Remove Mullvad Leta

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Why should this tool be removed?

Mullvad Leta is being removed on 27th November 2025. We published a blog post about this today.

Source: Mullvad employee.

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Will the default search be DDG on the Mullvad browser going forward then?

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This is sad to see, I liked using Leta.

The search industry continues to undergo big changes. Leta will not be able to follow and will likely become less useful over time.

It would be nice if they’d elaborated on this point more. I assume it’s AI search related but would have liked to hear from them how that all ties in. Perhaps the real reason is that the API queries were getting expensive.

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Not surprised by this. Mullvad Leta was always more of a side project for the company anyways. It was too expensive to maintain something that is being subsidized by VPN subscriptions anyways.

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Really sad to see this. I am wondering whether they received a cease-and-desist order from one of the companies and/or a copyright holder.

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What?

They shut down on 27th Nov.

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I misread as Nov 7 lol

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To my knowledge, albeit lacking, I don’t believe cost was a concern. Moreso the distraction away from the core business, which the blog post mentioned.

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At least from my perspective, they were just stating that there isn’t really a use for Leta and will focus more on their two other products. What I speculated on didn’t really conflict with that, but then again I am just speculating here based on what we know on how Mullvad funds their non-VPN products. None of us really knows.

It could be possible that whoever is spearheading Leta realized that there was not much of a use for it compared to DDG and Brave. Why spend time and money working on leta when the real gap can be found through a VPN-oriented browser?

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They use official paid APIs.

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I wonder if all the extra compute required for the AI instant answers and related ML features might be causing API pricing to increase significantly.

I’m disappointed to see Leta being discontinued (I literally just recommended it to a friend yesterday), but if it helps Mullvad stay more focused on their core mission, and products, or leads to a greater focus on MB, I think that’d be a very acceptable tradeoff (especially if it helps bring Mullvad Browser ‘persistent mode’ to fruition more quickly.

MB w/ a persistent and an ephemeral (the current default) mode seems like it’d be a gamechanger. It’ll be much easier to recommend MB to a broader audience, and possibly-maybe-hopefully cut down on the repetitive “Why doesn’t PG recommend librewolf” forum posts (and also make projects like Arkenfox a lot more optional (though still appealing to DIYers and browser geeks)

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And the ability to atleast install a password manager extension. That’s all I want for proper daily usability with all that you mentioned (which is on its way).

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approved the change update: Remove Mullvad Leta by friadev ¡ Pull Request #3165 ¡ privacyguides/privacyguides.org ¡ GitHub

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Yes

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Great! Thanks for the update.

It would be cool if they gave users the option to add a Kagi Session Link so you can keep using your Kagi account for search even with the ephemeral nature of Mullvad.

Wishful thinking on my end. But its stuff like this and such “niche” unique features that will set Mullvad apart to a new breed of browsers without any AI that’s highly privacy respecting while being fingerprint resistant.

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PR marked as solution has been merged and this change will appear in the website’s next release