{"rid":"egress/nordvpn","card":{"rid":"egress/nordvpn","eid":"nordvpn","topic":"egress","slug":"nordvpn","provider":"NordVPN","url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","domain":"nordvpn.com","category":"vpn port forward","tier":"paid","verdict":"fails-egress","vorder":5,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"cli","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No free tier, and no forwarding on the standard product: Unfortunately, at the current moment, we do not offer port forwarding, as multiple customers are usi...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":3},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"nordvpn","provider":"NordVPN","url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","category":"vpn port forward","tier":"paid","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier, and no forwarding on the standard product: Unfortunately, at the current moment, we do not offer port forwarding, as multiple customers are using the same servers.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"unverified: no page read states a NordVPN traffic allowance. ingress: none","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding"},"interface":["cli"],"interface_detail":"Official app and Linux CLI; no port API.","tooling":"NordLynx and community .conf extractors for outbound; no port facility without the add-on.","chaining":"Client-side tunnel only unless the Dedicated Server is bought.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"forwarding only on a Dedicated Server, which is a rented machine rather than a shared VPN endpoint: Port forwarding is available exclusively with the Dedicated Server add-on. Standard NordVPN servers and Dedicated IP do not support port forwarding.","source":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/46022896056593-How-to-configure-port-forwarding-on-your-NordVPN-Dedicated-Server"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"On the shared product there is no inbound path; on the Dedicated Server there is, but that is a rented server with its own provisioning step, so the gate is commercial rather than technical.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"unverified: the purchase flow was not read; an account is required.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"No inbound path on the shared fleet; the Dedicated Server is a dedicated machine with its own reliability profile, which did not read.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both sentences are the vendor's support pages read today. The Dedicated Server path was established from the support article's own text, not from the add-on's price, which was not read.","evidence":[{"url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19483392309649-Does-NordVPN-offer-port-forwarding","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"NordVPN does not offer port forwarding on standard service because multiple customers share servers."},{"url":"https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/46022896056593-How-to-configure-port-forwarding-on-your-NordVPN-Dedicated-Server","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Forwarding exists only with the Dedicated Server add-on, not on standard servers or Dedicated IP; settings appear during provisioning."}],"verdict":"fails-egress","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"unverified: no plan price was read","notes":"Three candidates for a provider that both denies and documents forwarding: (1) the denial covers the shared fleet and the documentation covers a rented machine, confirmed, since both sentences are on the same support site and the second explicitly excludes standard servers; (2) the feature is region-limited, not supported by anything read; (3) the denial is stale, refuted because it sits beside a current article that says the same thing more precisely. The useful finding is that NordVPN sells ingress as a server, which prices it out's class.","extras":{"wg_path":"extractable","wg_detail":"NordLynx is the vendor's WireGuard build, and .conf extractors exist in the community; the tunnel is real but there is nothing to forward into, so a config does not pass the ingress test. The only forwarding path the vendor documents is a separate Dedicated Server product: Port forwarding is available exclusively with the Dedicated Server add-on. Standard NordVPN servers and Dedicated IP do not support port forwarding.","ingress":"none","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"unverified: no page read states a NordVPN traffic allowance.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"Outbound only from the client's point of view on the shared fleet."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}