About SingleVerdict
SingleVerdict is a VPN testing publication, not a review aggregator. We don’t rewrite provider marketing copy, summarize press kits, or rank services by affiliate payout. Every verdict published here comes out of a runtime test we ran ourselves, on a subscription we paid for, against traffic we generated.
The VPN market runs on unverifiable claims: “audited no-logs,” “RAM-only servers,” “zero leaks,” “military-grade encryption.” Most of those phrases get published unchecked, by someone who never opened the app. Our job is narrower and more specific: take the claim, run it against live traffic for two weeks, and publish what the traffic actually did.
How we test
Full detail lives on our Methodology page. In short: no press or reviewer accounts, six global testing nodes running hourly checks for a minimum of two weeks per provider (212 hours of logging per review cycle), a full leak panel covering DNS, WebRTC, and IPv6 across major operating systems, and a quarterly re-test on every published verdict.
What our testing has verified
Specifics beat adjectives. When we tested Proton VPN’s Secure Core routing, a multi-hop path through Switzerland, Iceland, and Sweden, DNS and WebRTC exposure had to hold clean across major desktop and mobile platforms before we’d call the feature verified, not just marketed. NordVPN posted the fastest sustained speeds we’ve logged across our six-node network, out of every provider we’ve tested to date. Mullvad’s signup asks for an account number, nothing else: no email, no name, which matches the same anonymity model that reportedly left Swedish police with no customer data to seize during a 2023 raid on the company’s Gothenburg office. None of that is a provider’s word taken at face value. It’s what our own nodes recorded, cross-checked against what’s independently on the public record.
How we make money
We’re supported by affiliate links, disclosed on the pages that carry them (not re-explained here, see our Affiliate Disclosure). No provider has ever paid for a ranking, a review, or a placement on this site. If a provider’s affiliate program disappeared tomorrow, its position in our verdicts wouldn’t move, because that position was set by testing data, not commercial terms.
Corrections and accountability
Provider infrastructure changes: server pools move, protocols get swapped, ownership changes hands. When our quarterly re-test turns up a result that contradicts a published verdict, we correct the page and note what changed. We’re not trying to be first. We’re trying to be right at every re-test.
Contact
Questions about a verdict, a correction request, or something our testing missed: reach the desk directly through our contact page.