NymVPN is built by Nym Technologies (Neuchatel, Switzerland) on the Nym decentralized mixnet. It offers two modes in one client: a 5-hop mixnet mode that adds cover traffic and packet reordering to defeat traffic analysis, and a faster 2-hop mode over AmneziaWG (a censorship-resistant WireGuard fork) for lower-latency browsing. Neither mode lets a single node see both endpoints.
Reviewed by Marco Wollank
NymVPN
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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
NymVPN is the right tool when the threat model extends to metadata and traffic-analysis attacks, not just IP masking. The 5-hop mixnet mode is meaningfully more protective than a conventional VPN or even Tor for timing-correlation resistance, and the open-source client has been audited by Cure53 and others. The honest catch is speed: mixnet mode trades latency for anonymity, and the decentralized node network is younger and smaller than established VPN fleets. Best suited for high-sensitivity use cases where a slower connection is an acceptable cost.
GitHub at a glance
nymtech/nym-vpn-client
Stars
474
+ 6 this week
Last commit
7d ago
healthy
License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
nym-vpn-android-v2026.10.0
1mo ago
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Website at a glance
nym.com
B score 75
Solid website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 13d ago
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NymVPN 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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