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VPNs with servers in the Netherlands

Providers with exit locations in the Netherlands: 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.

Which companies are registered in the Netherlands is a different question, with a page of its own.

40 providersOrdered by securityUpdated 21 October 20262 companies registered here

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.

A Hague court put the Netherlands’ data retention law out of force in 2015, yet article 13.2a of the Telecommunications Act still prints the duty. Intelligence interception needs a minister’s permission, which a review commission tests with binding effect.

On 11 March 2015 the interim-relief judge of the Hague District Court put the Telecommunications Data Retention Act (Wet bewaarplicht telecommunicatiegegevens) out of force, finding its interference with private life and data protection not limited to the strictly necessary. Article 13.2a of the Telecommunications Act nevertheless still prints the duty: providers of public networks and services keep traffic and location data for twelve months (telephony) or six months (internet access, e-mail, internet telephony).

What the law requires of a provider standing here

As of 19 June 2025 the Tweede Kamer’s dossier for the 2016 bill to adjust the retention rules (34537) records a committee decision not to declare it controversial. Providers of public networks and services must also make them interceptable (art. 13.1), cooperate with interception ordered under the Code of Criminal Procedure or permitted under the Wiv 2017 (art. 13.2), and keep such orders confidential (art. 13.5).

An investigating officer who suspects an offence may demand a user’s name, address, number and type of service from a provider of a communication service (art. 126na, Code of Criminal Procedure). Whether a VPN operator is a provider of a public telecommunications service, and so bound by any of this, is not established.

What is restricted

Blocking has come through the courts. After the Supreme Court’s ruling of 29 June 2018 (ECLI:NL:HR:2018:1046), the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled on 2 June 2020 (ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2020:1421) in a copyright case, ordering internet providers to block the IP addresses and domain names giving access to The Pirate Bay, under article 26d of the Copyright Act and article 15e of the Neighbouring Rights Act.

Whether posting can be prosecuted

Defamation (smaad, art. 261 of the Criminal Code) carries up to six months, or a year in writing or images; knowingly false accusation (laster, art. 262), up to two years. Insulting a group publicly on grounds of race, religion, belief, sexual orientation or disability (art. 137c) carries up to a year; incitement to hatred or discrimination (art. 137d), up to two.

To identify who stands behind an account, the investigating officer’s demand under article 126na of the Code of Criminal Procedure reaches the provider; for serious offences, article 126ng allows a prosecutor to demand wider data from a provider of a communication service.

What it means for the rows below

Surveillance by the intelligence services sits under a statutory check. Article 48 of the Wiv 2017 lets the services intercept any form of telecommunication or data transfer, regardless of where it takes place, but only with the responsible minister’s permission, given for at most a year and renewable.

Under article 32 a review commission tests the lawfulness of that permission, and its judgment is binding; article 97 establishes a separate supervisory commission for the services. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.

Netherlands

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.

