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Score good Top 10 of 41 VPNs of 10
  • No-logs & security 8.5
  • Anonymity 4.0
  • Trust 8.0
  • Costs 3.1

How it is made up ↓Methodology →

To NordVPN

NordVPN is a commercial VPN service with three paid plans (Basic, Complete and Ultimate Max). Besides cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfer and prepaid cards bought with cash, it accepts cryptocurrency; the pricing page names Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin.

Prices. On the longest term the cheapest plan starts at unknown per month as an introductory price; month-to-month billing starts at unknown. Renewals are charged at higher regular prices. There is no free plan. New users can request a full refund within 30 days; app-store purchases must be refunded by the store. A free trial is offered only in the Android app and not in every country.

Privacy. The support article on stored data says: "NordVPN does not log any of your activity online. The only information we keep about our users is their encrypted login credentials and billing information for refund procedures." Signup requires an email address; NordVPN keeps the email, a username and the transaction or order ID. Its no-log practices have been reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and later Deloitte. Servers run from RAM only, part of the network is owned by NordVPN itself, the Linux app is open source, transparency reports are published quarterly and diagnostic logs are sent only when the user chooses to.

Network and features. About 7,200 servers; up to 10 devices per account. Protocols: NordLynx (WireGuard-based), OpenVPN, IKEv2 (manual setup) and the proprietary NordWhisper for restrictive networks. Features include a kill switch, split tunneling, Double VPN (multihop), obfuscated servers, Onion Over VPN and post-quantum encryption (NordLynx only). P2P is allowed on all standard servers; a dedicated IP is available. Apps exist for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Android TV/tvOS, routers and browser extensions. Support is by live chat and email.

Basicsnordvpn

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, routers, browser extension, TV nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Own apps
own apps nordvpn.com checked 2 Nov 2026
Protocols
WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, an own protocol nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Devices at once
10 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Free plan
No nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Free trial
Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Money-back guarantee (days)
30 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Refund policy
Full refund if requested within 30 days of initial purchase via 24/7 customer support; purchases made on the Amazon Store, App Store or Google Play must be refunded directly by those stores. nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Fees and variants

Attribute Basic Complete Ultimate Max
VPN
Devices at once 10 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Fees
Price per month 14.99 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 19.99 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 23.79 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Price per year 74.85 EUR promotion, no end date stated nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 , regular 173.85 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 89.85 EUR promotion, no end date stated nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 , regular unknown 149.85 EUR promotion, no end date stated nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 , regular unknown
Lowest monthly price (long-term plan) 3.49 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 3.99 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026 7.99 EUR nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Dedicated IP per month unknown

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Availability

AttributeValue
Customer countries unknown
Use in censoring countries Obfuscated servers prevent VPN traffic from being blocked in countries with high restrictions; the NordWhisper protocol is designed to connect on restrictive networks that block or limit traditional VPN traffic. nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Key countries

  • United States unknown
  • Germany unknown
  • United Kingdom unknown

✓ available · ✗ not available · ? not known from the sources

Server countries

150 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia

Point at or tap a country.

Server countries (150) not listed

Network

AttributeValue
Server countries 150 countries and regions nordvpn.com checked 2 Nov 2026
Servers 7,200 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Features kill switch, split tunneling, multihop, obfuscation, Tor over VPN, post-quantum encryption support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Leak protection & DNS DNS leak protection, WebRTC leak protection, own no-log DNS support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
P2P / torrenting allowed Yes support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Dedicated IP Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Server ownership partly own servers nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Privacy

AttributeValue
Sign-up needs an e-mail address order.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Logging policy no logs support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Data stored per user account e-mail, payment details support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Connection data kept not stored support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Login data kept not published support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Payment data kept not published support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Independent no-log audit Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
No-logs proven in a real case No nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
App telemetry telemetry only on request support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Tor onion site unknown
RAM-only servers Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Open-source apps Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Warrant canary Yes nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Payment

AttributeValue
Pay with BTC, ETH, LTC nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Payment chains unknown
Other payment methods card, PayPal, cash, gift cards, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, local methods nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Promotions

What NordVPN offers itself: referral bonus, welcome bonus, running promotions and partner programme. Values of the provider, with source; no affiliate link in it.

