Both NordVPN and IPVanish offers you excellent VPN services with similar features, but let us take a closer look by comparing both NordVPN and IPVanish under the following headings.
Log keeping
Both NordVPN and IPVanish promises not to keep users logs, but users should bear in mind that IPVanish is located in the US, a country that is noted for strict surveillance. While NordVPN is located in Panama, a country without laws favouring data retention.
Servers and locations
NordVPN has 4,684 servers in 62 countries of the world. Some of these servers have extra features like P2P, Double VPN, etc. IPVanish has 3,584 servers located in 60 countries of the world. For users outside of Europe and North America, NordVPN will be a more preferable option due to its numerous servers and strong presence.
Connection Speed
Users can enjoy amazing connection speed with either NordVPN or IPVanish. Both offer users similar high connection speed.
Devices and connectivity
With NordVPN, users can connect a maximum of 6 devices under the same account using a router. While IPVanish allows a user to connect up to 10 devices using a router, but it only allows 1 device to connect using PPTP or L2TP while the rest of the devices uses OpenVPN, IEv2, or IPSec. Users can choose to use IPvanish with a DD-WRT or Tomato router to give all connected devices the same VPN protection.
Bandwidth Limits
Both NordVPN and IPVanish offers users unlimited bandwidth. Users can choose to connect to any of the two without time or bandwidth limit.
Features
NordVPN offers users features such as double VPN for extra privacy protection, CyberSec filter for blocking out ads and malicious sites, servers dedicated to P2P and Onion access. Users can also enjoy all of these features from IPVanish with the exception of servers dedicated to P2P file sharing. Also, both NordVPN and IPVanish have kill switches and other features to prevent DNS leaks and have apps and clients for Windows PC and Mobile devices, Android and iOS devices, etc.
Pricing
With NordVPN, users have 4 plans to choose from.
- 3 years plan for $99, amounting to $2.75 per month
- 2 years plan for $39.48 amounting to $3.29 per month
- 1-year plan for $69 amounting to $5.75 per month
- 1-month plan for $11.95
IPVanish also offers users three plans to choose from
- 1-year plan for $77.88 amounting to $6.49 per month
- 3 months plan for $26.97 amounting to $8.99 per month
- A monthly plan for $10.
Conclusion
NordVPN offers users the advantages of more servers with extra features, wider coverage and economical long term price plans.
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