IPVanish Review 2020

During our search for the best VPN provider that can help you protect your privacy by pulling a veil over your online identity, we stumbled upon IPVanish. IPVanish has a pretty suggestive name, don’t you think?

To promote their services, most services only have VPN in their names, but this one also gives you a bit of the inside scoop: it can make your IP vanish! Well, not really, but it can hide it pretty well if the need arises.

As you probably already know, we’re going to crack down on this VPN in our quest to try to understand how this service works, the way it can benefit you whenever you don’t want your tracks to be visible, and exactly how reliable it is.

This review might feel a bit long and difficult to go through in its entirety since it holds so many pieces of information (useful ones, nonetheless). Still, we assure you that we made huge efforts to try and keep it as short as possible without affecting the quality of the content.

But that doesn’t solve the length issue, now does it? We thought you were going to say that. So, in advance, we’ve prepared this awesome table of contents that will help you skip to the parts that interest you most without us having to remove massive amounts of information. It’s a win-win situation, right?

• Background check
• In the eye of the storm
• Terms of service analysis
• Privacy Policy rundown
• IPVanish – a few words
• Encryption –  how it’s made
• Bad news for a bunch of countries
• Creating an account
• Free SugarSync storage with every subscription plan
• Getting to the dashboard
• Downloading IPVanish
• Checking the installer for malware
• Installation and setup
• Effectively using the app
• Pick a server or let IPVanish pick one for you
• Intuitive configuration section
• List of servers
• Services unlocked
• TOR and torrenting support
• Running IPVanish in the background while gaming
• Does IPVanish work in China?
• Customer support
• Security test results
• Speed test results
• Plans and payment methods
• A business VPN solution is available as well
• Conclusion

Background check

We shall begin with a little background information regarding the company and a bunch of its policy details. No VPN can escape our radar (nor do they need to if they’re clean) since whenever it comes to providing you with 100% transparent content, we try to do our best to deliver top-tier reviews and analysis results.

Okay, first things first, IPVanish has been developed by Mudhook Media Inc. back in 2012. Mudhook Media Inc. was a subsidiary of Highwinds Network Group in Orlando, Florida. In the beginning, IPVanish only provided its end users with as little as 32 servers and a Windows-based client. After a while, it grew to include routers, Linux, Chromebook, Windows Mobile, Fire TV, Android, iOS, and macOS among the devices that supported it.

Another fact worth mentioning is that the VPN has ownership and full control over a private optical fiber network of tier-1 servers. It also owns around 90% of its POPs (Points Of Presence), where they control the hardware and data center. Oh, and don’t forget that the U.S.A. is not only a member of the 5, 9, 14 Eyes Alliances, it’s also one of the founding members.

In the eye of the storm

A while ago, IPVanish stirred a bit of controversy when, during a trial, the company handed over a bunch of personal information about one of their customers, who was suspected of sharing child pornography on an IRC network.

The information they shared with the Homeland Security (HSI) back in 2016 enabled the law enforcers to identify their culprit since the data they leaked was pretty extensive. It consisted of the customer’s real name, his email address, the details of its account and VPN subscription, his real IP address, but also date and time logs for his online activity (whenever he connected and disconnected to and from the IRC network).

IPVanish clearly stated that no such data would be logged on their watch (excerpts grabbed from their privacy policy). So, the fact that the customer’s real IP address, as well as his IRC network connection timestamps, were logged heavily contradicts their policy and puts their trust in jeopardy.

However, in 2017, the company, along with the service it provided (IPVanish), was acquired by StackPath. Lance Crosby (founder and CEO) claimed that, in 2017, at the time of the acquisition, there were no logs or logging systems available, and there wasn’t any intention (whether previous, current, or future) to start recording them. The story was pretty popular on the “r/privacy” subreddit on Reddit, where the court documents were posted for Redditors to see.

Lastly, the IPVanish brand was acquired yet again in 2019, when J2 Global bought the service and incorporated it into their NetProtect brand. J2 Global also owns services like Ookla Speedtest and SugarSync, and it also has subsidiaries like IGN, Mashable, PCMag, and Geek.com. Besides IPVanish, the NetProtect brand also includes a few other VPN services: SaferVPN, StrongVPN, and Encrypt.me.

Terms of service analysis

Granted, IPVanish comes with a nicely-organized Terms of Service documentation, one that breaks the ice with a full-fledged table of content, so that you can skip to the parts that you feel interested you most. Kind of like how we do it around here.

