StarVPN

A residential proxy network that also sells a VPN

StarVPN presents itself first as a "Secure Residential VPN for Business", an "exclusive IP network for hassle free web scraping and data collection", and only second as a consumer VPN. The homepage leads with static residential, rotating residential, mobile and datacenter IP addresses, and its use cases are web data extraction, ad verification, social media marketing, bulk online shopping, SEO monitoring and price comparison. A free plan sits alongside the paid tiers, pitched at streaming: "Sign up now and enjoy unrestricted global streaming services with our free VPN plan!" The page title advertises ISP IPs "in USA, Canada, UK and more".

On who can buy it, the site says little directly. Prices on the homepage are shown in US dollars, and the site offers its own apps as direct downloads for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, plus links to the open-source OpenVPN clients for each platform. It does not link to an app store listing, does not list payment methods, and does not name any country it will or will not sell to. Ordering runs through a signup page and a member dashboard. The homepage says "Free trials are available upon review" without saying who reviews them or on what basis.

The operator is named only in small print. The Windows app entry lists its author as Star Internet Services Inc., the Android and iOS entries give Star Internet Services, the macOS entry gives StarVPN Inc., and the footer reads "StarVPN Inc. All rights reserved." The site does not say where either company is incorporated or based, and does not name owners, leadership or a parent company.

What the site says about logging and trust

The provider's claim on logging is a single homepage feature block headed "Strict No-Log Policy", which states that StarVPN "follows a strictly enforced no-logs policy - we do not track, store, or share your online activity." That is the provider's own statement. The site does not name an independent audit of its logging policy.

The homepage does not break the claim down. It does not say what the company keeps for billing, for the member dashboard's "VPN Usage Statistics" view, for its API, or for abuse handling, even though the dashboard and API let customers pick an ISP, country and region and update IPs on demand. The footer links a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and a reader who cares about retention should read those documents rather than rely on the one-line summary.

The site's other trust language is marketing. It describes "military grade encryption" and names AES-256 and AmneziaWG, says its residential proxies "provide the highest level of anonymity to protect your real identity from being detected", and describes its IPs as "ethically sourced" home cable and DSL connections. It does not explain how those residential IPs are sourced or on what terms the households or ISPs behind them take part, which is the question a residential proxy network most needs to answer. The homepage also says users can "browse the internet safe and securely in any authoritarian country with AES-256 encryption and AmneziaWG", which is the provider's claim, with no named country or test behind it.

The product and the network

The site says customers connect "over SOCKS, HTTP, OpenVPN, Wireguard or Amnezia protocols", and the plan cards list SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, OpenVPN and WireGuard, and AmneziaWG obfuscation. It also mentions a "proprietary multi-hop protocol" in a speed claim without describing how it works.

The homepage publishes the size of its pool as the provider's own figures: 10,000 datacenter IPs, 20,000 static residential IPs, 3,000,000 home cable or DSL IPs and 50,000 mobile 4G IPs. Elsewhere it says "Over 3M+ real residential IP's and 1000+ access point servers globally" and calls itself "one of the largest residential VPN proxy operators in the market", while the footer goes further with "The worlds largest Residential VPN service provider". It says its residential proxy network is "distributed among the top Fortune 500 Cable ISP's in the US" and that static residential IPs are "hosted in Tier 1 facilities", with a stated 99% up-time on one block and 99.9% uptime on the Enterprise card.

The features listed "with all our VPN Plans" are a DNS changer, VPN obfuscation "to bypass the most advanced great firewalls", a kill switch, start on boot, WebRTC and UDP protection, Smart Streamer, IPv6 leak protection (the site says "we assign you an IPv6 residential IP with all plans") and split tunneling. A dashboard and API let customers update IPs, choose an ISP by ASN, country and region, and switch between rotating and static types. A "Windows OS Fingerprint" feature is described as passive OS fingerprint matching with a 1500 MTU packet header configuration.

Smart Streamer is the consumer hook. The site calls it "Smart DNS Technology to access all your favorite online streaming services safe and securely" and says it is "included for free on all plans including datacenter VPN". It names no streaming service. Smart DNS is a DNS feature rather than the encrypted tunnel, and the site does not say whether Smart Streamer traffic is encrypted.

The app listings carry their own dates: the Windows app shows a last-modified date of January 12th, 2025 and supports Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 and 2012+ Server Editions, with a separate 32-bit download; the macOS app shows August 2023, the Android app April 6th 2022 and the iOS app September 15th 2022. The site does not say whether later versions exist elsewhere.

Plans, limits and prices

The homepage shows 4 paid options, each as a starting price in US dollars:

• Datacenter VPN, shown at $8 per month with "15 lines min": unmetered data, 500 IP updates per month, datacenter, static residential, rotating residential and mobile IPs, Smart Streamer, 10 device connections, SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, OpenVPN and WireGuard, and AmneziaWG obfuscation.
• Business Residential, shown at $20 per month: unmetered data, "6+ Countries (static IP)", 20 static IP updates per month, Tier 1 ISPs and 10 device connections, with the same protocol list.
• Premium Residential, shown at $45 per month: "10GB daily use (rotating/sticky)", "60+ countries (rotating/sticky)", "1000 manual IP updates (sticky)", home residential user IPs and 10 device connections.
• Enterprise Proxies, shown at $1 per GB "Starting at 100GB monthly", with unlimited IP updates, "No speed limits", country, region and ISP targeting, sticky IPs, SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy access and a dedicated account manager. This card lists no VPN protocols.

The Business Residential and Premium Residential cards show "lines min" without a number, so the minimum commitment on those tiers is not stated. None of the cards says how often it is billed beyond "per month" or "per GB", whether longer terms are discounted, or what a plan renews at. The site does not state a renewal price or a refund policy. The free plan is described only through its streaming pitch and the "Free trials are available upon review" line; the site does not state the free plan's limits, which features it includes, or how it is funded.

Support runs through the member dashboard, a ticket system ("My Tickets" in the menu), a Contact Us page, setup instructions for VPN and SOCKS, and an FAQ. The site does not publish support hours or response times. Its footer also links an affiliate program and a blog.

What stays open, and who it fits

The biggest open question is the one this directory weighs most: the no-logs claim is a single sentence from the provider, and the site does not name an independent audit of its logging policy. It also leaves unsaid where Star Internet Services Inc. or StarVPN Inc. is based, who owns them, how the residential IPs are sourced, what the free plan includes, what minimum applies on the Business Residential and Premium Residential cards, and what any plan costs at renewal.

On the positive side, the homepage is unusually specific about what the network contains and what each tier includes, from IP update allowances to device limits, and the feature list covers the basics a VPN buyer expects: kill switch, split tunneling, leak protection, obfuscation and a choice of WireGuard, OpenVPN and AmneziaWG.

StarVPN fits people who want residential or mobile IP addresses for scraping, ad checks, price monitoring or account work, and who are comfortable configuring SOCKS or HTTP proxies alongside a VPN client. A budget buyer looking for a free streaming option may find the free plan and Smart Streamer worth a try, bearing in mind the terms are unstated. It suits less well anyone who wants a plain personal privacy VPN with a clearly documented logging policy, a named company and jurisdiction, and a published renewal price.