Is My VPN Working? — Instant VPN Status Checker

This tool checks whether your internet connection is routed through a VPN by analyzing your public IP address and the organization that owns it. When you use a VPN, your traffic exits through the VPN provider's servers, so your visible IP address belongs to the VPN company rather than your ISP.

We compare your IP's registered organization against a database of known VPN providers, hosting companies, and datacenter operators. If your IP belongs to one of these networks, it's a strong indicator that you're using a VPN or proxy. We also check for timezone mismatches between your browser and your IP's geolocation.

No detection method is 100% accurate. Some VPN providers use residential IP addresses that are harder to identify, and some ISPs operate networks that look similar to datacenters. For the most thorough privacy check, combine this tool with our DNS Leak Test and WebRTC Leak Test.

VPN detection is a judgement about who owns an address, not a measurement of your tunnel. When this page reports a VPN, it means your public IP belongs to a network we recognise as commercial VPN or datacenter infrastructure. When it reports nothing, that is not evidence your VPN is off: providers that hand out residential or dedicated addresses are invisible to every detector, including the ones streaming services and banks use. For those users, "not detected" is the product working exactly as sold.

A positive result proves only that your traffic exits somewhere other than your ISP. It says nothing about whether your provider keeps connection logs, which ciphers the tunnel negotiates, or whether the client leaks during a reconnect. Those are policy and software questions that no external page can answer by looking at an IP address. Treat this check as the first of four: the DNS, WebRTC and IPv6 leak tests measure whether your traffic actually stays inside the tunnel, which is the part that fails most often in practice.

Your address is resolved on our own servers. Geolocation, ISP and ASN come from a locally hosted copy of the free DB-IP Lite database; the proxy and hosting flags come from the public Tor exit list and open datacenter range lists. Your IP is never forwarded to a commercial lookup API — which is what most "is my VPN working" pages do on every load, handing your address to a third party as the price of telling you it is hidden. The lookup happens in memory, the result is shown to you, and nothing about it is written to disk.