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PrivateVPN

Sweden, a very precise no-logs promise, and nobody has ever checked it.

Last verified 2026-08-26

Ratings

Speed2/5

Not measured on the bench used for most entries here. AllAboutCookies recorded losses around two thirds in every one of four regions in testing, against a 314.70 Mbps baseline

Privacy3/5
Ease of use3/5
Value3/5

At a glance

Cheapest plan

$2 a month

Thirty-six months

Based in

Sweden

PrivateVPN Global AB, Swedish company registration 559282-2182

Government data sharing

Shares with 13 allied governments (Fourteen Eyes)

Independently checked

Never checked by anyone outside

No third-party examination of the logging policy has ever been published

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About PrivateVPN

The commitment here is written unusually specifically. Rather than promising no logs and leaving the term undefined, the policy enumerates what is not recorded: browsing history, traffic destination, connection timestamps, DNS queries, the IP address you were allocated and the one you connected from, content and bandwidth. Naming the allocated and the connecting address separately is the detail that stands out, because those are the two records that identify a session after the fact.

Specificity of that kind is worth something on its own. A general promise can be quietly reinterpreted; a list this particular would have to be contradicted outright, and the company that wrote it is small enough that it is the same people answering for it.

The cost is that nobody has ever checked. No outside firm has examined the claim, so the wording is the whole of the evidence. Independent testing also measured the tunnel taking roughly two thirds of the connection in every region tried, which is consistent but heavy, and Sweden shares intelligence with thirteen other governments — a fact about the jurisdiction that no amount of careful drafting can answer.

Features

  • Supported
  • Paid
  • Not supported
  • Not recorded
  • Cuts your connection if the VPN dropsSupported
  • Send some apps around the VPNSupported
  • Port forwardingSupported
  • An IP address only you usePaid
  • Route through two serversNot supported
  • Blocks ads and trackersNot supported
  • Servers keep nothing on diskNot supported
  • Apps are open sourceNot supported
  • Hides that you are using a VPNSupported
  • Built-in access to the Tor networkNot supported
  • SOCKS5 proxy includedSupported
  • Ships a named streaming tool, not just a claimSupported
  • Sign up without an email addressNot supported
  • Pay in cashNot supported
  • Stops IPv6 leaking your locationNot recorded
  • Unlimited devicesNot supported
  • Renews at the price you paidNot recorded

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