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VPNs that support a WireGuard derivative

Providers that ship a vendor build of WireGuard — NordLynx is the example. A category, and the honest place to put a protocol that is WireGuard with a different name on the box.

3 providersCategory, not a protocolUpdated 13 September 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 2026

Support for a tunnelling protocol, one page per term. U07_protocols replaced U07_modern_protocol in schema 3.4.0: the field used to carry the fastest protocol a provider offered — one value, three terms, only two of them the name of a protocol — and now carries the whole list. These pages are generated from the contract rather than counted from a spreadsheet.

Vendor protocols — Lightway, NordLynx, Hydra, Chameleon — get no page of their own. One vendor with one implementation already has a page: its review. NordLynx is published as wireguard_derived, which is what it is.

WireGuard-derived

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OpenVPN 42 WireGuard 39 IKEv2 34 Obfuscated 25 L2TP 12 Proprietary 10 PPTP 9 Vendor open-source 9 IPsec 7 Shadowsocks 4 SSTP 415 providers in no term — the field is not published

Four of the twelve terms — obfuscated, proprietary, vendor_open, wireguard_derived — are categories rather than protocol names: each says a protocol was disguised, closed or built on another, not which one it is. A record that publishes no protocol list at all appears on none of these pages (fifteen on file).

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NordVPN
Commercial VPNPanamaNord Security
Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
17 out of 100
Security
70 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
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NymVPN
DecentralizedSwitzerland
Coverage—not published
Paying monthly$7.99monthly
Paying yearly$34.68yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices10at once
8 out of 100
Security
68 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
3
Amnezia
Commercial VPNRomania
Coverage20countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$50.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices7at once
3 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
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VPNs that support a WireGuard derivative

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