- Jurisdiction
- Sweden (fourteen eyes)
- Founded
- 2009
- Owner
- Mullvad VPN AB (Amagicom AB)
- Best price
- $5.80/mo
- Devices
- 5
- Free tier
- No
Best for
- · Privacy purists
- · Anonymous signup & payment
- · Whistleblowers and journalists
Not ideal for
- · Large streaming libraries (no port forwarding, modest network)
- · Bargain hunters wanting multi-year discounts
Strengths
- ✓Account-number signup with no email or personal data
- ✓Flat €5/mo, no manipulative tiers or upsells
- ✓Accepts cash and Monero; RAM-only servers
- ✓Repeatedly audited; survived a real police search with no data to give
Weaknesses
- ✗No free trial and only a 14-day refund (not on cash payments)
- ✗Removed port forwarding in 2023, weakening some P2P use
- ✗Sweden sits within the 14 Eyes alliance
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
- Stated data cipher
- ChaCha20 (WireGuard) / AES-256 (OpenVPN)
- Stated handshake
- Curve25519
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Yes
- Post-quantum resistant
- Yes
- RAM-only servers
- Yes
- Kill switch
- Yes
- First-party DNS (leak protection)
- Yes
- IPv6
- Supported
Post-quantum: Quantum-resistant WireGuard tunnels using Classic McEliece 460896 + ML-KEM-1024 (Kyber lineage); a post-handshake exchange sets a WireGuard pre-shared key. Default on desktop since the 2025 releases.
Full data sheet
Every attribute we track, coloured by whether it helps or hurts your privacy.
| Based in | Sweden |
| Eyes alliance | 14 Eyes |
| Enemy of the Internet | No |
| Owner | Mullvad VPN AB (Amagicom AB) |
| 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 activity or connection logs; only a live count of active connections to enforce the 5-device limit.
| Anonymous signup | Yes |
| Accepts cash | Yes |
| Accepts crypto | Yes |
| PGP key | Yes |
| OpenVPN | Yes |
| WireGuard | Yes |
| Proprietary protocol | n/a |
| Multi-hop | Yes |
| Obfuscation | Yes |
| Kill switch | Yes |
| First-party DNS | Yes |
| RAM-only servers | Yes |
| Port forwarding | No |
| P2P / torrenting | Yes |
| IPv6 | Supported |
| Data cipher | ChaCha20 (WireGuard) / AES-256 (OpenVPN) |
| Handshake | Curve25519 |
| Open-source clients | Yes, all apps |
| Independent audits | 2 |
| Transparency report | Yes |
| Court / seizure-tested | Proven |
In April 2023 Swedish police executed a search warrant at Mullvad's office and left empty-handed, there was no customer data to seize.
| Simultaneous devices | 5 |
| Countries | 45 |
| Servers | n/a |
| Linux support | GUI app |
| Month-to-month | $5.80 |
| Best $/mo | $5.80 |
| On plan | flat rate (no discount) |
| Free trial | n/a |
| Refund window | 14 days |
| Free tier | No |
| Logging policy | Consistent |
| Marketing honesty | No overclaiming |
Independent audits
- Assured AB· 2025 · web application penetration testreport ↗
- Cure53· 2020 · apps + infrastructure
Owned by Amagicom AB. Pricing is a deliberate single flat rate whether you pay monthly or yearly; crypto payments get a 10% discount.
Sources
Last verified 2026-06-17. Point-in-time data, so always confirm on the provider's own site.