Every fact we hold
Mullvad
No email, no name, cash in an envelope: the privacy purist's VPN.
$5.60 a month on the any term plan
$67.20 billed up front, then $67.20 a year. Monthly with no commitment: $5.60. 14-day refund.
No discounts, no sales; 10% off when paying in crypto.
For
- +No email, no name, cash accepted
- +Open source, regularly audited, survived a police raid
- +One flat price, no renewal trap
- +P2P everywhere
Against
- –Only 5 devices
- –Weak for streaming and makes no claim otherwise
- –Most expensive per month on a long-term basis
- –Sweden is a 14 Eyes country
The facts, each with its receipt
- Based in
- Sweden · 14 Eyes alliancechecked 2026-10-11 · source · Swedish law; the company has fought and won against logging demands.
- Owned by
- Amagicom AB, privately held by its founderschecked 2026-10-11 · source
- Best plan
- $5.60/mo · any term · $67.20 up front · renews $67.20/yrchecked 2026-10-11 · source
- Monthly
- $5.60 · €5 flat; the same price for 1 month or 10 years.checked 2026-10-11 · source
- Devices at once
- 5checked 2026-10-11 · source
- Countries
- 49 · 650+ serverschecked 2026-10-11 · source · About 650 servers; all owned or rented bare metal with no disks on most.
- No-logs audit
- Yes · Cure53 / Assured · latest 2024 · 8 auditschecked 2026-10-11 · source · Regular infrastructure and app audits since 2018; a 2023 police raid left with nothing.
- Open-source apps
- Yeschecked 2026-10-11 · source
- Pay without a name
- no email needed · cash · cryptochecked 2026-10-11 · source · An account is a random 16-digit number; cash and Monero accepted.
- Protocols
- WireGuard, OpenVPNchecked 2026-10-11 · source
- Blocked networks
- checked 2026-10-11 · source · WireGuard obfuscation (udp2tcp, Shadowsocks); works in some blocked networks, not promised.
- Streaming
- Netflix iPlayer Not a streaming product; some libraries work, no promises, no support for it.checked 2026-10-11 · source
- Torrenting
- checked 2026-10-11 · source · P2P everywhere; port forwarding was removed in 2023.
- Speed
- checked 2026-10-11 · source
- Free tier
- Nochecked 2026-10-11 · source
- Refund
- 14 dayschecked 2026-10-11 · source · Not for cash payments.
- Extras
- DNS content blocking · Multihop · DAITA (traffic-analysis defence) · Quantum-resistant tunnelschecked 2026-10-11 · source
Servers by country, from Mullvad’s own list
50 countries as of 2026-10-12. source
USA: 209 servers · 21 citiesSweden: 37 servers · 3 citiesCanada: 29 servers · 4 citiesGermany: 25 servers · 3 citiesAustralia: 22 servers · 5 citiesUK: 22 servers · 3 citiesSwitzerland: 14 servers · 1 cityFrance: 13 servers · 3 citiesNetherlands: 13 servers · 1 citySpain: 11 servers · 3 citiesNorway: 10 servers · 2 citiesFinland: 9 servers · 1 city
How Mullvad pays us
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