I do not have personal experience with their paid plan, but I have used Portmaster. Seems comparable to a traditional VPN, and there's a few things to note about Safing, Portmaster, and the SPN:

Safing donates money to privacyguides.org. Excellent start.
Supposedly the SPN (Safing Privacy Network) works similarly to Tor, and like Tor, each node doesn't know the originating IP and the destination simultaneously. Access is assigned with a blind, randomly generated token after Portmaster validates that you are allowed to access the SPN
It's being acquired by IVPN. I don't know much about them, but they have supposedly contributed a lot of good code to Portmaster, and they are recommended by Privacy Guides.
SPN was audited by Cure53 in 2020.
No mobile client (yet).

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

This is really interesting, I'm also hoping someone can share experiences here.

I wanted to comment that at the bottom of the website there is a link to their whitepaper written in 2019 that has very interesting look into network privacy, recommend reading a bit: https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf