Servers in country

VPNs with servers in Vietnam

The law in Vietnam puts a VPN provider with servers in the country under obligations to the state — keeping records about its users, registering, or giving the authorities access. On record here: Cybersecurity Law 2018 — data localisation and retention.

Some of the providers listed here say they removed their physical servers and serve the country from hardware elsewhere; each row carries the provider’s own answer.

23 providersOrdered by securityUpdated 14 September 2026No company registered here

The HushFleet teamRegister of 26 September 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.

An exit here is under a retention mandate. Cybersecurity Law 2018 — data localisation and retention. From the contract's country table — the same field that marks a country on a record's own list.

Using a VPN is not itself an offence in Vietnam. An exit standing here stands under a cybersecurity law that requires user data to be kept in the country and handed to the Ministry of Public Security on request.

The Cybersecurity Law 2018 required providers of telecoms, internet and online services to store Vietnamese users’ data in Vietnam — domestic firms outright, foreign ones on the ministry’s order — and Decree 53/2022 set the period at no less than 24 months. The Cybersecurity Law 2025, in force since 1 July 2026, replaced it and kept localisation.

What the law requires of a provider standing here

The rules name what is kept — account name, time of use, payment information, the IP address — and requires it handed over within 24 hours of a request, three hours in an emergency.

What is restricted

Decree 147/2024, in force since 25 December 2024, allows only accounts verified by a Vietnamese phone number or national identity number to post, comment or livestream, and obliges platforms to find and remove unlawful content and to hand user data to the authorities.

Telegram was ordered blocked in May 2025. The 2025 law forbids posting information that propagandises against the state.

Whether posting can be prosecuted

Yes, and prison terms are long. Posts are prosecuted under the Penal Code: article 117, propaganda against the state, and article 331, abusing democratic freedoms. At least 36 critics were sentenced in 2024 over posts or livestreams; a video blogger received twelve years that October.

With accounts tied to a phone number or an identity card, the account is the exposure. A VPN does not change what was published under it.

What it means for the rows below

An exit in Vietnam is an exit under that law, and the register marks the mandate on a record’s own country list.

23 of the 77 records publish an exit here. That is a usability fact — reach — and it is not a recommendation: the order of the rows is the security score, and the mandate above sits on the provider, not on the reader.

Vietnam

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.

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

VPNs with servers in Vietnam

Ranked by security

The other 179 countries

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

Proton VPN

hide.me

Private Internet Access

CyberGhost VPN

NordVPN

X-VPN

ExpressVPN

PrivateVPN

Surfshark

ZoogVPN

Betternet

AdGuard

FlyVPN

VeePN

Planet VPN

VyprVPN

Norton VPN

FastestVPN

Bitdefender

VPN Gate

Urban VPN

Turbo VPN

VPN Proxy Master