Mysterium Dark review: score, privacy and prices
3.47
out of 10#73 of 377 in the main ranking
Decentralised (dVPN) median 2.9
- Decentralised (dVPN)
- Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness80%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols5.7 vs 2.9
- Platforms and support5.7 vs 3.6
- Network and streaming3.2 vs 1.9
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction2.3 vs 2.7
- Price and fair terms2.6 vs 2.8
- Censorship bypass2.4 vs 2.4
- Stores session times
- Auto-renewal on by default
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Decentralised (dVPN) services in the main ranking (15 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Mysterium Darksegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.72.3
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 2.95.7
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 2.82.6
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 2.42.4
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 1.93.2
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.65.7
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
Mysterium Dark pricing
Mysterium Dark does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: No Dark: pay-per-use rent by the minute; Mysterium VPN blog: no free tier, 30-day money-back. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 1 mo | 1 mo |
| Plus | 1 mo | 1 mo |
| Pro | 1 mo | 1 mo |
| Basic | 12 mo | 12 mo |
| Plus | 12 mo | 12 mo |
| Pro | 12 mo | 12 mo |
| Basic | 24 mo | 24 mo |
| Plus | 24 mo | 24 mo |
| Pro | 24 mo | 24 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 on 2-year plans; 7 on monthly/1-year (pricing page); ToS: full refund within 7 days, EU 14-day withdrawal
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Yes
- How to cancel
- email help@mysteriumvpn.com
- Payment methods
- cryptocurrency only
- VAT
- No VAT may apply
- Renewal note
- Auto-renews for same term and plan (ToS); renewal price not stated
Everything Mysterium Dark publishes
Every fact we collected about Mysterium Dark, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Mysterium Network
- Registered in
- LT (UAB company form)
- Related brands
- MysteriumVPN (mysteriumvpn.com); mystnodes.com
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- Not stated
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Basic
- Plus
- Pro
- Billing terms
- 1m
- 12m
- 24m
- Cheapest price a month
- 2.29
- Monthly plan
- 12.99
- 1-year plan, total
- 40.68
- 1-year plan, a month
- 3.39
- 2-year plan, total
- 54.94
- 2-year plan, a month
- 2.29
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- Auto-renews for same term and plan (ToS); renewal price not stated
- VAT included
- No VAT may apply
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD shown: Basic 1m $12.99, 12m $3.39/mo ($40.68), 24m $2.49/mo ($59.77)
- Plus 1m $14.99, 12m $3.49/mo ($41.83), 24m $2.29/mo ($54.94)
- Pro 1m $19.99, 12m $6.19/mo ($74.27), 24m $3.89/mo ($93.37)
- VAT may apply
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- up to 85% (Black Friday deal banner)
- Sale running when checked
- Black Friday Deal 85% off
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- Yes
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 6 Basic / 10 Plus / 15 Pro
Free plan
- Free plan
- No Dark: pay-per-use rent by the minute; Mysterium VPN blog: no free tier, 30-day money-back
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- cryptocurrency only
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- How to cancel
- email help@mysteriumvpn.com
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30 on 2-year plans
- 7 on monthly/1-year (pricing page)
- ToS: full refund within 7 days, EU 14-day withdrawal
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 57 (Basic) / 108 (Plus, Pro)
- Servers
- 3,800+ (Basic) / 11,000+ (Plus, Pro)
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- No community P2P nodes
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- Yes 7,500+ residential IPs, Plus/Pro
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Yes Double VPN
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✓ Yes
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Encryption
- ChaCha20-Poly1305; BLAKE2
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Yes
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/mysterium-vpn-mobile
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Yes claims unblocked internet
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Yes Telegram announcement channel; F-Droid
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes
- DNS leak protection
- Yes
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes malware blocker, Plus/Pro
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes no traffic logs, claim
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Email✕ Yes
- Connection IP(claim); server logs with IP for security/debugging, said anonymized✓ No
- Session timessession timestamps✕ Yes
- Bandwidthbandwidth usage volumes✕ Yes
- Crash reportsno unique identifiers✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linuxhelp center Linux app✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- AndroidAndroid 7.0+✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Chrome
- Brave
- Opera
- Opera GX
- Google Play rating
- 3.7 (9.18K reviews)
- Google Play installs
- 1M+
- Last app update
- 2026-09-26
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Yes (only support option; often not live, replies up to a day) (review)
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes help@mysteriumvpn.com
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Yes announcement channel
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Discord; Reddit
- Help articles
- Yes ~100+ help center articles
- Server status page
- Yes status.mysteriumvpn.com
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Not stated
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Not stated
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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Google Play
2.84 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 2.71; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 2.21 from 14.
