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Proton
Who runs Proton, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest privacy-focused online services alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Tuta
Measured from Proton’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Proton01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Proton
Proton proton.me
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
Wikidata: Swiss technology company focused on digital privacy
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Proton 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 Proton
None of the 60 sites closest to Proton 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 Proton 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: <astro-island
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-bg-opacity:
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=4UIZgETX8lGnv0WwpeJJbszo9daKOdXXYBKCA2XLf94
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 95a7888a0f987e6a
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Atlassian · not on proton.me 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on proton.me 7/20
- Zendesk · not on proton.me 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on proton.me 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on proton.me 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on proton.me 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on proton.me 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on proton.me 4/20
- HubSpot · not on proton.me 4/20
- Slack · not on proton.me 3/20
- nginx · not on proton.me 3/20
- OpenAI · not on proton.me 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on proton.me 3/20
- Apple Business · not on proton.me 3/20
- Astro 2/20