Mullvad

About Mullvad

Mullvad is a VPN service run by Amagicom AB, based in Sweden — a jurisdiction that matters for how you read everything else here. Sweden is a member of the 14 Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement, which is often flagged as a privacy concern. Mullvad's counterweight is architectural rather than geographic: the service is built so there is as little to hand over as possible. We rate it Tier 3 on jurisdiction, with an overall Scout Score of 89 and a privacy sub-score of 99.

What sets Mullvad apart is its account model. There is no email required to sign up, and accounts are anonymous numbers rather than identities tied to you. On the documentation side, Mullvad operates a no-logs policy and — importantly — that stance has been independently audited rather than merely asserted. It also ships a kill switch and offers a 30-day money-back window. Taken together, these are the reasons the privacy score sits near the ceiling: the design and the audit trail line up with the marketing, which is not something every provider can claim.

A note on what we did not do: we do not run a lab, so we publish no speed benchmarks or throughput figures of our own. Where you see a number here, it comes from our documented-evidence scoring methodology, not from in-house testing. If speed is your deciding factor, treat that as unverified until you find attributed third-party measurements.

Pricing is refreshingly flat. The verified plans are a 1-Month at $5.00/mo (billed $5.00), a 1-Year at $5.00/mo (billed $60.00), and a 1-Decade option at $5.00/mo (billed $600.00). Every tier renews at the same $5.00/mo — there is no loss-leader intro rate that balloons later, which is the honest exception in this market.

Who it fits: privacy maximalists who want anonymous signup, an audited no-logs record, and predictable pricing. Who should skip it: anyone whose main goal is streaming, since Mullvad offers no streaming optimization, and anyone who considers the Swedish 14 Eyes jurisdiction a dealbreaker regardless of the architecture behind it.

Profile by Tomas, Scout VPN Team — built from documented evidence.