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VPNs with servers in Brunei

Providers with exit locations in Brunei: 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.

8 providersOrdered by securityUpdated 21 October 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 21 October 2026

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.

Brunei’s class licence for internet service providers requires the licensee to keep and furnish whatever records the Minister asks for, with no period stated, and the Telecommunications Order 2001 lets the Minister direct licensees to stop, delay or censor messages.

Internet service providers and content providers hold a class licence under the Broadcasting Act (Chapter 180), whose conditions require the licensee to obey Brunei’s laws, to assist the Minister in investigating any breach of licence or alleged violation of any law and produce records, documents and data for it (paragraph 8), and to keep and furnish all records relating to its service as the Minister may require (paragraph 10). No period is stated.

What the law requires of a provider standing here

Under the Telecommunications Order 2001, an officer or employee of a public telecommunication licensee commits an offence by intercepting or detaining a message except on an order under the Minister’s hand or a court direction (section 42). Whether a VPN operator is a licensee under either instrument is not established.

What is restricted

The Internet Code of Practice (Notification S 12/2001) requires licensees to use best efforts to keep off the internet content against the public interest or national harmony.

The listed categories include content that brings into hatred or contempt, or incites disaffection against, the Sultan or the Government; content that denigrates the religion of Islam or is against the practices of Islam according to the Shafeite sect; content preaching other religions; and pornographic or obscene content. The Minister may impose fines on licensees who contravene it.

Whether posting can be prosecuted

The regulator, AITI, lists the laws that apply to online conduct: the Sedition Act (Chapter 24), the Penal Code (obscene articles), the Defamation Act (Chapter 192), the Public Order Act (Chapter 148, spreading false information), the Newspaper Act (Chapter 105, false news), the Undesirable Publications Act (Chapter 25) and the Syariah Penal Code Order 2013 (insulting Islam and the Prophet). The Royal Brunei Police Force enforces most of them.

Section 6 of the Computer Misuse Act (Chapter 194) separately punishes unauthorised interception of a computer service, with up to three years’ imprisonment, and section 14 preserves police investigations under any written law.

What it means for the rows below

The Telecommunications Order lets the Minister give licensees directions in a public emergency, in the public interest or in the interests of public security, and those directions may prohibit or regulate the use of telecommunications and provide for stopping, delaying and censoring messages (section 61). An interception may rest on a ministerial order as well as on a court direction (section 42).

The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.

Brunei

Ranked by security

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.

What moved

Changes to the country lists and mandate postures of the providers listed here

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 20263 changes

ExpressVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response

not on the record changed to withdrew_physical

NordVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response

not on the record changed to withdrew_physical

SurfsharkResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response

not on the record changed to withdrew_physical

Acceptable
1
Proton VPN
Commercial VPNSwitzerland
Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
70 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
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Insufficient
2
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
Visit Review
Insufficient
3
Surfshark
Commercial VPNNetherlandsNord Security
Coverage100countries
Paying monthly$16.45monthly
Paying yearly$79.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devicesunlimitedat once
16 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
4
X-VPN
Commercial VPNSingapore
Coverage96countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
15 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
5
ExpressVPN
Commercial VPNBritish Virgin IslandsKape Technologies
Coverage106countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$74.85yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
14 out of 100
Security
70 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
6
VeePN
Commercial VPNPanama
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
7 out of 100
Security
77 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
7
Norton VPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesGen Digital
Coverage103countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$39.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices5at once
4 out of 100
Security
75 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
8
Bitdefender
Commercial VPNRomania
Coverage109countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$34.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
3 out of 100
Security
77 out of 100
Usability
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VPNs with servers in Brunei

Ranked by security

The other 179 countries

Changes to the country lists and mandate postures of the providers listed here