However, not knowing where to look is a whole other issue that you’ll be facing when dealing with lengthy policies, agreements, and the sorts, so we’ll lend you a guiding hand. How? By giving the full document a good, thorough read ourselves, extracting its essentials and putting them on this very page, in this very section.

• The effective date of these terms is set to April 15, 2014;
• If you access the site and/or use the IPVanish services, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions in the agreement;
• If you don’t agree with any or all of the terms, you need to stop using the service and/or visit the website immediately;
• IPVanish might modify the content of the agreement at any given time and (most importantly) without prior notice, so it’s your responsibility to check if any modifications have occurred in the meantime;
• If by chance, IPVanish has modified their agreement, and you keep on using their service or visiting their website, it will be seen as your acceptance of and agreement with the newly-revised agreement;
• The modifications will only become effective upon them being posted on the website, and any major modification will be announced via email or in-service notifications;
• You should understand that IPVanish is a VPN service that includes using servers, routers, IP addresses, transport, and other protocols and/or equipment that transmits information over its network;
• You are not allowed to use the services if you’re unable to form a binding, legal agreement with IPVanish, or if you’re under 18 years;
• Both your use and access of the service are your responsibility;
• You can share the same IPVanish membership with family members that live in the same household, and reside at the same address, given that IPVanish allows you to have up to 10 connections simultaneously;
• You agree that all the information that you submit to IPVanish is true, accurate, complete and current and that you’ll promptly notify IPVanish if any personal detail changes;
• Although you can browse the IPVanish website without having to provide any personal information about yourself, using the service requires that you register for an account, which in turn requires you to provide some personally-identifiable information;
• You are offered a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to use IPVanish, so you don’t have any right over the IPVanish service other than using it for your personal, non-commercial purpose;
• You’re not allowed to modify IPVanish’s software in any way, create derivative works of it, sub-license the service, or even charge someone else to use it;
• IPVanish’s service may not be consistent across all platforms, and the performance of the IPVanish software may vary, depending on your equipment (computer, router, network scheme);
• Using IPVanish might require updates and modifications from time to time, and you need to agree to receive them so that the service can operate as it should;
• You are not allowed to engage in any form of unwanted communication while connected to IPVanish, including but not limited to bulk email, spam, forging headers, pyramid schemes and/or chain letters;
• IPVanish may change their prices without prior notice, and it’s your responsibility to perform regular checks on the prices, as the potentially-updated fees will be charged to your payment account automatically, at the time of the renewal;
• If you’re not satisfied with IPVanish’s services, you can request a refund, but you must do it in the first seven days after the day of purchase;
• If a payment method does not allow a refund, IPVanish will make an offer for service in lieu of a refund and will not be held liable in this situation;
• IPVanish is not liable for any loss that might arise as a direct or indirect consequence of using the IPVanish service;
• IPVanish may modify or even discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any part of the service or the entire service, at any time, and without prior notice, and will not be liable for this;
• IPVanish’s services are not to be used in countries where providing this type of service is illegal, such as Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria or Sudan;
• IPVanish is not liable for any content that you might access, receive, download or buy while using the service;
• You are not allowed to engage in any activity that is related to hacking while connected to IPVanish;
• You are not allowed to monitor or intercept data that are not intended for you without authorization;
• You are not allowed to transmit or receive questionable or illegal content such as child pornography, or material that incites to hate, body harm, defamation, harassment, and the such;
• You are not allowed to transmit or receive any material that violates any intellectual property rights;
• You are not allowed to use the IPVanish service in any unlawful manner;
• The terms and conditions of the agreement shall be governed by, and construed following the laws of the state of Florida;

So, now you know all there is to know about what you can do, but mostly what you can’t (or shouldn’t) do while you’re connected to the IPVanish service (and not only), and how to avoid the ban-hammer. It goes without saying that breaking any or all of these terms will probably end badly for you, with a suspended or terminated account, or even worse: you could face a jury in court. Our advice? Stay on the safe side.

Privacy Policy rundown

Even though IPVanish comes with a brief version of their privacy policy, we will still give the whole thing a full read and put the essentials here for you to see and understand easily. First thing’s first, the effective date of the privacy policy is December 17, 2019.

The brief version of the privacy policy is exactly as follows:

We care deeply about your privacy rights, and we will never log any traffic or usage of our VPN.
We do not sell or rent personal information to others under any circumstance.
Your data is secured and rendered anonymous whenever you are connected to our Services.
In order to provide you with our Services, we need to collect an email address and payment method to process transactions.

