Everything readers most often want to know about how Cypheran works, what we compare and how the rankings come together.
Cypheran is an editorial comparison portal that introduces, evaluates and compares popular consumer antivirus programs and VPN services. Visitors find editorial deep-dives, scores and feature overviews for each product to help inform a purchase decision.
The full list of criteria — market presence, feature set, third-party sources, in-house interaction, user feedback and more — is laid out on our Methodology page. Editorial scores reflect our own assessment and are not independent laboratory benchmarks.
The two main comparison pages (Antivirus and VPN) list every provider we cover with a feature summary, pricing and a link to the editorial deep-dive. You can also jump straight to the Overview to see all providers on one page.
Yes — we cover 10 consumer VPN providers alongside the antivirus comparison, including TotalAV, NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark, CyberGhost, ProtonVPN, PureVPN, HMA, PrivateVPN and UltraVPN, plus additional legacy brands (TotalVPN, Avira Phantom, PIA, VyprVPN) accessible from the Overview.
It's a shortlist of the ten consumer products in each category we consider most relevant to readers at the time of the last editorial review, ranked according to our methodology. Relevance changes — we update the shortlists as new versions, pricing changes and test results come in.
Content is reviewed and revised on a rolling basis whenever providers change their feature set, pricing or plan structure. The year indicator in each deep-dive's title reflects the most recent editorial pass.
Yes — access to every comparison, deep-dive and FAQ is free. The site is financed through affiliate commissions: when readers click through to a provider and subscribe, the provider may pay us a commission at no extra cost to the reader. See Terms of Use for the full disclosure.
Each product page has a "Visit [Brand]" button that takes you to the provider's own site. You purchase, download and install the software there — Cypheran does not sell or host the software itself.
Both are linked from the footer of every page and on this page: Privacy Policy, Imprint, Terms of Use.
Cypheran is an independent comparison portal specialising in consumer security software. The operator contact details are published in the Imprint.
