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Lantern

Who runs Lantern, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest VPN / censorship circumvention alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Psiphon

Measured from Lantern’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Lantern

Lantern lantern.io

Nonprofit VPN trusted by 250+ million people. Fast, private internet access that bypasses censorship. Free to start, Pro funds open access in censored regions.

Wikidata: Internet censorship circumvention software

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Lantern tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Lantern

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Lantern match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lantern adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
34 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Fonts
CDN
Hosting
  • Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::bnqg9-1794173788780-0e80bade9acc
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1mAinn_oRMTg6bA_RMYrCfl5PsmoiR7e8VDFekJzQnc
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-L1icUOz0haAvlhSkGlEzqPPw