What data does IPVanish collect

From the website:

• Page requests;
• Your browser type;
• Your operating system;
• The bounce rate;
• The average time you spend on their site;

From the services:

• Your email address;
• Your password;
• Your name;
• Your street address;
• Your city;
• Your state;
• Your country;
• Your billing zip code;

The latest six types of data may be collected or not, depending on the payment method of your choice.

How IPVanish uses your information

From the website:

• To create your account;
• To collect payment;
• To verify your identity;
• To administer accounts;
• To monitor usage and trends;
• To manage customer relationships;
• To approach users with relevant content;
• To inform you about products, services, offers, and news;
• To respond to your requests regarding technical assistance or general help;
• To maintain internal records of support histories;

From the services:

• To create your account;
• To collect payment for the services;
• To verify your identity;
• To administer accounts;
• To understand the source and cause of app crashes;
• To develop and improve the services;

Again, IPVanish provides us with some reassurance, by stating that they don’t collect or log traffic, as you can see in the following excerpt of the Privacy Policy documentation:

As previously outlined, IPVanish does not collect or log any traffic of its Services, under any circumstances. We may, however, compile some statistical information related to app crashes.

IPVanish – a few words

Okay, we covered the company information as we promised, gave you a little inside scoop, and dug a little deeper to find that scandal back in 2016 with the data leaking incident, but now it’s time to focus on what matters the most: the actual VPN service.

You might be familiar with this from our other reviews, but VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and we’re going to keep reminding you that so that you won’t forget. IPVanish is a provider for such a private network, one that aims to cover your tracks whenever you go online and don’t want the whole wide world to know what you’re up to since most of your browsing activity can be made public at any time of day or night.

The concept of vanishing IP is strongly related to the fact that while you’re connected to this VPN, your online activity, along with any personal information, is craftily hidden behind a veil, which is the server that routes all your traffic. In this process, your real IP address is replaced by the IP address of the server you’re connected to, while any incoming and outgoing traffic is encrypted, to pull on the security knot even tighter.

Unlike many other popular VPN services, IPVanish doesn’t provide you with extensions for any browsers you might use, which might be a bit inconvenient. However, they cover pretty much all the devices that you might think of, so that’s a plus.

Encryption – how it’s made

We’ve learned that every VPN or, generally speaking, every data protection tool, must provide the end-user with means of encryption. What does encryption help you with? Imagine that someone, somehow, gets a hold of your traffic data while you’re using the VPN, but instead of seeing actual information, they see scrambled bits of data that can’t be decoded unless they had the cipher.

The encryption that IPVanish provides you with is based on the OpenVPN and IKEv2/IPsec technologies, but you could also use PPTP or L2TP protocols if you wanted to. To be even more specific, IPVanish makes use of the AES (128- or 256-bit) specs, using the SHA-256 algorithm for authenticating and the RSA-2048 one for handshakes.

You can install and use IPVanish on up to 10 devices at the same time. That’s not a bad number, considering that other premium VPN services provide its users with three simultaneously supported devices, which is almost half the number of devices supported by IPVanish.

Bad news for a bunch of countries

Although the VPN service aims to help users both erase their tracks whenever they go online and also unlock a wide variety of otherwise unavailable services, IPVanish isn’t entirely accessible to just anyone.

The company claims that since they are based in the United States, they are forbidden to do business with certain countries. These are Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. More so, even they have no embargo with the following countries, it appears that they are banning IPVanish’s services: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, China, and Kazakhstan.

However, it’s a laudable effort that they attempt to help any potential user from these countries (the second set of countries, the one that blocks their services) by providing them with a simple guide to bypass these limitations, which can be found here.

Creating an account

Obviously, you need an account to start using IPVanish on your device. As a matter of fact, we already talked about this in the “Terms of Service” section of the review. If you skipped it, we’re here to guide you, after all. Follow these steps to create an IPVanish account:

1. Head over to IPVanish;
2. Click the “Start now” button;
3. Choose a subscription plan from the menu (Save 73% on IPVanish now!);
4. Type a valid email address and a password in the corresponding fields;
5. Select the payment method of your choice;
6. Type the payment details in the fields;
7. Agree to the automatic renewal terms by checking the box;
8. Type the promotional code (if any) in the field;
9. Click the payment button;

Now you’re not only the proud owner of an IPVanish account but you just purchased yourself a subscription plan, as well, so that you can use the service at your leisure. Well, until the subscription plan expires, that is.

