AirVPN is a VPN service established in Italy in 2010. The company doesn't publicly publish its ownership, but it claims to be "operated exclusively by activists, privacy, data protection, and security issues aware persons, and law experts." It has servers in over 20 countries, support for a range of different platforms, and support for WireGuard and OpenVPN with obfuscation features.
Our Verdict
AirVPN is great for torrenting. It allows you to download P2P files and doesn't have a data limit. Its security is acceptable, as it keeps your IP address and DNS queries within its tunnel while you use it. However, its kill switch doesn't work properly, as it allows some unencrypted traffic to leak past the VPN in the event of a system reboot. You can pay with a variety of cryptocurrencies and sign up without an email address for more anonymity.
Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Can register and pay anonymously.
Kill switch leaks unencrypted traffic.
AirVPN is adequate for private browsing. It has acceptable security that keeps your IP address and DNS queries hidden while you use it, and its policies and business practices are adequate. It has clear privacy policies stating that it doesn't log any of your internet traffic or personal information, but the company hasn't published any independent audits to verify that it upholds those policies or has a robust security infrastructure.
Can register and pay anonymously.
Clear privacy and no-logs policies.
No independent security or policy audits.
Poor record of communication transparency.
AirVPN has okay policies and company practices. Its privacy and no-logging policies are clear, stating that the company doesn't retain any user traffic, but it hasn't published any independent audits verifying its policy adherence or its security infrastructure. The company also wasn't fully transparent about a past security incident, taking years to announce it and subsequently deleting the announcement.
Can register and pay anonymously.
Clear privacy and no-logs policies.
No independent security or policy audits.
Poor record of communication transparency.
AirVPN has acceptable security. It doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries while you're connected to it, and it has proper TLS implementation, protecting you from man-in-the-middle attacks. Unfortunately, its kill switch doesn't work as intended, as it leaks some unencrypted traffic upon rebooting your system. This is a concern if you need all your traffic to be encrypted after a system crash.
Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Kill switch leaks unencrypted traffic.
We're testing this VPN's speed on an ongoing basis and will update this verdict when we have more data. See the Performance section of the review to look at the data we've collected so far.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Mar 02, 2026:
We've added text throughout the review to correspond with the new privacy tests in Test Bench 0.10.
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Updated Jan 23, 2026:
We've updated the text throughout the review to reflect the changes from test bench 0.10.1.
- Updated Jan 23, 2026: We've updated this review to Test Bench 0.10.1! This is a minor update to how we conduct our speed tests. Read the changelog for more info.
- Updated Jan 15, 2026: We've updated our review to Test Bench 0.10! This update focuses on privacy and evaluates the trustworthiness of a VPN in keeping your personal information private. Read the changelog for more details.
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Popular VPN Comparisons
AirVPN is comparable to other VPNs we've tested in terms of security and functionality, but like most, it fails the kill switch test. That could be an issue if you're concerned with keeping your traffic protected at all times, like after restarting your system. If you're interested in a VPN with a functional kill switch, check out Mullvad.
The VPN's policies are clearly written and don't indicate any sort of logging or unnecessary data collection, but it hasn't published any independent audits to verify its security or privacy practices. It doesn't have the most server locations to choose from, and you can only have five devices connected simultaneously.
To see which services we recommend, check out our articles on the best VPNs, best VPNs for privacy, or the best VPNs for torrenting.
Test Results
The kill switch doesn't work as intended, as network traffic leaks outside the VPN tunnel after a reboot. This can be problematic if you're concerned about keeping your traffic encrypted at all times, like if your system freezes and you have to restart it.
Like most VPN services, AirVPN doesn't implement BGP properly. This means that even if your ISP protects against attacks like route hijacking, your traffic could still be misdirected once it enters the VPN's network. This is only a concern for highly targeted and resource-intensive attacks that are feasible only for governments or large corporations to orchestrate.
AirVPN's no-logs policy clearly states that the company doesn't retain your personal information or log your internet traffic while using the VPN. Unfortunately, AirVPN hasn't published any independent, third-party audits of its privacy or no-logs policies to verify that it upholds them. That said, there have been a couple of instances in which authorities seized their servers, only to leave empty-handed because no logs were stored on them.
AirVPN's company practices are decent; its biggest shortcomings are transparency in communication and its terms of service. The company didn't disclose a 2015 server seizure until 2023, and AirVPN deleted its initial announcement of the seizure. The company didn't respond to users' questions about why the announcement was deleted. AirVPN has never published any independent audits of its security infrastructure, but its software is open source, and there's a bug bounty program.
The terms of service lack an appeal process for users in violation, and give the company the right to terminate accounts at its discretion. There's no mention of communicating with users about updates to the ToS, and the ToS appears to be out of date.
Beyond that, AirVPN is transparent about its ownership and doesn't engage in misleading or particularly aggressive marketing.
While AirVPN includes an input field for your email address on the sign-up page, there's a note that says entering a valid email address isn't required, so you can enter a random string for greater anonymity.
You can pay with PayPal, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, Doge, most major credit cards, Amazon Pay, and more via Stripe, the payment processing service.
We're experiencing intermittent issues with our speed and latency testing for AirVPN, so these results aren't representative of what you'd achieve. We're investigating the issues and will update the review once they've been resolved.
Since AirVPN doesn't have servers in Australia, we connected to their New Zealand servers instead.
This VPN has x86 (64-bit) clients for Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux, with ARM support for all except Arch Linux. You can also manually configure WireGuard and OpenVPN.
It has apps for iOS, Android, Android TV, Fire OS, and Chrome OS. You can also install it on your router so all your network traffic goes through the VPN.
