OVPN vs Surfshark

OVPN and Surfshark both list 20 countries. 0 countries are listed only by OVPN, and 80 only by Surfshark.¹

What our measurements show

Of the 20 countries both providers list, our measurements confirm the listed country for OVPN in 20 of them and for Surfshark in 20. 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. OVPN's list has no such field, so it does not tell you whether any of its locations are virtual.
In 11 of the 20 countries both list, servers of both providers are in the same network, for example CDNEXT in Germany. In those countries, switching to the other provider does not get you a different network.
When opened as a first-time visitor, OVPN's home page loads 1 advertising or analytics services and Surfshark's loads 6, before anything is clicked.

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

OVPN
Surfshark

Metric	OVPN	Surfshark
Countries	20	100
Countries not listed only as virtual	–	54
Locations	32	142
Servers listed	96	142
Marked as virtual	–	33 %
Measured	32	142
Matches the country	24	71
Server outside the country	0	16
Networks	7	19
Locations in shared networks	94 %	54 %
In Fourteen Eyes countries	75 %	39 %
Third-party services loaded	4	8
Advertising or analytics services among them	1	6
Lowest price per month	$4.22	$2.49
Per month after the initial term	not stated	$8.25
Server list source	a public list the provider does not document	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	OVPN	Surfshark	Same network⁴
Australia	matches the country within 31 km	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country within 29 km 5 locations	no shared network
Austria	matches the country within 26 km	matches the country within 74 km	no shared network
Canada	matches the country within 44 km	matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible within 37 km 3 locations	no shared network
Denmark	matches the country within 201 km	matches the country within 24 km	M247
Finland	matches the country within 84 km	matches the country within 66 km	no shared network
France	matches the country within 683 km	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country within 684 km 3 locations	M247
Germany	matches the country matches the country matches the country within 325 km 3 locations	matches the country matches the country within 322 km 2 locations	CDNEXT
Italy	matches the country within 744 km	matches the country matches the country within 18 km 2 locations	no shared network
Japan	matches the country within 43 km	matches the country within 28 km	M247
Netherlands	matches the country within 85 km	matches the country within 82 km	no shared network
Norway	matches the country within 288 km	matches the country within 52 km	no shared network
Poland	matches the country within 94 km	matches the country matches the country within 92 km 2 locations	CDNEXT
Romania	matches the country within 40 km	matches the country within 929 km	M247
Singapore	matches the country within 76 km	matches the country within 68 km	M247
Spain	matches the country within 42 km	matches the country matches the country matches the country within 44 km 3 locations	M247
Sweden	no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country matches the country within 32 km 4 locations	matches the country within 20 km	no shared network
Switzerland	matches the country within 24 km	matches the country within 14 km	no shared network
Ukraine	matches the country within 29 km	matches the country within 19 km	CDNEXT
United Kingdom	matches the country within 64 km	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 no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible within 39 km 8 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	CDNEXT, M247

Countries listed by both providers or by only one of them

Countries listed by OVPN or Surfshark

listed by both: 20 (20 %)
only OVPN: 0 (0 %)
only Surfshark: 80 (80 %)

only Surfshark (80)

Networks both use

2 networks host locations from both OVPN and Surfshark.⁴

CDNEXT
M247

OVPN or Surfshark: questions and answers

Which is better, OVPN or Surfshark?

This site does not pick a winner: which one fits depends on what matters to you. OVPN lists 20 countries, Surfshark lists 100. OVPN's pricing page promises a refund within 10 days, Surfshark's within 30 days.

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