Referral bonus

  • You (referrer)

    3 free months of VPN subscription per referred friend

    Conditions:
    Reward per friend who buys a NordVPN subscription through the referral link; participants must be 18 or older and must not have subscribed via the App Store or Google Play.
    How:
    invite link
    nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
  • Invited friend

    up to 3 free months of VPN subscription

    Conditions:
    New customers who sign up via a referral link get up to 3 extra months; trial of the programme requires the purchase of a subscription.
    How:
    invite link
    nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Promotion

  • Black Friday: Get NordVPN with a next-gen antivirus

    78% off + 3 extra months on the plan with next-gen antivirus

    How:
    invite link
    nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
  • Black Friday

    up to 78 % of fees

    Conditions:
    Up to 78% off on 2-year plans (e.g. Complete at €3.99/mo, €107.73 for the first 27 months instead of €493.83) plus 3 extra months; intro price renews at the regular rate after the first term. No end date is stated on the page.
    nordvpn.com checked 1 Nov 2026

Trust

AttributeValue
Support channels email, live chat support.nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Company founded 2012 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
VPN since 2012 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Company

Founded 2012 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Headquarters Panama nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Ownership

Ownership Subsidiary nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Size

Offices Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Netherlands, Panama, Poland nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Security

Audits and certifications Other (2018), PricewaterhouseCoopers AG Switzerland; Other (2020), PricewaterhouseCoopers AG Switzerland; Other (2022), Deloitte; Other (2023), Deloitte; Other (2024), Deloitte nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026
Bug bounty hackerone.com nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

VPN history

VPN launched 2012 nordvpn.com checked 31 Oct 2026

Transparency

Transparency 60 %

0 of 13 key values not published

  • Imprint / company details: no
  • Public fee schedule: yes
  • Terms and conditions: no
  • Terms with version or date: unknown

Sources last checked 2026-11-02

Official channels

Accounts of NordVPN on social platforms, as linked on its official website: follow announcements, promotions and outages at the source. nordvpn.com checked 1 Nov 2026

We list the accounts the official website links to; we do not rate their content. Logos are trademarks of their owners and only identify the platform.

What users report

All reviews

Ratings on platforms are not representative and sometimes manipulated; they never count as evidence for facts. People mostly write when something goes wrong: hardly anyone posts “KYC was easy and worked right away”, but ten users with verification problems do, often because a step was missed. So we never weigh criticism on its own, only against other offers in the same category. Only the average ratings on App Store, Google Play and Trustpilot count towards our score, damped and compared within the category. Single reports and community posts do not, so the score cannot be swayed by bought reviews.

Praised

  • + Apps7 authors in 90 days
  • + Connection stability6 authors in 90 days
  • + Speed3 authors in 90 days
  • + Unblocking & censorship2 authors in 90 days
  • + Availability1 author in 90 days

Criticised

  • − Connection stability27 authors in 90 days
  • − Apps16 authors in 90 days
  • − Speed12 authors in 90 days
  • − Billing10 authors in 90 days
  • − Support9 authors in 90 days

Distinct authors in 90 days. Happy users mostly praise in general terms, unhappy ones name details, so single topics collect more criticism.

  • Billing issue: 7 authors in 90 days
  • Country blocks: 3 authors in 90 days

Experience reports

Quotes from original reviews, chosen by rule: short reviews in full, longer ones shortened (… marks cuts). Positive and negative in the ratio of the platform stars, without names; the full review is behind the link.

See all 12 experience reports

How the score is made up

7.2 of 10 · good

Weighted sum of the criteria, each 0 to 10 from proven values. A criterion without data is not scored and counts with the category median, not as 0.

The score uses the entry variant Basic; sorting stays with it. With another variant: Complete 6.9 · Ultimate Max 6.8

Methodology and weights
  1. No-logs & securityWeight 30 %
    8.5/10
    2.6 of 3.0 points

    logging policy, which data is stored per user (browsing and DNS data weigh most), how long connection and login data are kept, independent audit, no-logs proven in a real case, RAM-only servers and open-source apps (each counts only with proof), telemetry, post-quantum encryption

  2. AnonymityWeight 20 %
    4.0/10
    0.8 of 2.0 points

    what sign-up asks for (account number only, e-mail, phone), payment with Monero, how long payment data is kept

  3. TrustWeight 15 %
    8.0/10
    1.2 of 1.5 points

    company seat, incidents, company and service age, ownership, security audits, transparency

    Trust in detail
    • Incidents (12 months)Weight 10 % not scored
    • Company age (up to 5 years)Weight 10 % 10.0
    • Service on the market (up to 3 years)Weight 10 % 10.0
    • Brand age (up to 3 years)Weight 15 % not scored
    • Domain historyWeight 10 % not scored
    • OwnershipWeight 10 % 8.0
    • Security evidenceWeight 15 % 10.0
    • TransparencyWeight 10 % 6.0
  4. CostsWeight 10 %
    3.1/10
    0.3 of 1.0 points

    monthly or yearly plan, whichever is cheaper for one year

  5. FeaturesWeight 10 %
    9.1/10
    0.9 of 1.0 points

    own apps (weigh most), WireGuard and OpenVPN, kill switch, split tunneling, multihop, port forwarding, leak protection and own DNS, P2P, devices at once

