AirVPN vs Surfshark

AirVPN and Surfshark both list 23 countries. 0 countries are listed only by AirVPN, and 77 only by Surfshark.¹

What our measurements show

Of the 23 countries both providers list, our measurements confirm the listed country for AirVPN in 20 of them and for Surfshark in 22. In the rest, no location has been measured yet, or the measurement does not allow a conclusion.
For 1 of Surfshark's 142 measured locations, the server is outside the listed country. Measurements on two days showed this, and Surfshark's list does not mark any of them as virtual.
At 15 of Surfshark's measured locations, the server is outside the listed country. Surfshark's own list marks each one as virtual, so the list tells you this itself.
Surfshark's list shows which locations are virtual: 47 of 142. AirVPN's list has no such field, so it does not tell you whether any of its locations are virtual.
In 11 of the 23 countries both list, servers of both providers are in the same network, for example M247 in Belgium. In those countries, switching to the other provider does not get you a different network.

From our own data: the server lists we read, our measurements, and our check of each home page. Apps, speed, and streaming are not tested.²

AirVPN
Surfshark

Metric	AirVPN	Surfshark
Countries	23	100
Countries not listed only as virtual	–	54
Locations	39	142
Servers listed	250	142
Marked as virtual	–	33 %
Measured	39	142
Matches the country	28	71
Server outside the country	0	16
Networks	14	19
Locations in shared networks	95 %	54 %
In Fourteen Eyes countries	67 %	39 %
Third-party services loaded	–	8
Advertising or analytics services among them	–	6
Lowest price per month	not collected	$2.49
Per month after the initial term	not collected	$8.25
Server list source	a list the provider documents	a public list the provider does not document

A dash: not in the list, or not collected yet.³

Country by country

Each row is a country both providers list where at least one of them has a measured location or both use the same network. The status comes from our own measurement of the server address each provider publishes. “Within … km” means the server is at most that far from the listed country.

Country	AirVPN	Surfshark	Same network⁴
Austria	matches the country within 52 km	matches the country within 74 km	no shared network
Belgium	matches the country within 19 km	matches the country matches the country within 10 km 2 locations	M247
Brazil	no conclusion possible	matches the country within 31 km	no shared network
Bulgaria	matches the country within 103 km	matches the country within 37 km	M247
Canada	matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible within 142 km 3 locations	matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible within 37 km 3 locations	no shared network
Czechia	matches the country within 52 km	matches the country within 61 km	M247
Estonia	matches the country within 116 km	no conclusion possible	no shared network
Germany	matches the country matches the country within 336 km 2 locations	matches the country matches the country within 322 km 2 locations	no shared network
Ireland	matches the country within 65 km	matches the country within 121 km	M247
Japan	matches the country within 71 km	matches the country within 28 km	M247
Latvia	matches the country within 82 km	matches the country within 99 km	no shared network
Netherlands	matches the country matches the country within 107 km 2 locations	matches the country within 82 km	no shared network
New Zealand	matches the country within 92 km	matches the country within 21 km	no shared network
Norway	matches the country within 178 km	matches the country within 52 km	no shared network
Romania	matches the country within 42 km	matches the country within 929 km	M247
Serbia	matches the country within 22 km	matches the country within 7 km	M247
Singapore	matches the country within 85 km	matches the country within 68 km	M247
Spain	matches the country matches the country within 44 km 2 locations	matches the country matches the country matches the country within 44 km 3 locations	M247
Sweden	matches the country within 51 km	matches the country within 20 km	no shared network
Switzerland	no conclusion possible	matches the country within 14 km	no shared network
Taiwan	no conclusion possible	matches the country within 13 km	no shared network
United Kingdom	matches the country matches the country within 68 km 2 locations	matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country within 214 km 4 locations	M247
United States	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country within 81 km 11 locations	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country no conclusion possible no conclusion possible within 21 km 24 locations	M247