Chances are you’ll be automatically logged into your account after its creation and purchase of a subscription plan. Pretty cool, right?

Getting to the dashboard

After creating an account on the IPVanish website and logging into it, you’ll be briefly redirected to the landing page of your profile, which is commonly known as the dashboard. Generally, you can perform various useful actions in dashboards, mainly account-related operations, and IPVanish is no exception.

You can notice that the dashboard has been split into several categories, which can be easily accessed by clicking the designated buttons. If you want to jump to the Windows download section of the app quickly from your dashboard, you can do so by navigating to the “Server List” tab and clicking the “IPVanish VPN Software” hyperlink in the “Windows” category.

Downloading IPVanish

Retrieving the IPVanish installation package to your computer can be accomplished in a quick, effortless manner by purchasing a subscription plan, then simply navigating to the “Apps” category from anywhere on their website. The category is at the top of the page, so it’s really easy to see, and even easier to access.

If you’re accessing this link from a Windows computer, you can click the “Download” button immediately after landing on the “Apps” page, and then confirm your action by clicking the “Download Windows App” one,

However, if you need to install IPVanish on another device, simply select it from the list of devices. Doing this will result in one of the following scenarios: you will see a direct download button that will send the setup package to your device, you will receive a Google Play or an App Store link, receive an APK (for Android devices), and even access a quick tutorial for some devices (routers, Linux computers).

Fortunately, these packages can be easily accessed even if you didn’t create an IPVanish account beforehand or purchased a subscription plan. However, actually using these applications on your devices to their fullest extent requires you to register an account and purchase a plan.

Checking the installer for malware

Now that we have created an account together, explored the dashboard for a while and finally got our hands on the IPVanish installer, it’s time for us to take it to the next step. That is, of course, performing a malware check and not haphazardly installing the app on your PC.

For this step, we’re going to use VirusTotal, mainly because the wide selection of antivirus engines that perform the check at the same time (sort of) beats checking the file with a single antivirus solution.

As you can see below, at the time we performed the malware check, IPVanish’s installer executable was clean as a whistle: not even a false-positive alert was triggered by the VirusTotal service. You can check our results here, as well.

Installation and setup

Deploying the application on your Windows computer can be done in an absolutely simple and plain fashion. Honestly, not even the Privacy Policy could annoy you during setup since it’s not even displayed on the screen. You just need to accept it and proceed with the installation, which unfolds automatically.

After setting it up on your PC, you need to provide it with a username and a password so that you can use its services. There’s nothing much to set up, you fire it up, and you’re presented with a list of countries, cities, and servers to connect to, but you can also view your almost precise location (we could) and IP address. This adds to the effect that you really need to protect your data, since others might be able to access these data bits, as well.

Effectively using the app

We’ve covered a bunch of steps upstairs, but the more important ones were left for a bit later. First, we need to discuss the basics of the application. Its interface is rather plain and unattractive, but what it lacks in terms of being visually appealing it makes it up for it with intuitive features.

In the main window, you can see a bunch of additional information, such as how much time has passed since you’ve connected to the VPN, the protocol you’re using, the server you’re connected to, data up and also data down values. After you choose your favorite country/city/server combo, just press the “Connect” button, and you’re ready to go.

The main controls are organized in the right part of the screen, while the ones that let you navigate through the app freely are available in the left part of the window. The center, larger portion of the screen has a graph where you can quickly preview the values of your download and upload speeds as well as a real-time graph of these two parameters.

The latter include “Quick Connect,” whose functionality is kind of obvious, the “Server List” – which is just as easy to figure out, “Account Details” – that contains, guess what, your account info, the “Settings” tab and also the “Information” one, which just displays the same privacy policy from the website. We don’t need to go through that again.

Now that we know how to do basic stuff like moving around the menus and what they let us access, let’s move on to the next chapter of our journey: connecting to a server and remaining secure.

Pick a server or let IPVanish pick one for you

As you log into the app and reach its main window, you’ll notice that the combo menus are set to a region already. Ours was set to the United States, maybe yours is different, but then again, it is the company’s birth location, after all, right?

The other two menus are not entirely blank, but they point to “Best City” and “Best Server.” Therefore, the app can point out the fastest and most reliable servers so that you don’t waste a lot of time searching for the perfect combo.