  6. NetworkWeight 5 %
    10.0/10
    0.5 of 0.5 points

    server countries, number of servers

  7. CensorshipWeight 5 %
    10.0/10
    0.5 of 0.5 points

    obfuscated (stealth) connections that get through VPN blocks, e.g. in China, Iran or Russia

  8. CommunityWeight 5 %
    7.5/10
    0.4 of 0.5 points

    average ratings on App Store, Google Play and Trustpilot, damped, neutral with too little data

News

Recent news about NordVPN from the press and the provider's own channels, rated automatically. · last 90 days: 7 positive, 1 neutral, 0 negative

  1. Nice-Matin Notable Positive Promotion
    NordVPN lance ses promotions Black Friday en avance : Premium tombe à 3,99 €/mois

    Summary: NordVPN brings its Black Friday promotions forward, with Premium falling to 3.99 € per month.

    Also reported by: iPhon, Corse Matin, La Provence, La Tribune +2 more reports

  2. Head Topics Notable Positive Promotion
    NordVPN's $3.99 Plan is a Trap: Here's Why You Should Spend $0.50 More | Technology

    Summary: NordVPN's Complete plan costs only slightly more than its Basic plan and adds antivirus, a password manager, cloud storage and dark web alerts. Every plan includes three bonus months on top of the two-year term, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies.

  3. BFM Notable Positive Promotion
    NordVPN brade le prix de ses abonnements avec 78% de réduction

    Summary: NordVPN is offering a time-limited 78% discount on its two-year Premium plan, which comes to 3.99 euros per month or 107.72 euros for the first 27 months, including three free months.

  4. Gizmodo Notable Positive Promotion
    Don’t Buy NordVPN’s Cheapest Plan Right Now. The Best One Costs 50 Cents More

    Summary: NordVPN's Complete plan adds antivirus, a password manager and 1 TB of encrypted cloud storage to the VPN for a small premium over the Basic plan. The current sale gives 78% off the Complete plan, 107.73 dollars paid upfront for 27 months, and every plan includes three bonus months.

  5. Notre Temps Notable Positive Promotion
    Black Friday : NordVPN baisse ses prix pour mieux protéger vos données en ligne

    Summary: Notre Temps reports that NordVPN lowers its prices for Black Friday.

  6. BFM Notable Positive Promotion
    7 jours pour tester gratuitement l’un des meilleurs VPN du marché, pas de doute c’est plus qu’il n’en faut pour être séduit

    Summary: NordVPN is offering a 7-day free trial on its plans, with no charge if cancelled before 29 October. The article also mentions discounts of up to 78% and 3 months free on subscriptions.

  7. NordVPN Neutral Feature
    NordVPN for macOS: release notes

    Summary: NordVPN's macOS app release notes say the Protect and Monitor tabs now include complementary tools from the Nord Security ecosystem.

  8. BFM Notable Positive Promotion
    NordVPN enrichit son offre avec un antivirus nouvelle génération et en plus les prix sont en baisse avant l’arrivée du Black Friday

    Summary: NordVPN has added a next-generation antivirus to its offer and lowered prices on 1-year and 2-year subscriptions ahead of Black Friday. Three plans are offered, including a Basic plan with a fast and secure VPN.

Headlines link to the original article. Summary, sentiment and severity are an automated assessment of the article, not a statement of fact; we do not store the articles.

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Changelog

  • Score

    Before: 71.05 After: 71.52

  • Score

    Before: 70.63 After: 71.09

  • New: Black Friday.

  • Score

    Before: 57.48 After: 55.73

  • Score

    Before: 53.45 After: 54.98

  • Score

    Before: 60.61 After: 53.45

  • Score

    Before: 66.36 After: 60.61

  • New: Black Friday: Get NordVPN with a next-gen antivirus.

  • Score

    Before: 65.77 After: 66

  • Score

    Before: 65.37 After: 65.77

  • Market launch: January 1, 2012.

  • Headquarters: Panama.

  • Score

    Before: 66.04 After: 65.37

  • New: Referral bonus · Invited friend.

  • New: Referral bonus · You (referrer).

  • Score

    Before: 62.44 After: 66.04

  • Changes to KYC levels and requirements.

  • Score

    Before: 57.44 After: 62.44

  • Score

    Before: 70.82 After: 57.44

  • Score

    Before: 69.82 After: 70.82

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