NordBastion vs Privex.
Onion-and-eepsite, or four Nordic shields.

Privex is a privacy-focused VPS and dedicated server provider operating from data centres in Germany, the United States and Sweden. They run their own Tor onion mirror and an I2P eepsite, use an in-house cryptocurrency processor (no third-party billing middleware) and have a long-standing presence in the Hive blockchain community.

At the headline promo tier Privex advertises plans from $0.99/month — usually a short promotional VPS with very small specifications. Their real entry plans start around $8/month. NordBastion's Sentinel is $5.90/month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB, which is cheaper than Privex's standard entry tier on both axes.

Privex publishes both a Tor onion service and an I2P eepsite for accessing their site over anonymous networks. NordBastion does not currently publish either; the clearnet site is Tor-friendly with no special-case rate-limiting or anti-Tor blocking, but there is no v3 onion mirror or I2P endpoint today. If onion-only or I2P-only operation is your hard requirement, Privex meets it and NordBastion does not.

Both accept a broad crypto basket. Privex operates an in-house crypto payment processor and accepts Bitcoin, Hive, Litecoin, Monero and others without going through a third-party PSP. NordBastion accepts twelve cryptocurrencies across multiple processors and exposes that count publicly. Neither requires KYC for crypto payments.

Privex operates from Germany, the United States and Sweden — three regions, two of which (Germany, USA) sit under legal regimes that are less aligned with constitutional press-freedom narratives than the Nordics. NordBastion operates from four Nordic bastions only, all under constitutional press-freedom regimes (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland). Privex's Sweden plan and NordBastion's Stockholm plan share a jurisdiction; the other regions diverge.

NordBastion. Our top VPS tier reaches 24 vCPU and 64 GB; our top dedicated tier is dual-EPYC with 256 cores total and 2 TB ECC RAM. Privex tops out at lower spec ceilings on both VPS and dedicated.

Both do. NordBastion runs five dedicated tiers from $99/month to $1,099/month, fully automated, provisioned in about 30 minutes. Privex sells dedicated servers up to around $650/month with comparable turn-around times.

Pick Privex if your priorities are Tor-onion-only or I2P-eepsite-only access to the host, an in-house crypto processor, or a presence in the Hive blockchain community. Pick NordBastion if you want strict Nordic constitutional jurisdiction on every server, a wider spec ceiling, twelve cryptocurrencies and lower entry pricing.