NymVPN review: score, privacy and prices
4.97
out of 10#10 of 377 in the main ranking
Decentralised (dVPN) median 2.9
- Decentralised (dVPN)
- Jurisdiction:Switzerland, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Owner:Nym Technologies SA
- Data completeness93%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Monero payments
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols7.1 vs 2.9
- Platforms and support6.2 vs 3.6
- Privacy and jurisdiction5.0 vs 2.7
Weakest against its segment
- Censorship bypass3.3 vs 2.4
- Network and streaming3.0 vs 1.9
- Price and fair terms4.1 vs 2.8
- Trial needs a card
- 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.
NymVPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.75.0
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 2.97.1
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 2.84.1
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 2.43.3
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 1.93.0
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 3.66.2
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
NymVPN pricing
Everything NymVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about NymVPN, 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
- Nym Technologies SA
- Registered in
- Switzerland
- Address
- place Numa-Droz 2, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland (CHE-367.426.629)
- Related brands
- Nym network
- $NYM token
- Nyx blockchain
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- EN; RU (locale redirect seen)
- Currencies on the site
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- CHF
- Prices depend on country
- Yes currency by location/payment method
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- NymVPN (single tier)
- Billing terms
- 1 month
- 6 months
- 1 year (official pricing page)
- Cheapest price a month
- $4.00
- Monthly plan
- €7.00 (official, browser EUR geo); review: $14.99
- 1-year plan, total
- $48.00
- 1-year plan, a month
- $4.00
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Auto-renews unless cancelled before renewal date; trial converts at current pricing
- VAT included
- No Additional taxes may apply
- Family plan
- No
- Prices seen from other countries
- 1m €7.00
- 6m €5.25/mo (€31.50, -25%)
- 12m €3.50/mo (€42.00, -50%)
- up to 75% off when paying with $NYM
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- Yes included (2-hop dVPN; 5-hop mixnet)
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- ad blocker (Brave-powered) included
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- 50% (1y, crossed-out $96); up to 70% off plans
- Discount compared with
- crossed-out $96.00
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Discount for crypto payment
- Yes up to 75% off with $NYM
- Bonus months
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 10
- Data limit
- fair use 2 TB/user/month
- Speed limit
- No
- Country restrictions
- prohibited where VPN use is banned/heavily restricted; sanctions compliance
- Prohibited by the terms
- 17 categories: illegal activity, unauthorized access, malware, fraud, scraping without consent, CSAM
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- cards (Stripe)
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- GNU Taler
- cash
- BTC
- BTC-LN
- L-BTC
- L-USDT
- ADA
- ETH tokens
- BNB tokens
- LTC
- LTC-MWEB
- XMR
- ZEC
- DASH
- USDT-TRON
- $NYM
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- No
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Coins accepted
- BTC
- BTC-LN
- L-BTC
- ADA
- ETH
- BNB
- LTC
- LTC-MWEB
- XMR
- ZEC
- DASH
- USDT
- NYM
- Cash
- Yes
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Local payment methods
- GNU Taler
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- How to cancel
- cancel before renewal date
- Email needed to sign up
- No
- Phone needed to sign up
- No
- Account-number login
- Yes 24-word passphrase
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
- Refund conditions
- pro-rata refunds
- Stripe card refunds 5-10 business days
- $NYM refunds near-instant
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 7 days
- Where the trial is offered
- select plans with card (no crypto)
- Trial limits
- card required; converts to paid unless cancelled
- Instead of a trial
- pro-rata refund
- Card needed for the trial
- Yes
Server locations
- Countries
- 70+
- Servers
- 800+ nodes (independently operated)
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- No independent node operators
- 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 residential IP support claimed
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Yes 2-hop dVPN; 5-hop mixnet
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard2-hop dVPN mode✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNym mixnet (Sphinx packet format, cover traffic)✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWG(Fast Mode uses AmneziaWG) (review)✓ Yes
- Other protocols
- Sphinx mixnet; Lewes Protocol (PQ key exchange)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Yes Lewes Protocol PQ key exchange, phase 1, Apr 2026
- Manual configuration files
- No
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/nymtech
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Partial censorship resistance listed (home says in development)
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Yes Telegram community; Matrix; Discord
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes (all desktop/iOS; Windows on by default; Android uses system always-on) (review)
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes blog: split tunneling with geo-exclusion
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes Brave-powered ad blocker
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Yes Cure53 2024 (apps, VPN, infra, crypto); Oak Security 2023 (mixnet/vesting contracts, wallet); JP Aumasson 2021; Cryspen reviews 2023-24
- Bug bounty
- Yes vulnerability disclosure page (vdp-bbp); bounty unconfirmed
- Certifications
- none
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes Nym can't log; operators contractually bound not to log
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Data retention
- Sentry telemetry ~90 days
- accounting 10 yrs (Swiss law)
- Stripe >=5 yrs
- Shared with third parties
- node operators
- payment processors (Stripe, Apple, Google, self-hosted BTCPay)
- Sentry (opt-in)
- Zendesk
- Transparency report
- No will publish Swiss authority requests
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- complies with lawful Swiss requests, will challenge and publish them; foreign authorities not competent
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes passphrase, crypto/cash
- GDPR / data protection officer
- no DPO named; legal@nym.com (FADP)
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-01-28
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✓ No
- IP at sign-up✓ No
- Connection IP✓ No
- Session timesopt-in stats: session duration✕ Yes
- Device infoopt-in (OS, app version)✕ Yes
- App analyticsopt-in, off by default (custom collector via tunnel)✕ Yes
- Crash reportsopt-in, off by default (Sentry)✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ 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
- No
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Fastest protocol (claimed)
- WireGuard 2-hop (Fast mode)
- Netflix
- No
- BBC iPlayer
- No
- Disney+
- No
- Prime Video
- No
- DAZN
- No
- beIN Sports
- No
- Shahid
- No
- OSN+
- No
- Gaming features
- No
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Yes (website chatbot can hand over to human) (review)
- Live chat 24/7
- No (email tickets weekdays 01:00-17:00 GMT) (review)
- Email / tickets
- Yes support.nym.com, Zendesk
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Yes community
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Yes Discord, forum.nym.com, Matrix
- Help articles
- Yes support.nym.com, docs
- Server status page
- Yes status.nymtech.net
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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App Store
3.52 of 5, smoothed
From 35 collected reviews (raw average 3.49; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 7.
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Google Play
3.60 of 5, smoothed
From 100 collected reviews (raw average 3.45; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.45 from 20.
The company replied to 30 of 34 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 3.77 (39 ratings); Google Play 3.4 (419 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
40 Reddit and forum threads mention NymVPN (titles and search snippets only).
Questions about NymVPN
Answers built from what NymVPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
NymVPN refund policy: how to ask for your money back
NymVPN does not publish a refund window in what we read. Conditions: pro-rata refunds; Stripe card refunds 5-10 business days; $NYM refunds near-instant
Refund terms
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Yes
- Free trial
- 7
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://nymvpn.com
- Pages checked
- https://nymvpn.com (WebFetch robots-disallowed); https://nym.com/; https://nym.com/pricing; https://nym.com/vpn-terms; https://nym.com/trust-center/independently-audited; https://nym.com/vpn-privacy-statement (browser, RU locale)
- Other sources used
- price_1m/terms/browser prices/adblock: https://nym.com/pricing; kill_switch/live_chat/live_chat_247/amneziawg/stealth_mode/forum/price_24m review/protocol list: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/nymvpn-review
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