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No Windows client available. The Orchid protocol uses WebRTC. Onion-routed multi-hop connections.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Orchid VPN
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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
Orchid’s onion-routed multi-hop over a marketplace of providers is an interesting attempt at trustless VPN routing, and multi-hop does make any single node less able to decorrelate you. The friction is real: no Windows client, a pay-as-you-go crypto billing model, and the general roughness of an early decentralized network. Pick it only if the multi-hop, no-single-trusted-party design is the actual draw and you can live without a desktop app on Windows.
Website at a glance
orchid.com
B score 75
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