hide.me vs OVPN

hide.me and OVPN both list 20 countries. 37 countries are listed only by hide.me, and 0 only by OVPN.¹

What our measurements show

20 countries are in both lists. Our measurements confirm the listed country for hide.me in 18 of them and for OVPN in 20. 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 2 of the 20 countries both list, servers of both providers are in the same network, for example Datacamp Limited in Poland. In those countries, switching to the other provider does not get you a different network.
On a first visit, hide.me's home page loads 0 advertising or analytics services and OVPN's loads 1, 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

hide.me
OVPN

Metric	hide.me	OVPN
Countries	57	20
Countries not listed only as virtual	–	–
Locations	64	32
Servers listed	64	96
Marked as virtual	–	–
Measured	64	32
Matches the country	58	24
Server outside the country	2	0
Networks	17	7
Locations in shared networks	86 %	94 %
In Fourteen Eyes countries	30 %	75 %
Third-party services loaded	0	4
Advertising or analytics services among them	0	1
Lowest price per month	£2.50	$4.22
Per month after the initial term	£2.50	not stated
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 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	OVPN	Same network⁴
Australia	matches the country within 983 km	matches the country within 31 km	no shared network
Austria	matches the country within 78 km	matches the country within 26 km	no shared network
Canada	matches the country within 83 km	matches the country within 44 km	no shared network
Denmark	matches the country within 667 km	matches the country within 201 km	no shared network
Finland	matches the country matches the country within 34 km 2 locations	matches the country within 84 km	no shared network
France	matches the country matches the country within 407 km 2 locations	matches the country within 683 km	no shared network
Germany	matches the country matches the country within 26 km 2 locations	matches the country matches the country matches the country within 325 km 3 locations	no shared network
Italy	no conclusion possible	matches the country within 744 km	no shared network
Japan	matches the country within 64 km	matches the country within 43 km	no shared network
Netherlands	matches the country matches the country within 93 km 2 locations	matches the country within 85 km	no shared network
Norway	matches the country within 51 km	matches the country within 288 km	no shared network
Poland	matches the country within 124 km	matches the country within 94 km	Datacamp Limited
Romania	matches the country within 865 km	matches the country within 40 km	no shared network
Singapore	matches the country within 83 km	matches the country within 76 km	no shared network
Spain	matches the country within 49 km	matches the country within 42 km	no shared network
Sweden	matches the country within 59 km	no conclusion possible matches the country matches the country matches the country within 32 km 4 locations	no shared network
Switzerland	matches the country matches the country within 19 km 2 locations	matches the country within 24 km	no shared network
Ukraine	matches the country within 24 km	matches the country within 29 km	Datacamp Limited
United Kingdom	matches the country matches the country within 204 km 2 locations	matches the country within 64 km	no shared network
United States	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible 2 locations	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 shared network

Countries listed by both providers or by only one of them

Countries listed by hide.me or OVPN

listed by both: 20 (35 %)
only hide.me: 37 (65 %)
only OVPN: 0 (0 %)

only hide.me (37)

Networks both use

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

Datacamp Limited
M247 Europe SRL

hide.me or OVPN: questions and answers

Which is better, hide.me or OVPN?

This site does not pick a winner: which one fits depends on what matters to you. hide.me lists 57 countries, OVPN lists 20. hide.me's pricing page promises a refund within 30 days, OVPN's within 10 days.

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Which is cheaper, hide.me or OVPN?

hide.me starts at £2.50 and OVPN at $4.22 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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