Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Benin: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Benin’s Digital Code (Law 2017-20 of 20 April 2018) makes operators erase or anonymise traffic data, but lets erasure be deferred for up to one year for the authorities.
Under article 33 of the Digital Code, operators and providers of online public communication services must erase or anonymise traffic data, subject to articles 34 to 37; so must anyone offering the public a network connection, even free. Article 34 lets erasure be deferred for at most one year so that data can reach judicial and administrative authorities, on terms a ministerial order sets. Article 38 requires operators to identify all users at subscription.
Under article 595, administrative authorities to be designated by regulation may authorise interception and the collection of the data named in articles 33 to 37; article 596 allows this for national defence, major foreign-policy, economic and scientific interests, terrorism and organised crime. Whether a VPN operator falls within article 33 is not established.
Article 506 shields a host from liability for stored content if, on learning of specific illegal content, it informs the police or judicial services, or removes or disables access promptly after receiving an injunction.
On conviction under the Code’s cybercrime provisions, a court may ban the convicted person from sending electronic messages and bar access to the site used, for one to ten years, and may order those responsible for the site to put in place the technical means to bar access or cut it off (article 585).
Article 550 punishes harassment by electronic communication with one month to two years and a fine of 500,000 to 10 million CFA francs, and spreading false information about a person on social networks with one to six months. Article 551 punishes racist or xenophobic insult through a computer system (six months to seven years); article 552 punishes incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence online (one year and a fine of five million).
On 6 July 2026 the economic-offences and terrorism court (CRIET) sentenced a person under article 550 over two Facebook posts.
On 28 October 2021 the Constitutional Court (DCC 21-271) held that article 550(2) does not breach the constitutional equality clause when compared with the defamation rules of the Information and Communication Code. It treated harassment by electronic communication and defamation as different offences.
Benin deposited on 25 March 2020 the withdrawal of its declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to bring cases directly to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; it took effect on 26 March 2021. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Benin
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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What moved
Every row is the record’s own history[], filtered to U02_server_countries and P04_mandate_response; the whole log holds every field.
29 Aug 20261 changes
NordVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response
not on the record changed to withdrew_physical
Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
Security
Usability
