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Unlimited devices, affordable price, 135 countries and over 16,000 servers. No email sign up required.
Reviewed by Marcus Holmberg
Mysterium VPN
mysteriumvpn.com 3 ratings so far*
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Mysterium’s pitch is real reach for a decentralized network, with thousands of nodes across many countries and no email needed to start. The catch is the model itself: exits are run by paid volunteers, so reliability and speed vary node to node and you are trusting whoever happens to be hosting your exit. It is one of the more usable dVPNs if you genuinely want the decentralized approach, but a single-operator commercial VPN remains the safer pick for consistency.
GitHub at a glance
mysteriumnetwork/node GPL-3.0 blockchaindistributeddistributed-systemsgolangnetworkingvpnvpn-clientvpn-servervpnfree
Stars
1,359
+4 this week
Forks
358
73 watching
Last commit
6d ago
healthy
Latest release
1.39.9
6d ago, 100+ total
Star history
Issues
98% closed
81
open
3,454
closed
+4 / -2
opened / closed, last 4 weeks
Opened vs closed, last 12 weeks
Commits, last 26 weeks
22 commits, active 9 of 26 weeks
48 contributors since Jan 2017
Languages
- Go 99%
- Shell 0.9%
- Dockerfile 0.1%
Updated daily from the GitHub API. Star tracking since Jun 15, 2026.
Website at a glance
mysteriumvpn.com
D- score 25
Weak website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 13d ago
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Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
Mysterium VPN alternatives
NymVPN Decentralized VPN built on the Nym mixnet, with a 5-hop anonymous mode and a faster 2-hop WireGuard mode in one client.
Safing Privacy Network - SPN SPN enables users to select different identities (IP addresses) for each app. Certain apps and domains can be excluded as well. Volunteers are able to host a community node but…
Sentinel Interesting project in an early stage. Instead of wasting server resources, this new protocol is using peer-to-peer user nodes to create a fully functioning bandwith network.
Orchid VPN No Windows client available. The Orchid protocol uses WebRTC. Onion-routed multi-hop connections.
KelVPN No iOS app yet. Node operators get rewarded with $KEL tokens with staking options.
Tachyon VPN No Windows client available, but coming soon. Number of nodes in Jan 2023: 1128. Source . Node operators receive IPX token rewards with staking options.
Mysterium VPN license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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