Windscribe is operated by Windscribe Limited and based in Canada. The register records 4 independent audits (3 with a linked report), 3 incidents and a lowest verified price of $5.75 per month on a 12 months term.
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Verified facts
Checked 28 Sept 2026ActiveFrom the vendor's own pages, auditors' reports and named news outlets. Not our measurements.
Owner
Windscribe Limited sourceUltimate owner: not established from a primary source
Windscribe says it keeps no identifying logs: no historical record of who used which IP, only limited non-identifying data (last-used date, 30-day bandwidth total). sourceThis is the vendor's claim, paraphrased. An audit below is what tests it.
2021-07Two servers seized by Ukrainian authorities; Windscribe says no user data was exposed but an OpenVPN CA key was exposed because servers were not encrypted at rest; led to FreshScribe rebuild. source
11 Apr 2025Legal case in Greece against Windscribe's CEO over a Finland server IP was dismissed; no user data was handed over. source
2026-02Dutch authorities physically seized a Windscribe server; per Windscribe it ran RAM-only and held no data. source
All first-party clientsWindscribe says all its apps (desktop, Android, browser extension) are open source; GitHub org Windscribe. Repos not individually checked. source
RAM-only servers
all servers (Windscribe says entire infrastructure runs RAM-only) source
Refund window
Initial payment refundable if requested within 7 business days (TL;DR says 7 days) of subscription start and usage under 10 GB source
Price per month
Windscribe price per month by billed term, in the vendor's own currency
Billed term
Per month
Charged up front
Note
1 month
$9.00
$9.00
Pro monthly plan, auto-renews; no promo shown on the page fetched. source
12 months
$5.75
$69.00
Pro yearly plan billed $69 every 12 months. source
billing period not verified
not verified
not verified
Upgrade page lists only monthly, yearly and build-a-plan. source
Per-month figures are the vendor's displayed monthly equivalent for the whole billed term, so terms of different length are not like for like. No currency conversion.
Not verified
ultimateOwner: not verified (founders Sak, Paguis, Ulicki named on about page, share not stated).
pricing page /features/pricing 404; used /upgrade (USD). Promo/renewal not confirmed; 2-year inferred not offered from absence on page.
Packetlabs report URL not found (reportUrl null).
Ukraine 2021 incident sourced only to Windscribe's own page (no external report fetched).
To check current terms, go to Windscribe's own site.
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