Quite honestly at $5.66/ month I fail to see how one justifies the cost. It's funny how all the folks in the reddit subs are Mullvad this and Mullvad that. VPNs are not meant to hide criminal activities but to combat online tracking (DNS requests and IP logging by websites) or bypass geo-restrictions.Īs a funny comparison, Mullvad is like vegan bacon while Torguard is regular bacon to me 😄 There are news that tell Torguard was attacked several times and no customer data was stolen AFAIK. As for server security we can only assume that the company is competent. There are only some minor differences in default configuration options. There is constant fight over customers in VPN market so every company does what it can to win.įrom the protocol security point of view, VPN software is open source so every provider uses the same OpenVPN/Wireguard/IKEv2(StrongSwan) implementation.

There are also people trying to convince you into clicking their affiliate links to make some easy buck (but Mullvad has no affiliate program). People advocating mullvad on reddit are either hidden company accounts or just normal users trying to solidify their decision ( cognitive dissonance effect). It's easy to fall into the extreme privacy rabbit hole (trying to over-control personal privacy). I suspect that in the end that compounds to the price difference.Īnother interesting fact is that both Mullvad and Torguard rent servers at the same datacenter/provider in my country. Mullvad is Swedish company while Torguard is from USA (Florida) - Sweden has higher taxes. I suspect Mullvad uses newer hardware as many servers are 10Gbit now (but both Mullvad and Torguard saturate my 100/30Mbit internet line at any time of the day, so it's up to what you need). Mullvad has a bigger software dev team as the app is really polished, but is has far less options than Torguard. Regular audits probably cost thousands of dollars yearly. Mullvad supports activism (gives money to various pro privacy groups) as a different marketing strategy to attract users. Mullvad is run more like a ideologically conscious company while Torguard is more practical. When I compare them I see the major difference in how the company is run. I search the web from time to time to check if there are no news.įor the reference I live in europe and tried Mullvad in the past. By public pressure they know if that was to happen most customers will stop using the service. AFAIK up to date there were no news of Torguard logging or leaking user data.

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