- Jurisdiction
- Gibraltar
- Founded
- 2009
- Owner
- IVPN Limited (Privatus Limited)
- Best price
- $4.00/mo
- Devices
- 7
- Free tier
- No
Best for
- · Privacy purists who dislike upsells
- · Anonymous signup & payment
- · Anti-tracking and multi-hop
Not ideal for
- · Streaming and large server networks
- · Free-tier seekers
Strengths
- ✓Anonymous account-ID signup; accepts cash and Monero
- ✓Annual Cure53 audits (7 consecutive)
- ✓RAM-only servers; refuses affiliate/upsell dark patterns
- ✓Pro plan adds multi-hop and port forwarding
Weaknesses
- ✗Smaller network (~32 countries)
- ✗Pricier than mainstream VPNs feature-for-feature
- ✗No free tier or trial (30-day refund only)
Protocols & encryption
The tunnelling protocols this service offers and the cryptography behind them.
WireGuard
ModernA modern, lean protocol (~4,000 lines of code) that is fast and easy to audit. Its cryptography is fixed and state-of-the-art, with no weak options to misconfigure.
- Data cipher
- ChaCha20-Poly1305
- Key exchange
- Curve25519 (ECDH)
- Integrity
- BLAKE2s
OpenVPN
TrustedThe mature, widely-trusted open-source standard. Flexible and heavily audited over two decades, though slower than WireGuard.
- Data cipher
- AES-256-GCM
- Key exchange
- RSA-4096 / ECDH
- Integrity
- SHA-256 / SHA-512 HMAC
IKEv2 / IPsec
TrustedA fast, stable protocol that reconnects quickly when you change networks, so it is popular on mobile. Built natively into most operating systems.
- Data cipher
- AES-256-GCM
- Key exchange
- Diffie-Hellman (ECP)
- Integrity
- SHA-256 / SHA-384
- Stated data cipher
- ChaCha20 / AES-256
- Stated handshake
- Curve25519 / RSA-4096
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Yes
- Post-quantum resistant
- Yes
- RAM-only servers
- Yes
- Kill switch
- Yes
- First-party DNS (leak protection)
- Yes
- IPv6
- Unknown
Post-quantum: Quantum-resistant WireGuard, on by default in IVPN apps: a post-quantum KEM (Kyber-1024 on mobile; Kyber-1024 + Classic-McEliece-348864 on desktop, via liboqs) derives a rotating WireGuard PresharedKey for an extra symmetric layer.
Full data sheet
Every attribute we track, coloured by whether it helps or hurts your privacy.
| Based in | Gibraltar |
| Eyes alliance | Outside 5/9/14 Eyes |
| Enemy of the Internet | No |
| Owner | IVPN Limited (Privatus Limited) |
| Conglomerate | n/a |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Traffic / activity | None kept |
| DNS requests | None kept |
| Timestamps | None kept |
| Bandwidth | None kept |
| Source IP address | None kept |
No connection or activity logs; RAM-only servers. No-logs verified by repeated annual Cure53 audits.
| Anonymous signup | Yes |
| Accepts cash | Yes |
| Accepts crypto | Yes |
| PGP key | Yes |
| OpenVPN | Yes |
| WireGuard | Yes |
| Proprietary protocol | n/a |
| Multi-hop | Yes |
| Obfuscation | Unknown |
| Kill switch | Yes |
| First-party DNS | Yes |
| RAM-only servers | Yes |
| Port forwarding | Unknown |
| P2P / torrenting | Unknown |
| IPv6 | Unknown |
| Data cipher | ChaCha20 / AES-256 |
| Handshake | Curve25519 / RSA-4096 |
| Open-source clients | Yes, all apps |
| Independent audits | 2 |
| Transparency report | Yes |
| Court / seizure-tested | Unknown |
Gibraltar has no mandatory data-retention law; IVPN publishes a transparency report and warrant canary.
| Simultaneous devices | 7 |
| Countries | 32 |
| Servers | n/a |
| Linux support | GUI app |
| Month-to-month | $6.00 |
| Best $/mo | $4.00 |
| On plan | 3-year (Standard) |
| Free trial | n/a |
| Refund window | 30 days |
| Free tier | No |
| Logging policy | Consistent |
| Marketing honesty | No overclaiming |
Independent audits
- Cure53· 2025 · 7th annual security audit
- Cure53· 2024 · apps + infrastructure
Standard plan allows 2 devices; Pro allows 7 and adds multi-hop.
Sources
Last verified 2026-06-17. Point-in-time data, so always confirm on the provider's own site.