# VPN Judge
> Honest, EU-focused VPN comparison and review site. Privacy-weighted rankings, jurisdiction analysis, country-specific guidance. Includes Mullvad despite no affiliate relationship — that's the credibility test.

## Editorial Position
- Independent, opinionated VPN comparison site for European users.
- Rankings are privacy-weighted (jurisdiction → no-logs evidence → features).
- We earn affiliate commissions from some — but not all — providers we recommend. Mullvad has no meaningful affiliate program. Mullvad is our top privacy pick anyway.
- Every factual claim is sourced from official provider pricing/feature pages and re-verified monthly.
- Three languages: English (primary), Dutch, German.

## Provider Coverage (7 total)
- NordVPN — 8.5/10 — Best all-round; Panama jurisdiction; audited no-logs.
- Surfshark — 8.0/10 — Best value; unlimited devices; Netherlands (14 Eyes).
- Private Internet Access (PIA) — 7.5/10 — Open-source; port forwarding; US (Five Eyes); Kape ownership.
- ExpressVPN — 8.0/10 — Fastest; BVI jurisdiction; Kape ownership; expensive.
- Proton VPN — 8.5/10 — Swiss; open source; free tier; built by Proton Mail team.
- Mullvad — 9.0/10 — Privacy gold standard; Sweden; flat €5/mo; no email/account.
- CyberGhost — 7.0/10 — Beginner-friendly; Romania; Kape ownership.

## Page Inventory (62 at launch)
- 18 core handcrafted pages (6 × 3 languages: EN, NL, DE)
- 30 country pages, EN only (programmatic from data/countries.ts)
- 7 provider review pages, EN only
- 7 head-to-head comparison pages, EN only

## Country Coverage (30 European countries, EN only at launch)
Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Iceland, Turkey.

## Key Pages
- [Best VPN for Europe](/en/best-vpn): Ranked recommendations.
- [VPN comparison table](/en/vpn-comparison): All 7 providers side-by-side.
- [VPN for streaming](/en/vpn-for-streaming): What unblocks Netflix, BBC iPlayer, NPO, ARD/ZDF.
- [VPN for privacy](/en/vpn-for-privacy): Jurisdiction + audit evidence analysis.
- [VPN for torrenting](/en/vpn-for-torrenting): Port forwarding, kill switches, Abmahnung problem.

## Quick Facts
- Editorial test: Mullvad ranks #1 on privacy despite paying us nothing. PIA's court-tested no-logs is treated as stronger evidence than NordVPN's audited no-logs.
- Currency: USD or EUR per provider, source-of-truth in data/providers.ts.
- Pricing reflects cheapest long-term plan; full monthly is significantly higher for all major providers.
- Last verified: 2026-05-04. Re-verification cadence: monthly.

## Sources
Each provider review links to its source URLs at the bottom. We cite published audits, court records, and official pricing pages — not made-up speed tests or scraped competitor data.