Amnezia VPN is a service built on free and open-source software and developed by Amnezia, a company that creates tools for self-hosted VPN infrastructure and censorship circumvention. It lets users create a personal VPN on their own server, also offers managed VPN services, and supports several protocols, including OpenVPN, WireGuard, Shadowsocks, IKEv2, Cloak, Xray and AmneziaWG. The project was started by Internet activists from Russia searching for ways to resist state censorship.
Background and development
The first version of Amnezia VPN was designed during the Demhack hackathon in 2020, an event organized by digital human rights activists from Roskomsvoboda. The project is maintained by Internet activists from Russia who seek solutions to state censorship. Amnezia has published its source code, and in 2022, 2024 and 2025 the service passed security audits conducted by 7ASecurity. The developers also introduced their own AmneziaWG protocol, an improved version of WireGuard designed for restrictive internet environments.
Services and availability
Amnezia offers several products, including Amnezia Free, which gives access to blocked media and social networks in heavily censored countries, and Amnezia Premium, a paid service. Amnezia Business targets organizations and remote teams, while Amnezia Self-hosted is a free tool for deploying VPN infrastructure on rented or owned servers. The service does not require registration and states that it keeps no user logs.