Name: Mullvad review (2026): price, no-logs audits and track record
Item: Mullvad
Author: GetVPN.now

Mullvad review

Privacy VPN, Sweden · Mullvad VPN AB · Last checked November 2026

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Good for

People who want to give away as little as possible: an account number instead of an email, cash payments and one flat price.

Skip it if

You want a free plan, port forwarding, OpenVPN, streaming-focused servers or a refund on a cash or crypto payment.

Visit Mullvad

Mullvad, run by Mullvad VPN AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, is built around collecting almost nothing. You don't give an email or username: you get a random account number. You can pay by card, crypto or cash in an envelope. And there is one price, €5 a month, the same whether you pay for a month or a year, with no sales.

Open padlock with combination lock on keyboard — Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash

Its no-logs claim has had a real test. In April 2023 Swedish police arrived at its office with a search warrant for computers holding customer data; Mullvad says there was none and the officers left with nothing. It publishes security audits of its servers (Cure53, 2024), its account and payment backend (X41 D-Sec, January 2026) and its web app, though none is titled as a no-logs verification in the way Proton's or NordVPN's are.

The trade-offs are deliberate. Mullvad removed port forwarding in 2023 over abuse, and dropped OpenVPN in January 2026, so it is WireGuard only, with several obfuscation modes for blocked networks. Its refund window is 14 days, not 30, and cash or crypto payments aren't refundable. For privacy first, it is hard to beat; for torrenting with open ports or for streaming, look at our torrenting and streaming guides instead.

The facts

Price & refund

€5 a month including VAT as listed on Nov 12, 2026 (about $5.55), the same rate whether you pay for a month, a year or longer; crypto payments get a 10% discount and Mullvad says it never runs sales. There is a 14-day money-back guarantee from the payment date; cash and crypto payments aren't refunded, and App Store or reseller purchases are refunded by the store or reseller.^[1]^[2]

Owner & jurisdiction

Mullvad VPN AB is a Swedish company based in Gothenburg. In July 2026 Mullvad said a donation by one of its owners to a Swedish political party was private, and that Mullvad and its parent and sister companies were not involved.^[2]^[3]

No-logs audits

Cure53 audited one OpenVPN and one WireGuard staging server, configured like production, plus the deployment code in June 2024, finding one medium and one low issue (both fixed) and no way to compromise users' anonymity; it is a security audit, not a report titled as a no-logs check. X41 D-Sec reviewed the account and payment backend source code in late 2025 (two low, three medium findings; Mullvad says none exposed user data). Leviathan Security assessed the Android app in 2026 under the App Defense Alliance MASA scheme; Mullvad fixed four minor findings.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Breaches & incidents

On April 18, 2023 Swedish police came to Mullvad's Gothenburg office with a search warrant to seize computers with customer data; Mullvad says no such data existed and they left with nothing. Mullvad dropped port forwarding in May 2023, citing abuse, and removed existing ports on July 1, 2023.^[7]^[8]

Protocols & free plan

WireGuard only: Mullvad removed OpenVPN from its apps in late 2025 and took its last OpenVPN servers down on or before January 15, 2026. Obfuscation options include Shadowsocks, UDP-over-TCP, QUIC and Lightweight WireGuard Obfuscation (LWO). No port forwarding, and no free tier: every plan length costs €5 a month.^[9]^[1]

Mullvad review

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