At a glance
$5 a month
Standard, one year
Gibraltar
IVPN Limited, registered in Gibraltar and wholly owned by its founder
Shares with 4 allied governments (Five Eyes)
Gibraltar signed nothing itself, but has no interception law and no intelligence service of its own
Checked, but not recently
Cure53's May 2025 audit covered the email and DNS side services; the VPN gateways were last examined in February 2023
About IVPN
IVPN is built on the position that most people asking for a VPN do not need one, and says so on its own site rather than in an interview. Registration issues a random account identifier: no email address, no password, nothing tying the account to a person unless you volunteer it. Cash by post is accepted on any term of a year or longer.
The engineering follows the argument. Every client is open source under GPLv3, multi-hop routing through two countries is included on the cheapest plan rather than sold as a tier, and the desktop apps run a system firewall that blocks everything outside the tunnel and can be left on across a reboot. AntiTracker filters ads and trackers at DNS level, and connections can be disguised with V2Ray on every platform.
The cost is that the audit record is thinner than the annual cadence suggests. Cure53 has examined the service every year, but the 2025 engagement covered the mail and DNS side products; the gateways you connect through were last audited in February 2023, and the no-logs claim itself only ever in March 2019 — a format the company says it will not repeat. Five devices is the ceiling on Standard, and no plan offers port forwarding.
Features
Supported(11)
- Cuts your connection if the VPN drops
- Lets some apps bypass the VPN
- Routes through two servers
- Blocks ads and trackers
- Publishes the source code of its apps
- Hides that you are using a VPN
- Includes a SOCKS5 proxy
- Lets you sign up without an email address
- Takes payment in cash
- Stops IPv6 leaking your location
- Renews at the price you paid
Not supported(5)
- Forwards a port to your device
- Gives you an IP address no one else uses
- Runs servers that keep nothing on disk
- Ships a named streaming tool, not just a claim
- Allows unlimited devices
Not recorded(1)
- Reaches the Tor network from the app
