VPN & Proxy Detection — Sweden

Detect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Sweden

Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Sweden. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.

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400+Device + network signals

The Swedish Threat Landscape

Why Sweden traffic needs special scrutiny

Datacenter ASN concentration

Sweden is Mullvad VPN headquarters and a high concentration of privacy-focused VPN exit nodes via Bahnhof and FS Data.

Residential proxy resale

Consumer ISP ranges in Sweden can appear in commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools. A consumer ISP label is not proof of fraud; combine it with device, session, and routing signals.

VPN exit-node clustering

The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in Sweden. Sentinel maintains live mappings of these ranges so a new IP from a known VPN ASN is flagged within seconds of going live.

Antidetect browser usage

Multi-accounting fraud against Swedish-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Sentinel scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.

How Sentinel Helps

What Sentinel detects for Sweden traffic

Every major VPN provider's Swedish exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
Commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools using consumer Swedish IPs
Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Swedish geolocations
Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Sweden
Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Sweden but the network telemetry says otherwise

Local Context

VPN use & data rules in Sweden

Sweden applies the GDPR under IMY (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten), and fraud-prevention scoring of Swedish visitors fits squarely within legitimate interest. Sweden's risk profile is shaped by near-total digital payment adoption — Swish transfers and BankID-gated services dominate — which pushes fraud toward account takeover and social engineering rather than card testing. Swedish users are privacy-aware, with meaningful consumer VPN adoption (Mullvad is Swedish), so VPN flags deserve review-not-block treatment, while automation signals against BankID-adjacent flows deserve immediate scrutiny.

5-Minute Integration

One API call. Bearer token. Done.

        // Score any session — country-level signals included

        const r = await fetch('https://sntlhq.com/v1/evaluate', {

          method: 'POST',

          headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...' },

          body: JSON.stringify({ token: sentinelToken })

        });

        const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();

        if (country === 'SE' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();

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