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IVPN vs Secure Privacy

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IVPN

Cybersecurity

Privacy-focused VPN with anonymous account numbers instead of email signup

From
$6/month
Rated
-
Secure Privacy logo

Secure Privacy

Legal

Consent management and website privacy compliance priced per domain by monthly consent volume

From
Free
Rated
-

The short version

  • Only Secure Privacy has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: IVPN has no free tier, unlike several consumer VPN competitors with limited free plans.; Secure Privacy consent allowances are the real constraint and they are per domain, so a high traffic site on the Business tier can burn through 50,000 consents well before month end and be pushed to a tier that costs more than four times as much.
  • They diverge on capability: IVPN covers Anonymous account numbers, Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which IVPN and Secure Privacy actually diverge.

Attributes where IVPN and Secure Privacy differ
AttributeIVPNSecure Privacy
Starting price$6/monthFree
Pricing modelsubscriptionPer domain per month by consent volume
Free tierNoYes
Platformswindows, mac, linux, ios, androidWeb
CategoryCybersecurityLegal

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in IVPN

  • Anonymous account numbers
  • Multi-hop connections
  • Independent audits
  • WireGuard and OpenVPN support
  • AntiTracker

Only in Secure Privacy

  • Cookie scanning
  • Automatic cookie blocking
  • Legal templates
  • Data subject access requests
  • IAB TCF 2.3
  • Cross-domain consent
  • Scan behind login
  • Audit logs and SSO

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

IVPN

  • Signing up for a VPN without providing an email addressnot Secure Privacy
  • Verifying a VPN's no-logs claims via independent auditsnot Secure Privacy
  • Layering multi-hop routing for higher-anonymity browsingnot Secure Privacy
  • Blocking trackers and ads via built-in AntiTrackernot Secure Privacy

Secure Privacy

  • A mid-sized ecommerce site that wants published pricing it can budget against rather than an enterprise quote cyclenot IVPN
  • An agency running consent across many client domains that needs branding removed and per-domain billingnot IVPN
  • A company that needs both a consent banner and maintained privacy and cookie policy templates without retaining a law firmnot IVPN
  • A business receiving occasional deletion and access requests that wants them tracked in the same tool rather than in a shared inboxnot IVPN

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

IVPN

  • Has no free tier, unlike several consumer VPN competitors with limited free plans.
  • Standard plan's two-connection limit is lower than many rivals offering five or more devices.
  • Smaller server network than large mainstream VPN providers, which can limit streaming unblocking.
  • Pricing is higher than budget VPN competitors for comparable simultaneous-connection counts.

Secure Privacy

  • Consent allowances are the real constraint and they are per domain, so a high traffic site on the Business tier can burn through 50,000 consents well before month end and be pushed to a tier that costs more than four times as much.
  • Billing is per domain, which makes multi-brand organisations and agencies pay linearly with domain count even when the configuration is identical across all of them.
  • There is no data discovery or records of processing at enterprise depth, so it documents website consent rather than a privacy programme, and organisations facing a regulator will still need something more.
  • Automatic cookie blocking is not available on the free tier, so the free plan cannot deliver the compliance behaviour that is the reason to install a consent tool in the first place.
  • Single sign-on and audit logs appear only on the 249 dollar Advanced tier, which puts basic enterprise access control behind a per-domain price that is punishing for anyone with more than a couple of sites.

Pricing, plan by plan

IVPN

$6/month
  • Standard$6/month
    • 2 simultaneous connections
    • $60/year billed annually
    • WireGuard and OpenVPN support
  • Pro$10/month
    • 7 simultaneous connections
    • Multi-hop connections
    • $100/year billed annually

Secure Privacy

Free
  • FreeFree
    • Up to 10 domains
    • 500 consents per month
    • 1 legal template
  • Small$15/month
    • Per domain
    • Unlimited domains
    • 5,000 consents per month
  • Business$59/month
    • Per domain
    • 50,000 consents per month
    • Over 40 legal templates
  • Advanced$249/month
    • Per domain
    • 5 million consents per month
    • Audit logs

Which should you pick?

Choose IVPN if

  • You need anonymous account numbers.
  • You work on windows, mac, linux, ios, android.
  • You also want multi-hop connections.

Choose Secure Privacy if

  • You need cookie scanning.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You also want automatic cookie blocking.

Questions people ask

Is IVPN or Secure Privacy better?
Neither clearly leads. IVPN starts at $6/month and Secure Privacy at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, IVPN or Secure Privacy?
Secure Privacy has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $6/month for IVPN and Free for Secure Privacy.
Does IVPN or Secure Privacy run on more platforms?
IVPN runs on windows, mac, linux, ios, android. Secure Privacy runs on Web.
Can I use Secure Privacy for free?
Yes. Secure Privacy has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. IVPN starts at $6/month.
What is IVPN best used for?
IVPN is most often used for signing up for a vpn without providing an email address, verifying a vpn's no-logs claims via independent audits, layering multi-hop routing for higher-anonymity browsing, blocking trackers and ads via built-in antitracker. Of those, signing up for a vpn without providing an email address and verifying a vpn's no-logs claims via independent audits are not what Secure Privacy is typically brought in for.
What can IVPN do that Secure Privacy cannot?
IVPN covers Anonymous account numbers, Multi-hop connections, Independent audits, WireGuard and OpenVPN support. Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning, Automatic cookie blocking, Legal templates, Data subject access requests.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Secure Privacy: What is a consent, for billing purposes?

A recorded consent decision from a visitor. Because returning visitors can re-consent, consent counts do not map cleanly to unique visitors, and this is the most common source of unexpected tier upgrades.

Secure Privacy: Is the free plan usable?

For evaluation only. It caps at 500 consents a month and does not include automatic cookie blocking.

Secure Privacy: Does it handle data subject requests?

Yes, from the Business tier at 59 US dollars per domain per month. The Small tier does not include it.

Secure Privacy: Can it replace OneTrust?

For website consent and simple request handling, yes. For data discovery, records of processing and vendor risk, no.

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