The company replied to 3 of 220 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Google Play 3.8 (9.18K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
34 Reddit and forum threads mention Mysterium Dark (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
Google Play · 1★ · 02 Oct 2026
Every time i try to connect it's not connecting and taking too much time to get connected.
Google Play · 1★ · 30 Sep 2026
i paid for this app today and it does not happen,I hate it
Google Play · 1★ · 14 Sep 2026
the app services are extremely too poor
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about Mysterium Dark
Answers built from what Mysterium Dark publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is Mysterium Dark safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 2.3/10 and security 5.7/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.9). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Open-source apps
- Kill switch
- Stores session times
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- Not stated
- Legal entity
- Mysterium Network
- No-logs policy
- Yes no traffic logs, claim
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes
- Encryption
- ChaCha20-Poly1305; BLAKE2
- Open-source apps
- https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/mysterium-vpn-mobile
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
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Mysterium Dark not working? Common causes and what to check
6 things to check, built from what Mysterium Dark publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Check the provider’s status page for an outage (status.mysteriumvpn.com).
Switch protocol in the app: Mysterium Dark lists WireGuard, OpenVPN.
If the network blocks VPNs, turn on obfuscation (claims unblocked internet).
Update the app: the last update we saw is dated 2026-09-26.
Contact support: live chat, Telegram, email.
If the website is blocked too, use the mirror or channel (Telegram announcement channel; F-Droid).
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- Yes (only support option; often not live, replies up to a day) (review)
- Telegram
- announcement channel
- Mirrors or channel
- Telegram announcement channel; F-Droid
- Yes help@mysteriumvpn.com
- Status page
- Yes status.mysteriumvpn.com
If it is blocked where you are
Troubleshooting of similar VPNs
Mysterium Dark refund policy: how to ask for your money back
Mysterium Dark refund window: 30 on 2-year plans; 7 on monthly/1-year (pricing page); ToS: full refund within 7 days, EU 14-day withdrawal.
Refund terms
- Conditions
- Not stated
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
Try before paying
Refund policies of similar VPNs
How to cancel Mysterium Dark and turn off auto-renewal
How Mysterium Dark says you cancel: email help@mysteriumvpn.com. Auto-renewal by default: yes.
Cancellation and renewal
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- Reminder before renewal
- Not stated
- Renewal note
- Auto-renews for same term and plan (ToS); renewal price not stated
- Bought in App Store or Google Play
- cancel in the store’s subscription settings
Without auto-renewal or price hikes
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Mysterium Dark coupons and discounts: official prices and promo terms
Mysterium Dark publishes no promo code on its own site in what we read, so we list none. We never invent codes or copy them from coupon sites; below are the official prices.
Discounts on the official site
- Promo codes
- Not stated
- Sale running when checked
- Black Friday Deal 85% off
- Discount shown
- up to 85% (Black Friday deal banner)
- Checked
- 2026-10-15
Who owns Mysterium Dark? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
Mysterium Dark is run by Mysterium Network, registered in LT (UAB company form).
Company
- Related brands
- MysteriumVPN (mysteriumvpn.com); mystnodes.com
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://f-droid.org/packages/network.mysterium.vpn/
- Other sources used
- plans/prices/devices/servers/countries/protocols/money_back/payment/platforms/affiliate: https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/vpn-pricing; kill_switch/PFS: https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/; collects_*: https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/privacy-policy-vpn; renewal/refund/entity/cancel: https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/terms-conditions-vpn; linux/status/email: https://help.mysteriumvpn.com/en; play_rating/play_installs/free_tier (pay-per-use, crypto, WireGuard; developer NetSys Inc.): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=network.mysterium.vpn; free_tier (no free tier): https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/blog/mysterium-vpn-review; live_chat: https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/mysterium-vpn/ (snippet)
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