IVPN vs OVPN

Both of these are small, quiet services with a real argument and a thin evidence file. Neither has a current independent audit of its no-logs claim, and each substitutes something different for one.

An anonymous account against a court case

IVPN's account is a random number with no email address and no password, it takes cash, and every client is open source. What it does not have is recent examination: Cure53's May 2025 audit covered the email and DNS side services, the gateways were last looked at in February 2023, and the no-logs claim itself was last examined by an outside firm in 2019.

OVPN's argument is what happened when it was tested. In 2020 a court demanded customer data and it had none to give, and it won the case on that basis. It builds and owns its servers and runs them without disks, and carries insurance specifically to fund defending a legal demand.

A demand that arrived and went away empty is the stronger evidence. IVPN's structure means a demand would probably go the same way, but that has not been put to the test.

Ownership, and what it changes

IVPN Limited is registered in Gibraltar and wholly owned by its founder. Gibraltar is inside the five-country arrangement through Britain but has no interception law and no intelligence service of its own, which makes it a stranger address than it first appears rather than a worse one.

OVPN was acquired in May 2023 by an American group now trading as Point Wild, which sells several other VPN brands including Hotspot Shield, a service with no audit at all and a kill switch that leaked during a crash. Sweden is inside the fourteen-country agreement. The 2020 case stands, but the company behind it changed hands three years later.

On product, IVPN puts multi-hop on its cheapest plan, never raises the price at renewal, sells by the week, and adds a SOCKS5 proxy and IPv6 protection. It caps the entry plan at five devices and has no port forwarding. OVPN allows four devices on the monthly plan, supports streaming, and runs memory-only servers.

Which should you choose?

Choose IVPN if signing up without an identity is the point, or if you want a company owned by the person running it and a price that stays fixed.

Choose OVPN if a real court case outweighs an anonymous signup, and you can set aside the change of owner since.