SwissVPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#377 of 377 in the main ranking
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:Switzerland, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Owner:Monzoon Networks AG
- Data completeness93%
- Checked2026-10-15
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
- Platforms and support2.9 vs 4.3
- Security and protocols0.0 vs 2.1
Weakest against its segment
- Price and fair terms0.7 vs 3.5
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.7
- Network and streaming0.7 vs 3.1
- Stores session times
- Stores connection IP addresses
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Consumer VPN services in the main ranking (233 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
SwissVPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.70.0
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 2.10.0
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 3.50.7
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 0.50.5
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 3.10.7
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 4.32.9
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
SwissVPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.42 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, SwissVPN renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep SwissVPN running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 CHF = €1.07). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SwissVPN, 1 mo | €6.42 | €77.04at the current price | €154.08at the current price | €231.12at the current price |
Compare SwissVPN’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SwissVPN | 1 mo | 6.00 CHF | 6.00 CHF | €6.42 |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- No test credentials connect only to swissvpn.net
- Auto-renewal
- No
- Payment methods
- Visa; Mastercard; Amex; PayPal; PostFinance eFinance; PostFinance Card; Twint
- Renewal note
- No subscription; manual extension; automatic renewal optional add-on
Everything SwissVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about SwissVPN, 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
- Monzoon Networks AG
- Registered in
- Switzerland
- Address
- Spinnerei-Lettenstrasse 2, 8192 Zweidlen/ZH, Switzerland
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- DE
- FR
- EN
- TR
- AR
- Currencies on the site
- CHF (approx USD/EUR shown)
- Prices depend on country
- No
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- SwissVPN (single plan)
- Billing terms
- 1 month; any duration selectable on purchase
- Cheapest price a month
- 6.00 CHF
- Monthly plan
- 6.00 CHF
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Yes subscription; manual extension; automatic renewal optional add-on
- Family plan
- No
- Prices seen from other countries
- CHF 6.– for 1 month (approx USD 7.20 / EUR 6.44); static IP from CHF 10/mo (min 6 months)
- Dedicated IP add-on
- Yes static IP from CHF 10/mo (min 6 months; signed contract)
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- firewall
- speed upgrade
- additional device connections
- auto-renewal
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 1 by default; option for max 3 simultaneous connections (unlimited configured devices)
- Data limit
- none
- Speed limit
- 15000/5000 kbit/s default; Speed Upgrade 30000/10000 kbit/s (paid option)
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Visa
- Mastercard
- Amex
- PayPal
- PostFinance eFinance
- PostFinance Card
- Twint
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- No
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Coins accepted
- No
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Local payment methods
- PostFinance; Twint
- Auto-renewal by default
- No
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- No test credentials connect only to swissvpn.net
- Instead of a trial
- public test account (PPTP/L2TP/SSTP) reaching only www.swissvpn.net; free Speed Boost 5x/month for 3h
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 1
- Servers
- Not stated
- Cities
- 1
1 country listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 1
- Server countries, as published
- Switzerland (Zurich)
- Middle East and North Africa
- No
- Virtual locations
- No
- Own servers
- Yes own Zurich DC, 45 Gbit/s backend
- Port speed
- 45 Gbit/s backend
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Partial dual-stack, not on all protocols
- Dedicated IP
- Yes optional
- Static IP
- Yes optional public Swiss IP, no NAT
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Not stated
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✕ No
- OpenVPN✓ Yes
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecL2TP/IPsecYes
- SSTPSSL VPNYes
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- PPTP✕ Yes
- Encryption
- OpenVPN: TLS + Blowfish 168-bit
- SSTP: AES/RC4 128
- L2TP/IPsec: AES/SHA1 128 + DH
- PPTP: MPPE 128 / MS-CHAPv2
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Partial L2TP/IPsec phase 2 with PFS
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes manual setup instructions
- Open-source apps
- No
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- No OpenVPN/SSTP over TCP 443 only
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- No FAQ recommends separate router/firewall to force VPN-only traffic
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- No
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Data retention
- Identifiers and connection info kept 6 months per Swiss law (BÜPF), then deleted
- Shared with third parties
- Law enforcement on court order
- payment processors
- Google tools on Monzoon sites
- Trackers on the website
- Google Analytics/Ads/Tag Manager (on monzoon.net sites)
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- Data disclosed only on court order / statutory requirement
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- GDPR / data protection officer
- Yes (byte legal AG, Zurich; EU rep Monzoon Networks (Deutschland) GmbH)
- Privacy policy updated
- 2024-05-06
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.
