Proton Drive review

Plans start at $4.99. Priced by storage, that works out to $95.88 a year, close to the €82.87 typical across this group. Paid tiers are the way most people reach more space, while the free tier covers 5.

There is a free plan, and it includes 5 of storage, which matches the 5 median for this group. Alongside it sits a free password manager that covers as many logins, notes, payment cards and connected devices as needed, with a cap on hide-my-email aliases.

The bundled password manager's free tier caps hide-my-email aliases and leaves out the authenticator app, secure sharing, file attachments and dark web monitoring, while passkeys and password health alerts are included. Storage on the same free account is 5.

Its encryption is the kind Proton says it has no technical means to break, and it makes the same claim about stored passwords and notes. The apps are open source, so the code can be checked rather than trusted, and the operation is audited to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.

The legal entity is Proton AG, registered and headquartered in Switzerland, and that is also the jurisdiction it operates under. The company was founded in 2014 and has stayed there since, so the governing law is known up front.

Permanent IP logs are not kept as the standard. Short-lived records exist to fight abuse and fraud, and the record of who signs in starts switched off. Proton also says the company itself cannot open encrypted passwords or notes. The policy sits under CH law.

There is cover for Windows, macOS and Linux. That spans the main desktop systems, both mobile systems, a web app, a command line interface and the common browsers, including Brave. The same account works from a phone, a laptop or a shell.

The apps are open source, which puts Proton with the 56.6% share of brands here that publish their code. Independent audits cover the operation to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, so there is outside scrutiny of how the service is run.

Support runs on help centre and community. The help centre is the norm across this group, matching the 95.4% share of brands that offer one, with a community forum as the second route. Live chat and phone are not among the listed channels.