Item: PureVPN
Author: UtilRank Editorial

PureVPN is a consumer VPN service. This review collects what the vendor states about apps, protocols, logging and plans, and what Wikipedia reports about the company’s history. We did not use the service, and we do not call it safe or unsafe: where a source is critical, we name the source.

How this review was made. This is a research-based review, not a lab test. Every claim comes from the vendor's own pages and Wikipedia, read on 19 October 2026 and listed at the bottom. Where a source does not say something, we write "not stated". A vendor describing itself is a claim, not a verified fact. A page we tried to read at purevpn.com/no-logs-policy returned an error, and we found no published audit report to read. We do not publish prices: see the vendor's pricing page for your region.

Look at PureVPN if

You want apps for many platforms, including Linux, TV devices and routers.
You want a stated money-back period to try the service within.
You accept a vendor's no-logs statement as a claim and read its privacy policy yourself.

Look elsewhere if

You need a named auditor and a published audit report: we could not find either on the pages we read.
The 2017 case described below is a deciding factor for you.
You want to compare several services first; see our VPN comparison.

What the vendor says

Apps and platforms. The homepage lists apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire Stick and Huawei, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge, and routers.

Protocols and features. The homepage names WireGuard, OpenVPN and IKEv2/IPSec, and obfuscated servers that the vendor says make VPN traffic look like regular HTTPS. The features page lists 256-bit AES encryption, a kill switch, split tunneling, DNS, IPv6 and WebRTC leak protection, a tracker blocker, a password manager, dark web monitoring, data removal requests, quantum-resistant encryption and 24/7 support. The features page itself does not name specific protocols.

Servers. The homepage FAQ says “6,000+ servers spread across 65+ countries”, while another section of the same page mentions “80+ locations”. The server count is a vendor figure we could not verify.

Plans. The pricing page shows three billing terms (two-year, one-year and monthly) and three tiers, Standard, Plus and Max. Plus adds a password manager, and Max adds data removal and dark web monitoring. Add-ons (Dedicated IP, Port Forwarding, Multi Login) are sold separately. Subscriptions auto-renew at the then-current renewal rate, and the page says auto-renewal can be turned off in the member area. All plans carry a 31-day money-back guarantee. The pricing page says one account can protect up to 10 devices, and the Multi Login add-on adds 10 more simultaneous logins. A free trial is not mentioned. For current prices see the vendor’s pricing page, linked below.

No-logs claim and audit (vendor claims). The privacy policy says “We do NOT keep any logs that can identify or help in monitoring a user’s activity”, and lists categories it says it does not store, such as browsing history, connection timestamps and assigned IP addresses. It also lists data it does keep: account data, and support data including connection date, ISP name and routes, and total bandwidth used. It describes exceptions, including dedicated IP addresses kept after a subscription ends, and visited domains being viewable during a connection when the tracker and ad blocker is enabled. The policy describes the default partner network as “KPMG-Audited No-Logs Network” but gives no audit date, scope or result on that page.

A vendor no-log page describes an assessment of its infrastructure performed on 16 to 22 February 2023 by what it calls a “well known audit firm”, with validation completed in March and April 2023, and says the assessment reaffirmed four no-log claims. The auditor is not named on that page, and the full report is not included. The homepage separately calls the policy “independently audited”. We could not verify any of these audit statements: we did not read an audit report, and the pages we read do not name the auditor of that assessment.

Jurisdiction. The privacy policy says the service is run by GZ Systems, registered in the British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Tortola. The homepage does not state where the company is incorporated.

What independent and neutral sources say

The Wikipedia article on PureVPN, read on 19 October 2026, reports:

PureVPN is owned by GZ Systems Ltd., founded in 2007, with a mailing address in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
It states “over 6,500 high-speed servers across 78 countries”, citing a TechRadar article from July 2021. That differs from the vendor’s current homepage figures, and we could not confirm either.
In 2017, PureVPN gave information to FBI agents that helped lead to the arrest of a man in Massachusetts for cyberstalking. The article reports that the company concluded he had used two IP addresses, one at home and one at work.
The article reports differing assessments of that case. Max Eddy of PC Magazine wrote that “In the case of PureVPN, it doesn’t appear that the company breached the trust of its users.” Mike Williams of TechRadar disagreed, writing that the company “made a big deal of its ‘zero log’ policy” but kept logs that let investigators link the man to his activity.
According to the article, PureVPN stores the ISP a user connects through and the day of use, but not the exact time. It also records bandwidth, HTTP cookies for advertising and account details, and does not store the websites users visit.
PC Magazine’s Eddy is quoted as writing that the service “is not a bad service by any measure, but it’s not the best”. TechRadar’s Williams is reported as praising the feature set and performance but saying app usability issues might deter users.
WireGuard support was launched in August 2021, and in April 2022 PureVPN announced a partnership with Quantinuum to add a quantum-resistant feature to its OpenVPN protocol.
The article does not mention any independent security or no-logs audit.

What is not stated

The name of the firm behind the 2023 assessment, and the full audit report: not stated on the pages we read.
The scope and results of the “KPMG-Audited” network audit referred to in the privacy policy: not stated on that page.
Where the company is incorporated, on the homepage: not stated.
Device limits for the Plus and Max tiers separately: not stated on the pricing page.
Independent speed, leak or streaming test results: we did not run or read any, and this review does not make such claims.

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Sources and verification

Read on 19 October 2026. Sources are the vendor’s own pages and Wikipedia. Vendor statements are claims, not verified facts.

PureVPN: Homepage, Pricing, Features, Privacy policy, No-log VPN page
Wikipedia: PureVPN

PureVPN Review (2026): What the Vendor and Wikipedia Say About Apps, Logging and Audits

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