Free the internet. With Mullvad VPN.
Your IP address is used to identify you, track you, and map your online life. Step 1 in taking back your personal privacy online is masking it with a trustworthy VPN. But that’s not enough. Here you can learn how a VPN works and how it counteracts mass surveillance. How it can be used to circumvent censorship. And what type of data collection it doesn’t protect you against.
€5/month
- Privacy-focused VPN
- No logging. Anonymous accounts.
- Circumvents censorship
- Combats AI-guided traffic analysis
What is a VPN?
The short version.
Your IP address identifies you
All people on the internet have an IP address linked to them. It’s allocated by the internet service provider and makes the internet work. But it also means you carry a digital ID card that can be used to map your life online.
Your ISP registers what you do online
Your internet service provider (ISP) can log all the websites you visit. In many countries they are forced to do this by law. In several cases they do not only share this information with authorities without suspicion, but also sell the data.
Using a VPN makes it harder to monitor you
When you use a VPN, your traffic is encrypted and sent to a VPN server before it travels on to the site you want to visit. This means your ISP can’t see which sites you visit, and that third-party actors can’t use your IP address to identify you.
Use a VPN to circumvent censorship
Many states censor the internet and forbid their people to see a particular type of content. When you use a VPN you can change your geographical location and circumvent censorship – to access an internet with the freedom of information.
Designed to put your privacy first
Anonymous account
We don’t ask for any personal info – not even your email – and we encourage anonymous payments with cash or cryptocurrency.
No logging
Your data is nobody else's business. That’s why we don’t log your activity. Learn more about our no-logging policy
Externally audited
We request independent audits of our app and infrastructure to provide transparency and improve our security practices.
Safe jurisdiction
The laws relevant to us as a VPN provider based in Sweden make our location a safe place for us and your privacy.
Combats traffic analysis
Even if you encrypt your traffic with a VPN, there is still a risk that your traffic can be analyzed. That's why we've developed DAITA (Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis).
Quantum-resistant VPN tunnels
You can choose quantum resistant VPN tunnels on all our supported platforms. In case future quantum computers succeed in breaking today’s encryption.
DNS queries through encrypted tunnel
When you use Mullvad VPN, all your DNS queries (where website addresses are converted to IP addresses) will pass through the encrypted VPN tunnel.
Multihop
With our multihop feature you can route your traffic through two or more servers in different locations and separate jurisdictions.
Circumvent censorship
Our obfuscation methods are helping people to bypass firewalls and censorship in countries that tries to block VPN.
Mullvad VPN defends against AI-guided traffic analysis
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN, advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we have developed DAITA – a feature available in our VPN app.
Learn more about DAITAFAQ
You have a question. That’s good, you should always want to learn more about privacy. We’ve gathered a few things you might be wondering here. If you don’t find your answer, let us know!