisdiction.

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