IPVanish Review

IPVanish has a simple pricing scheme with just three options, depending on how often you're billed. All have the same feature set. The service costs $11.99 per month, $35.97 billed every three months, or $143.88 billed annually. As is the case with most VPN services, it offers a variety of special deals and discounts. It increased latency moreso than any other service we tested. While it lacks in the speed department it makes up for it with a large geographically diverse list of servers.

What we like

• Hundreds of servers around the globe
• Allows BitTorrenting
• Automatic IP address cycling
• Kill Switch

What we don't like

• Unattractive, unwelcoming interface
• Expensive $$$$
• Horrible increase to latency

Speed

In tests, IPVanish increased latency by 253.3 percent. That's the largest impact we’ve seen in tests, and it's particularly dramatic compared to services like PureVPN, which increased latency by only 6.7 percent. For download speeds, IPVanish reduced download speeds by 6.6 percent. That's a small impact and similar to most other VPNs, but keep in mind that PureVPN improved download speeds by 346.4 percent.

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Privacy

IPVanish crams a lot of surprising, advanced tools into its service. Its pricing is on the high side, but many users will be willing to pay for the unfettered, encrypted access to BitTorrent and P2P services. There is also an option to cycle IP addresses, which is rare among VPNs.

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Servers

IPVanish boasts over 750 VPN servers spread across 61 countries. It's a robust list, including servers in Africa, Asia (including China), Central and South America, North America, Europe, India, and the Middle East. In terms of geographic diversity, only a few of the best services can boast a list of servers this large and complete. Private Internet Access, goes even further, with more than 3,000 servers the world over, making it one of the most robust VPN services.