Amnezia VPN began as an open-source, Self-hosted project. Anyone can download our client, deploy a VPN on their own server, and guarantee their privacy and security.
We’re giving out birthday gifts — visit our site all through October and win prizes!
Over six years we’ve grown considerably, and the past year tested us on every front. We’re taking a look back at the year and sharing our plans for the next 365 days.
A Quick Look at Amnezia VPN’s Fifth Year in Numbers
15 million downloads on Google Play, the App Store, GitHub, and through the site
20,000 stars on GitHub — we’re in the world’s top 2,000 open-source projects
2x monthly online users
4x traffic to amnezia.org
1 in 1,300 Iranians use Amnezia VPN
We Stay True to Our Principles
For six years now, we’ve defended users’ right to privacy and helped preserve freedom on the internet, wherever you are.
To do this, we build VPN services that adapt to the changing context of internet censorship, and we refine our technology.
All of this so that you always have access to your favorite sites without restrictions and stay private online
This Year’s Achievements — by Service
Despite the difficult conditions we spent the past 12 months in (more on them below), we keep growing.
Free
This year, the free version of our service became available to users in Latin America and the United Kingdom. In parallel, we made AmneziaWG 3.1 the default protocol in Amnezia Free.
We want Amnezia Free to be a global service. By our sixth birthday, it’s available in every part of the world except Antarctica and Australia:
- Europe — the 27 EU countries, all the Balkan countries except Croatia and Slovenia, plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
- Asia — Russia, Turkey, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
- The Americas — Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
- Africa — all 54 countries on the continent: from Morocco to Egypt, from Tunisia to South Africa.
Premium
In August, we officially launched the “Greenland” location for bypassing whitelists. As of publication, Amnezia Premium has more than 50 locations available, 30 of which appeared this year.
Self-hosted
We expanded support for XRay VLESS configs, adding advanced settings such as XHTTP, mKCP, and others. Users also gained the ability to set up their own proxies based on MTProxy and Telemt.
Business
Last November, we launched Amnezia Business — and explained the service’s benefits. And in September, we introduced the Amnezia Business Mini plan for small distributed teams.
Hosting
We launched our own VPS hosting at full strength — a perfect fit for Amnezia Self-hosted.
Miscellaneous
- We updated the AmneziaWG protocol three times — first from version 1.5 to 2.0, and then to 3.1.
- We added subscription renewal directly in the app, including on iOS.
- We introduced a “2 Years” plan for the most farsighted.
- We released more than 20 versions of the main client — we went from 4.8.11 up to 5.0.3.0. Most of them updated our app in response to the targeted blocking over the summer.
- We launched this very blog — thank you for reading ❤️
Amnezia VPN is a global service, and we take part in international initiatives. In July, we launched a joint promotion with Civil Rights Defenders: we offer Amnezia Premium to everyone who fights internet censorship — activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and cybersecurity specialists.
In September, we joined the Defend VPNs Day of Action, with a call to stop VPN bans and restrictions around the world.
The main achievement of the past year, though, is how we withstood a prolonged, targeted attack on our infrastructure. We couldn’t have done it without you, without our community. Thank you for supporting us and each other.
The Context We Spent Our Fifth Year In
Internet censorship in Russia is intensifying, and in 2026 we see a trend toward both its expansion and a buildup of capacity for targeted campaigns. The same applies to the rest of the world.
- As soon as we marked Amnezia VPN’s fifth anniversary, Roskomnadzor restricted access to WhatsApp and Telegram. With the latter, though, a full block came only in February.
- “Whitelists” model started seeping into other regions outside of Russia and Iran.
- Privacy erosion accelerated with the introduction of digital IDs in Brazil and other countries.
We fended off a massive attack on our infrastructure
- The App Store went through several waves of VPN app purges — the platform’s moderators justify their actions by authorities’ requests.
- External factors tied to sanctions were added to the pressure from within. For instance, the certificate authority GlobalSign revoked TLS certificates from a number of Russian services, causing their sites to return an error.
In Russia, censors are digging deeper at the infrastructure level, seeking to control hosting providers, subnets, and CDN providers, and in some cases even big business. But the purges in app stores and the targeted blocking show that Roskomnadzor hasn’t forgotten about individual services.
Over the world, though, censorship works on a civil level — through norms, laws and citizen identification.
What’s Next
Today we’re celebrating, but tomorrow we’ll go back to working on AmneziaWG, the app, and the fight against censorship around the world. As always, we have big plans:
- By the end of the year, we’ll expand the number of locations available for connection — there will be more than 100.
- We’ll keep expanding and deepening our infrastructure to make it invulnerable to any attacks.
- We’ll add location sorting by ping to the app and set up keeping the connection alive when you switch locations.
- In Amnezia Self-hosted — we’ll roll out server diagnostics and improve logging.
- For all users — we’ll add support for config files on routers.
- We’ll keep developing our many services — Free, Premium, Hosting, Business — and our solutions, including our own AmneziaWG protocol. Spoiler alert: we’re getting new services ready to launch 🤫
Celebrate with us — visit our site over the course of the month and win prizes!
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