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
Visit Review
Acceptable
2
Mullvad VPN
Commercial VPNSweden
Coverage50countries
Paying monthly$5.62monthly
Paying yearly$67.44yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices5at once
60 out of 100
Security
64 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Weak
3
IVPN
Commercial VPNGibraltar
Coverage41countries
Paying monthly$6.00monthly
Paying yearly$60.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices5at once
38 out of 100
Security
66 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Weak
4
AirVPN
Commercial VPNItaly
Coverage23countries
Paying monthly$7.87monthly
Paying yearly$55.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices5at once
37 out of 100
Security
58 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
5
hide.me
Commercial VPNMalaysia
Coverage57countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$54.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
28 out of 100
Security
81 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
6
Private Internet Access
Commercial VPNUnited StatesKape Technologies
Coverage91countries
Paying monthly$11.95monthly
Paying yearly$47.88yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devicesunlimitedat once
25 out of 100
Security
73 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
7
RiseupVPN
Censorship toolUnited States
Coverage4countries
Price—no published price
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
25 out of 100
Security
65 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
8
OVPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesPango Group
Coverage20countries
Paying monthly$12.00monthly
Paying yearly$59.88yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices4at once
24 out of 100
Security
62 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
9
CyberGhost VPN
Commercial VPNRomaniaKape Technologies
Coverage91countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly—no yearly plan
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices7at once
21 out of 100
Security
76 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
10
CactusVPN
Commercial VPNNot published
Coverage25countries
Paying monthly$15.00monthly
Paying yearly$70.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devicesunlimitedat once
20 out of 100
Security
66 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Insufficient
11
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
12
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
13
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
Insufficient
14
PrivateVPN
Commercial VPNSwedenMiss Group
Coverage62countries
Paying monthly$9.90monthly
Paying yearly$72.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
15 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
15
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
16
ClearVPN
Commercial VPNCyprus
Coverage54countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$44.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices6at once
12 out of 100
Security
76 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
17
AdGuard
Commercial VPNCyprus
Coverage59countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
11 out of 100
Security
77 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
18
ZoogVPN
Commercial VPNGreece
Coverage80countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$39.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
11 out of 100
Security
74 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
19
StrongVPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesZiff Davis
Coverage42countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.69yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices12at once
11 out of 100
Security
63 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
20
Betternet
Commercial VPNUnited StatesPango Group
Coverage80countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly—no yearly plan
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
10 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
21
Planet VPN
Commercial VPNRomania
Coverage63countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.88yearly total
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
Devices10at once
10 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
22
Malwarebytes VPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesMalwarebytes
Coverage36countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$49.99yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices20at once
10 out of 100
Security
74 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
23
Red Shield VPN
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage36countries
Paying monthly$11.90monthly
Paying yearly$71.40yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
10 out of 100
Security
57 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
24
FlyVPN
Commercial VPNHong Kong SAR ChinaUsability: floor only
Coverage39countries
Paying monthly$9.90monthly
Paying yearly$80.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
8 out of 100
Security
63 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
25
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
26
PrivadoVPN
Commercial VPNIceland
Coverage49countries
Paying monthly$10.99monthly
Paying yearly$15.96yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
6 out of 100
Security
76 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
27
VyprVPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesCertida
Coverage63countries
Paying monthly$10.00monthly
Paying yearly$48.00yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
6 out of 100
Security
71 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
28
BTGuard
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage25countries
Price—no published price
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices20at once
6 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
29
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
30
Avira VPN
Commercial VPNGermanyGen Digital
Coverage35countries
Paying monthly$10.00monthly
Paying yearly$78.00yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices1at once
4 out of 100
Security
60 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
31
FastestVPN
Commercial VPNCayman Islands
Coverage49countries
Paying monthly$5.00monthly
Paying yearly—no yearly plan
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
3 out of 100
Security
79 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
32
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
Visit Review
Not recommended
33
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
Visit Review
Not recommended
34
Whoer
Commercial VPNUnited Arab Emirates
Coverage20countries
Paying monthly$9.90monthly
Paying yearly$29.90yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices5at once
3 out of 100
Security
58 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
35
Goose VPN
Commercial VPNNetherlands
Coverage23countries
Paying monthly$11.59monthly
Paying yearly$69.46yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devicesunlimitedat once
3 out of 100
Security
57 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
36
Browsec
Commercial VPNRussia
Coverage45countries
Paying monthly$6.99monthly
Paying yearly$39.96yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
2 out of 100
Security
75 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
37
Speedify
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage37countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$89.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices5at once
2 out of 100
Security
51 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
38
Urban VPN
Commercial VPNUnited States
Coverage82countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.40yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices8at once
1 out of 100
Security
70 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
39
Turbo VPN
Commercial VPNSingaporeInnovative Connecting
Coverage80countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$59.99yearly total
Free tierYesfree, no data cap
Devices10at once
1 out of 100
Security
67 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review
Not recommended
40
VPN Proxy Master
Commercial VPNSingaporeInnovative Connecting
Coverage52countries
Paying monthly$12.99monthly
Paying yearly$79.99yearly total
Free tierNot publishedno statement found
Devices10at once
1 out of 100
Security
65 out of 100
Usability
Visit Review

VPNs with servers in the Netherlands

Ranked by security

The other 179 countries

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