SigaVPN is a provider that does many things right. It uses OpenVPN, 128-bit encryption, and collects no logs, offering free servers with good speeds. Their paid servers are downright cheap, and the whole boodle is torrent-friendly. On the other hand, it’s US-based, somewhat technical, and lacks transparency. All things considered, it’s an excellent choice if you’re on a budget and don’t need to leak state, Illuminati, or corporate secrets.

SigaVPN is a small, niche provider making some strong claims – no logs, anonymous, mostly free, P2P-friendly, and fast. SigaVPN is torrent-friendly and works seamlessly with BitTorrent. Considering it’s a free service, and the one you can set up on your router, you can use as many devices as you need simultaneously.

Pricing and Plans

The four free VPN servers are located in the Netherlands, Latvia, Sweden, and Romania. There are also two free DNS servers in the US and Netherlands.

As of this writing, SigaVPN offers three premium servers – one in Chicago, another in Nevada, and one in Canada. Notably, the premium servers are donation-based. You can donate $1 via PayPal, or credit/debit cards, and enjoy the amplified service. As you would expect, the donations are non-refundable, but you can set your contribution to be a recurring payment to support the service.

Considering it’s a mostly free VPN with dirt-cheap paid servers, SigaVPN certainly looks attractive for anyone on a budget. They don’t accept Bitcoin or cash, but the good news is you don’t need to register with them.

Features

Instead, SigaVPN generates a unique OVPN configuration file each time you download one from their website. All you need to do is add the file to your OpenVPN client. No accounts, usernames, passwords are ever involved. Excellent.

On a side note, you do need to sort out the OpenVPN client and make sure you have TAP adapter installed. But you only need to do it once, while adding the config files is easy. From there, connecting and disconnecting is straightforward, if a bit awkward usability-wise.

Other than that, three instructional videos on the site show you how to install SigaVPN on Windows, Android, and iOS. You can also run it on most OpenVPN-compatible platforms – MacOS, Linux, routers, OpenBSD, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and QNX, but no instructions are available for them.



This might give the provider an air of secrecy, but if you check their Reddit activity, you will find the provider – and user community – to be quite lively and responsive.



What did make me cringe a little is how the short copy is geared toward experienced users. The provider assumes you know your VPN vocabulary. For a free service, it’s a fair deal if you ask me.

Since we’re dealing with the OpenVPN client, there’s no kill switch, firewall, selection of protocols, or other nifty bells and whistles you’d find in proprietary software.



On the other hand, if you’re tech-savvy, you will appreciate the ability to read the config file, view logs and troubleshoot things on your own. Even my basic skills were enough to realize my installation lacked a TAP adapter to work – all I did was check the log file.