IVPN vs AirVPN

These two are aimed at the same unusual reader: somebody who wants a VPN without an account, without a sales funnel, and preferably billed by the week rather than the decade. They are the two most similar products in this directory and they still differ on the thing that matters most.

What anybody outside the company has checked

No outside firm has ever examined AirVPN. It offers open-source clients and a live public monitor showing what every server is doing, continuously, which is genuine transparency and is not the same as an independent examination of whether logs are kept.

IVPN has been examined, but not recently on the point that counts: Cure53's May 2025 audit covered the email and DNS side services, the VPN gateways were last looked at in February 2023, and the no-logs claim itself was last examined by an outside firm in 2019. Its clients are open source too.

So one has stale evidence and the other has none, and both compensate with structure: neither asks for an email address, both take cryptocurrency, and both publish source.

Platforms, and where each one simply stops

AirVPN has no iPhone or iPad app at all. For most households that ends it, regardless of anything else on this page. Italian residents are also not permitted to use the service, which is an unusual restriction and a real one.

IVPN has no Apple TV app, and its Android build does not run on Amazon's fork of Android, so a Fire tablet or Fire TV is out. It caps the entry plan at five devices and has no port forwarding on any plan.

AirVPN includes every feature on every plan with no tiers, port forwarding among them, and sells by the three days. IVPN sells by the week, includes multi-hop on its cheapest plan, and never raises the price at renewal.

Jurisdiction is a wash and not a good one: AirVPN is registered in Perugia and IVPN in Gibraltar, which is inside the five-country arrangement through Britain, though it has no interception law and no intelligence service of its own.

Which should you choose?

Choose IVPN if any Apple device needs covering, or if having been examined at all — however long ago — matters more than a live server monitor.

Choose AirVPN if you need port forwarding, want every feature on the cheapest plan, and have no iPhone in the house.