A list of free VPN servers, with the evidence attached
Every other free-VPN directory publishes a list. The interesting question is whether anything on it still works. Hunt VPN answers that question every five minutes, in public, for every server it lists.
What this is
Hunt VPN collects free OpenVPN configuration files that volunteers publish, opens a real OpenVPN control channel to each server every five minutes, and records whether it answered and how long it took. That measurement — nothing else — produces the score you see next to each server. You can download any config as a .ovpn file, without an account and without an email address.
It is not a VPN client and it is not a VPN service. Nothing here creates a tunnel. The file you download is imported into the official OpenVPN Connect app, or into Tunnelblick, the OpenVPN GUI, or the openvpn command — see the setup guides.
Who runs it
Chienkira - one independent developer, working on it alone. There is no company behind this and no investor asking for growth. Reach the person who wrote it at contact@huntvpn.dev; the contact page lists which address to use for what.
The whole thing — the scraper, the prober, the database and this website — runs on a single small ARM server. That is worth knowing, because it sets the honest limits: probes come from one place in the world, so the latency you see is latency from there, not from your sofa.
What it measures, and what it cannot
We can prove that a server answered a genuine OpenVPN handshake minutes ago, how quickly it answered, and how reliably it has answered over the last week. Every number on this site comes out of that one measurement — the full method is on how it works.
We cannot prove who runs a server, what they log, or whether they are honest. Nobody can, for a free volunteer server, and any site telling you otherwise is guessing. What the operator can actually see covers that in full. If you need anonymity rather than a way around a block, this is the wrong tool and we would rather say so here than sell you something else.
How it pays for itself
Hosting is cheap and currently comes out of the developer's pocket. An advertisement may appear in front of a download to cover it. Two things will not happen: no server is ever ranked higher because someone paid, and there is no paid placement of any kind. The ranking is a formula over measurements, it runs unattended after every probe round, and nobody — including us — moves a server by hand.
Things we deliberately do not do
- No accounts, no sign-up, no email wall. A config file is a config file; asking for your address to hand it over would be theatre.
- No invented numbers. Where a server cannot be measured — some use a control-channel mode our probe cannot speak — it is dropped rather than published with a plausible-looking score.
- No naming of the volunteer sources. Publishing them adds nothing for you and adds load for people who are giving something away for free.
- No affiliate links to commercial VPNs, which is where most "free VPN" sites actually make their money.