Where they land on the spectrum depends on several factors, including: their business model, country of residence (and applicable data retention policy), and their risk tolerance. VPNs fall into 3 categories of torrent-friendliness. They do allow torrents (some restrict them to specific geographic servers). Most of these providers do keep metadata logs, but because they use shared IP addresses they are theoretically unable to identify specific accounts based on torrent IP history.
They are still highly anonymous, though most in the 8-8.5 range do not have any extra torrent features beyond a kill-switch. These VPNs all either keep no IP metadata, or do keep metadata logs, but only for 24 hours or less. Several of these VPNs (Torguard, BTGuard) offer preconfigured torrent clients with the proper SOCKS proxy settings already installed. All but AirVPN also have anonymous SOCKS proxy service as well (some include it free, others sell it separately).
These VPNs all keep zero logs, and use shared IP addresses. Any VPN with a 9 or better is optimal, and VPNs with a 6 or higher will probably be good enough for average users.Īvoid any VPN 4 or lower if you plan to download torrents more than once/month. The best possible ‘TorrentScore’ is a 10.
The overwhelming majority of VPNs fall into category #2: These VPNs want your business (torrent users are frequent VPN subscribers) but they don’t really want to go out on a limb to protect your right to a free and open internet.
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