- Connection IPas ISP✕ Yes
- Session timesconnection info if unavoidable✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windowsmanual✓ Yes
- macOSmanual✓ Yes
- Linuxvia OpenVPN/L2TP/PPTP (manual)✓ Yes
- iOSmanual✓ Yes
- Androidmanual✓ 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
- Not stated
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
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Email / tickets
- Yes swissvpn@monzoon.net; contact form
- Phone
- No FAQ: no phone support for SwissVPN
- Telegram
- No
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- Mastodon @swissvpn
- Support languages
- DE; EN (help form: German or English)
- Help articles
- Yes setup instructions
- Server status page
- Not stated
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
3.81 of 5, smoothed
From 96 collected reviews (raw average 3.96; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 4.36 from 11.
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Google Play
3.42 of 5, smoothed
From 21 collected reviews (raw average 2.29; all VPNs 3.90).
The company replied to 0 of 14 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.64 (2227 ratings); Google Play 2.6.
Reviews per month, last 12 months
46 Reddit and forum threads mention SwissVPN (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.
App Store · 5★ · 13 Oct 2026 · GB
I love Swiss VPN
App Store · 5★ · 12 Oct 2026 · US
I love Swiss VPN
App Store · 5★ · 11 Oct 2026 · US
Fatima
Google Play · 1★ · 24 Mar 2025
Ich habe Swiss VPN auf meinem Laptop und es funktioniert ohne Probleme, doch auf dem handy kann ich mich unterwegs nicht einloggen leider ist der support total…
Google Play · 5★ · 02 Feb 2025
funktioniert perfekt zu günstigem Preis!
Google Play · 4★ · 18 Oct 2024
Which country owns this vpn
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about SwissVPN
Answers built from what SwissVPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is SwissVPN safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 0.0/10 and security 0.0/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. Independent no-logs audit: ✕ No.
In 10 seconds
- Stores connection IP
- Stores session times
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- Switzerland, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Legal entity
- Monzoon Networks AG
- No-logs policy
- No
- Data retention
- Identifiers and connection info kept 6 months per Swiss law (BÜPF), then deleted
- Shared with third parties
- Law enforcement on court order; payment processors; Google tools on Monzoon sites
- Trackers on the website
- Google Analytics/Ads/Tag Manager (on monzoon.net sites)
Security
- Kill switch
- No
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Encryption
- OpenVPN: TLS + Blowfish 168-bit; SSTP: AES/RC4 128; L2TP/IPsec: AES/SHA1 128 + DH; PPTP: MPPE 128 / MS-CHAPv2
- Open-source apps
- No
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
Related rankings
SwissVPN not working? Common causes and what to check
3 things to check, built from what SwissVPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Switch protocol in the app: SwissVPN lists OpenVPN, L2TP/IPsec, SSTP.
Try a manual configuration (manual setup instructions).
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Telegram
- No
- Yes swissvpn@monzoon.net; contact form
If it is blocked where you are
Who owns SwissVPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
SwissVPN is run by Monzoon Networks AG, registered in Switzerland; parent company: Monzoon Networks AG.
Company
- Registered in
- Switzerland
- Address
- Spinnerei-Lettenstrasse 2, 8192 Zweidlen/ZH, Switzerland
- Group
- Monzoon Networks VPN brands
Other brands of the same group
- Monzoon1.40
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
SwissVPN appears on 35 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Swiss VPNs#9 of 9
- No auto-renewal#19 of 19
- SSTP#21 of 22
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes with a dedicated IP#27 of 27
- OpenVPN + dedicated IP#50 of 50
- VPNs with a static IP#50 of 50
- VPNs in Turkish#51 of 51
- Linux VPNs with a dedicated IP#52 of 52
- VPNs in Arabic#57 of 59
- L2TP/IPsec#67 of 67
- VPNs with a dedicated IP#71 of 71
- VPNs in German#85 of 87
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- VPNs in French#86 of 87
- VPN servers in Switzerland#91 of 91
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes with OpenVPN support#100 of 101
- Manual config files#118 of 118
- Linux VPNs with OpenVPN#125 of 125
- All platforms#170 of 170
- Windows VPNs with OpenVPN#189 of 190
- Outside 14 Eyes#197 of 204
- Mac VPNs with OpenVPN#198 of 198
- VPNs for Linux#201 of 203
- OpenVPN VPNs for iPhone#206 of 207
- Pay with PayPal#210 of 211
- OpenVPN VPNs for Android#215 of 219
- Outside 5 Eyes#230 of 237
- OpenVPN#236 of 242
- VPNs for Windows#346 of 357
- VPNs for Mac#357 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#388 of 411
- VPNs for Android#407 of 451
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
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Owner and jurisdiction
Closed services SwissVPN replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://swissvpn.net
- Pages checked
- https://swissvpn.net/; https://swissvpn.net/buy.php; https://global.monzoon.net/public/gdpr/en/
- Other sources used
- all fields: https://swissvpn.net/help.php; price: https://swissvpn.net/buy.php
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_main | 371 | 370 |
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 498 | 497 |