If you’re more sophisticated than letting a machine decide what’s best for your privacy, you can go ahead and browse the whole list of servers. While the number doesn’t even get close to what other premium services are offering for this price, the app provides you, after all, with a decent amount of servers that you can connect to (currently over 1,300 servers that cover more than 75 countries).

Intuitive configuration section

If you feel like tinkering with the application’s settings, you can easily do so by navigating to the “Settings” tab, which is divided into three separate sections: “General,” “Connection” and “Diagnostics.”

The sections speak for themselves, as the first one lets you adjust a bunch of generic options, such as setting IPVanish to launch on system startup and also hide it in the system tray if you want to. Other generic settings include disabling the automatic connection, connecting to a favorite server, choosing what the close button does (it quits the app, hides it to tray or prompts you with a dialog), opting in for betas, and getting support.

The second tab lets you choose the active protocol from the combo menu, auto reconnecting, enabling the kill switch, and toggling IPv6 and DNS leak protection options (which, in our opinion, should be enabled by default and not letting the users toggle them on and off freely). You can also choose the OpenVPN port, obfuscate OpenVPN traffic, and install or repair the OpenVPN driver.

Diagnostics is just a fancy word for a log since all this section does is recording your in-app activity, timestamps it, and lets you view it in an accessible manner. This can be really useful whenever you want to troubleshoot certain errors or issues that might arise.

List of servers

The United States has most of the servers (787), Europe takes second place on this list with 451 servers. In contrast, Oceania has only 83 of them, Asia 62, Central and South America 32 servers, and Africa comes in last with only seven servers.

List of IPVanish locations

The application also comes with an effective filter that sorts its results by country, response time, load, and whether you added them to your favorite list or not. You can apply the filter, perform a manual search in the dedicated field on the right, and access some additional features such as an interactive map that depicts the servers in the world.

Services unlocked

If you’re searching for a VPN solution just so you can enjoy watching your favorite TV shows on Netflix, or Hulu, and can’t do it otherwise, then you’re in luck.

IPVanish is perfectly capable of unblocking Netflix and its U.S. version, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime Video, and other similar entertainment services for you, regardless of your location.

However, you should be on your toes at all times, especially since Netflix (and others, too) have decided to crack down on many of its customers, mainly on those who share accounts and users who try to access unavailable content via VPN, proxy or unblockers.

TOR and torrenting support

As far as TOR and torrenting are concerned, before we descend into this chapter, you should know that IPVanish is totally capable of handling both. However, you should only engage in torrenting if you’re 100% sure that what you’re about to download or upload is perfectly legal and doesn’t violate any intellectual property rights. We mean, don’t engage piracy if you want to keep yourself on IPVanish’s (and the law’s) good side.

TOR, on the other hand, while legal and supported, comes with a bit of a gray area – which is more than just a bit, considering that landing on certain (malicious) TOR exit nodes can expose your traffic (since it passes unencrypted through those nodes) and can turn you into a perfect monitoring target.

That, and the fact that using TOR alone (without a VPN in the equation) will cause your connection’s speed to drop significantly, should be enough to put you off from using TOR in conjunction with any VPN, not just IPVanish. Still, in the end, it’s really your call.

Running IPVanish in the background while gaming

If you are a gamer, then you’ll be happy to know that IPVanish does not require too many resources in order to run, and it also doesn’t affect your online gaming sessions too much. According to our tests, the latency definitely takes a hit when the VPN connection is active, but the good news is that it’s only a marginal increase. Obviously, it depends on the chosen location, since you might actually get some bigger penalties in some cases.

However, even if you choose a server on a different continent, chances are that you may still be able to remain competitive, at least in the case of slower-paced video games. If the chosen location is nearby, however, the differences are very hard to notice, so you definitely do not need to worry about letting the app run in the background.

Does IPVanish work in China?

As it turns out, the IPVanish apps do not work in China, which means that it’s practically impossible to download and run the apps from the official website. On the other hand, it may be possible to set up a connection manually, although it must be mentioned that IPVanish states that a lot of their IPs and servers are banned in China, so even that may not work properly.

In essence, your only solution is to create a manual connection and use your IPVanish credentials. On Windows, this can be achieved by creating an L2TP VPN connection. Naturally, this is a lot more complicated than a simple app install, which means that novices will probably have a hard time getting it to work. On top of that, even advanced users might run into trouble when it comes to finding servers that work on Chinese territory.

Customer support

First thing’s first, IPVanish has a live chat option, so if you’re a huge fan of chatting with other folks, you can just go wild by clicking the inviting green-colored “Help” button on IPVanish’s website. However, note that you won’t get a human assistant just yet, as you have to go through a bunch of bot-powered questions first.

If you’re more of a lone wolf, you could just go straight to the FAQ section and see if your issue is frequent enough to have a question created and answered after it, or search through the several articles that IPVanish holds in its Knowledge Base. I forgot to mention, if you like talking to people, but just not in real-time, you can send them an email. Yes, they also support that.

The bottom line is IPVanish really came prepared for the fight, so you can’t really complain about them not having proper support for their customers. Plus, they always answer quickly, their crew is friendly, and the responses they provide you with are always helpful. At least they were to us.

Security test results

As always, we’ve run some tests to decide whether this tool really protects you by erasing your online tracks or just leaves a trail of breadcrumbs for other malevolent users to pick up on and identify you without efforts.

The tools we used are the same as we’ve described in this awesome article, so if you didn’t get to it so far, now is the best time to do so. Coming up next, security test results.

Bottom line: IPVanish is secure and doesn’t leak any information.

Speed test results

Speed-wise, we only picked a single server for each region, since we considered it would be enough in order to determine the speed values for servers located at various distances. The results were pretty average, as you can see in the following list and also the attached screenshots:

As in most of the cases, the servers which were nearest to us were faster, but in this situation, we were surprised to notice that the US servers also provided relatively decent values. However, as you probably noticed, we couldn’t test a US server with fast.com, which is why we have chosen Canada instead.

Plans and payment methods

If you’re the type of user who wants to test the product before buying it, you’re out of luck, since IPVanish doesn’t provide you with a trial period or even a demo. Long story short, if you want it, you buy it.

According to IPVanish, the reason behind this is that if you use a free VPN, you’re actually the product that’s being sold, as the company behind free VPN services finds various ways to monetize their services. They do it by either selling your data, manipulating traffic, or bombarding you with advertisements.

While this is a valid point that we strongly agree with, there’s no reason not to offer at least a few days of trial to new users, but that’s not up to us. Even so, they’re offering a 7-day money-back guarantee, so if you’re not satisfied with their services, you can request a refund with no big efforts.

You can choose from three different plans, depending on your needs, as follows:

As for the payment methods, you can choose to acquire their services by paying with your credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, JCB, Visa Electron and Delta) or process a payment through your PayPal account.

Free SugarSync storage with every subscription plan

One cool thing that’s worth mentioning is that any IPVanish subscription also gets you 250 GB of free cloud storage on SugarSync. If you are not familiar with the service, it basically allows you to synchronize the files on your computer with copies stored on cloud servers.

Thus, any changes you make to a file or a document on your computer is immediately applied to the copies stored on SugarSync, which are basically your backups. To make things even better, this also allows you to quickly share photos, documents, and videos with other people, instead of having to upload them to a separate platform.

A business VPN solution is available as well

If you are looking for a VPN solution to cover your entire company, IPVanish has you covered as well, although it’s not exactly the same product. In essence, they offer you the possibility to subscribe to the Encrypt.me VPN for Teams, which is designed to scale up to hundreds of users at once. If you are curious about the non-business solution from Encrypt.me, you can check out our review as well.

At the moment, you can get a subscription for a minimum of 2 users, which costs $7.99 per user, so $15.98/month in total for two users. This can be increased to up to 250 users in total, and the monthly price drops to $5.99 per each user. If you want to cover more than 250 users, you will have to get in contact with the company by sending an email.

Conclusion

Considering everything that’s been presented to you in this review, IPVanish is a pretty reliable VPN provider when it comes to protecting your data against leaking, while also providing you with high-speed values – even for servers that are far away from your physical location.

It doesn’t come with a trial period but offers you a 7-day money-back guarantee in case you change your mind. The subscription plans are rather accessible money-wise, and the payment can be processed by credit card and PayPal.

On the downside, some minor details in their privacy policy that have been discussed in this review (combined with a bunch of misfortunate events in their past) might make some users doubt their zero-logging policy.

Do we recommend IPVanish? Yes, if you’re not bothered by the U.S.A. being a part of the 5 Eyes Agreement.

PROs:
+ No security leaks during testing; (5)
+ High-speed servers; (4)
+ Accessible subscription plans; (4)
+ Quite wide server network; (4)

CONs:
– Privacy Policy slips; (1)
– Has a history of logging real IP addresses along with other critical data; (1)

IPVanish receives a 3.16/5 rating.