Privex, comparedThe same instinct, a smaller estate, less on the record.

Privex takes privacy seriously and takes crypto natively, which is more than most of this market manages. The differences are the size of the catalogue and how much is written down where a buyer can read it.

7 minute read · Their pages last read 30 juillet 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Privex

Where: Sweden, Netherlands
Site: privex.io

What they are genuinely good at

Crypto-native from the beginning rather than bolted on to a card-first business.
A clear privacy position and signup that asks for very little.
European locations with sensible connectivity for European traffic.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 juillet 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	Privex	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	Published	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	Published	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	Not published	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Not published	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Partly	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Partly	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Not published	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	Partly	Published

On nine of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

Two European locations, one company

Sweden and the Netherlands are both good places to serve European traffic from, and both are outside the reach of a US notice. Held by one company, they are reachable by one court.

That is the structural difference this whole section keeps returning to, and it is the one thing about this estate that is genuinely hard to copy: eight companies, one per jurisdiction, each on its own country’s register.

Growing out of a virtual machine

If a project needs bare metal, a GPU by the hour, a private cloud or a rack, a small VPS catalogue means changing supplier, and changing supplier means a migration and a second policy to read.

The whole catalogue here is on one page and it all sits on one account, one balance and one acceptable use policy.

Questions people actually ask

Is a small host worse?

No. It is usually more responsive and often more principled. What it cannot easily carry is a published record that has to be maintained every quarter, and eight legal entities that have to be filed for.

Can I test before moving?

Yes. Every price is published, a virtual machine is live in about fifty-five seconds, and there is a 72-hour refund if it is not what you wanted.

Buy theirs instead if

A virtual machine in Europe paid in crypto is the requirement, complete.
You prefer a small operator and will accept less documentation for it.
The specific assets they accept suit how you hold value.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue