hide.me vs IVPN

hide.me and IVPN both list 41 countries. 16 countries are listed only by hide.me, and 1 only by IVPN.¹

What our measurements show

41 countries are in both lists. Our measurements confirm the listed country for hide.me in 39 of them and for IVPN in 40. In the rest, no location has been measured yet, or the measurement does not allow a conclusion.
For 2 of hide.me's 64 measured locations, the server is outside the listed country. Measurements on two days showed this, and hide.me's list does not mark any of them as virtual.
Neither list has a field for virtual locations, so the lists do not tell you whether either provider uses any.
In 7 of the 41 countries both list, servers of both providers are in the same network, for example Datacamp Limited in Germany. In those countries, switching to the other provider does not get you a different network.
Neither home page loads advertising or analytics services on a first visit.

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

hide.me
IVPN

Metric	hide.me	IVPN
Countries	57	42
Countries not listed only as virtual	–	–
Locations	64	59
Servers listed	64	89
Marked as virtual	–	–
Measured	64	59
Matches the country	58	47
Server outside the country	2	0
Networks	17	22
Locations in shared networks	86 %	95 %
In Fourteen Eyes countries	30 %	53 %
Third-party services loaded	0	0
Advertising or analytics services among them	0	0
Lowest price per month	£2.50	$5.00
Per month after the initial term	£2.50	not stated
Server list source	a public list the provider does not document	the list the provider's own published tools read

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

Country by country

Each row is a country that both providers list. In each of them, at least one provider 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	hide.me	IVPN	Same network⁴
Argentina	matches the country within 209 km	matches the country within 209 km	no shared network
Australia	matches the country within 983 km	matches the country within 25 km	no shared network
Austria	matches the country within 78 km	matches the country within 36 km	no shared network
Belgium	matches the country within 24 km	matches the country within 15 km	no shared network
Brazil	matches the country within 60 km	matches the country within 41 km	no shared network
Bulgaria	matches the country within 41 km	matches the country within 67 km	no shared network
Canada	matches the country within 83 km	no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country within 57 km 3 locations	no shared network
Croatia	matches the country within 6 km	matches the country within 22 km	Datacamp Limited
Czechia	matches the country within 65 km	matches the country within 53 km	no shared network
Denmark	matches the country within 667 km	matches the country within 329 km	no shared network
Finland	matches the country matches the country within 34 km 2 locations	matches the country within 42 km	no shared network
France	matches the country matches the country within 407 km 2 locations	matches the country within 419 km	Datacamp Limited
Germany	matches the country matches the country within 26 km 2 locations	matches the country within 333 km	Datacamp Limited
Greece	matches the country within 79 km	matches the country within 93 km	no shared network
Hong Kong SAR China	matches the country within 97 km	matches the country within 120 km	no shared network
Hungary	matches the country within 30 km	matches the country within 33 km	M247 Europe SRL
Iceland	matches the country within 28 km	no conclusion possible	no shared network
Ireland	matches the country within 33 km	matches the country within 50 km	no shared network
Italy	no conclusion possible	matches the country within 48 km	no shared network
Japan	matches the country within 64 km	matches the country within 145 km	no shared network
Luxembourg	matches the country within 957 km	matches the country within 154 km	no shared network
Malaysia	matches the country within 332 km	matches the country within 523 km	no shared network
Mexico	matches the country within 55 km	matches the country within 101 km	Datacamp Limited
Netherlands	matches the country matches the country within 93 km 2 locations	matches the country within 18 km	Datacamp Limited
New Zealand	matches the country within 31 km	matches the country within 22 km	no shared network
Norway	matches the country within 51 km	matches the country within 180 km	no shared network
Peru	matches the country within 36 km	matches the country within 29 km	Datacamp Limited
Poland	matches the country within 124 km	matches the country within 101 km	no shared network
Portugal	matches the country within 553 km	matches the country within 79 km	no shared network
Romania	matches the country within 865 km	matches the country within 27 km	no shared network
Serbia	matches the country within 26 km	matches the country within 30 km	no shared network
Singapore	matches the country within 83 km	matches the country within 80 km	no shared network
Slovakia	matches the country within 55 km	matches the country within 51 km	no shared network
South Africa	matches the country within 123 km	matches the country within 117 km	no shared network
Spain	matches the country within 49 km	matches the country within 50 km	no shared network
Sweden	matches the country within 59 km	matches the country within 38 km	no shared network
Switzerland	matches the country matches the country within 19 km 2 locations	matches the country within 141 km	no shared network
Taiwan	matches the country within 32 km	matches the country within 385 km	no shared network
Ukraine	matches the country within 24 km	matches the country within 56 km	no shared network
United Kingdom	matches the country matches the country within 204 km 2 locations	matches the country matches the country within 209 km 2 locations	no shared network
United States	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible 2 locations	no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible matches the country no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible no conclusion possible within 54 km 15 locations	no shared network

Countries listed by both providers or by only one of them

Countries listed by hide.me or IVPN

listed by both: 41 (71 %)
only hide.me: 16 (28 %)
only IVPN: 1 (2 %)

only hide.me (16)

only IVPN (1)

Israel

Networks both use

2 networks host locations from both hide.me and IVPN.⁴

Datacamp Limited
M247 Europe SRL

hide.me or IVPN: questions and answers

Which is better, hide.me or IVPN?

This site does not pick a winner: which one fits depends on what matters to you. hide.me lists 57 countries, IVPN lists 42. hide.me's pricing page promises a refund within 30 days, IVPN's within 30 days. hide.me is based in Malaysia, IVPN in Gibraltar.

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Which is cheaper, hide.me or IVPN?

hide.me starts at £2.50 and IVPN at $5.00 per month for the initial term. The prices are in different currencies or were requested from different countries, so they cannot be compared directly.

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