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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Proton, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Proton matches.
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Proton’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Proton uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 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