hide.me vs Proton VPN

hide.me and Proton VPN both list 57 countries. 0 countries are listed only by hide.me, and 92 only by Proton VPN.¹

What our measurements show

Proton VPN's list gives no server addresses, so none of its locations can be measured. The measurements on this page cover only hide.me.
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.
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
Proton VPN

Metric	hide.me	Proton VPN
Countries	57	149
Countries not listed only as virtual	–	–
Locations	64	195
Servers listed	64	18,744
Marked as virtual	–	–
Measured	64	–
Matches the country	58	–
Server outside the country	2	–
Networks	17	–
Locations in shared networks	86 %	–
In Fourteen Eyes countries	30 %	27 %
Third-party services loaded	0	0
Advertising or analytics services among them	0	0
Lowest price per month	$2.50	$3.49
Per month after the initial term	$2.50	$6.99
Server list source	a public list the provider does not document	a page on the provider's website

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	Proton VPN	Same network⁴
Albania	matches the country within 51 km	not measurable	no shared network
Argentina	matches the country within 209 km	not measurable	no shared network
Australia	matches the country within 983 km	not measurable 5 locations	no shared network
Austria	matches the country within 78 km	not measurable	no shared network
Bangladesh	matches the country within 47 km	not measurable	no shared network
Belgium	matches the country within 24 km	not measurable	no shared network
Brazil	matches the country within 60 km	not measurable	no shared network
Bulgaria	matches the country within 41 km	not measurable	no shared network
Cambodia	server outside the country	not measurable	no shared network
Canada	matches the country within 83 km	not measurable 3 locations	no shared network
Chile	matches the country within 107 km	not measurable	no shared network
Colombia	matches the country within 67 km	not measurable	no shared network
Croatia	matches the country within 6 km	not measurable	no shared network
Czechia	matches the country within 65 km	not measurable	no shared network
Denmark	matches the country within 667 km	not measurable	no shared network
Egypt	no conclusion possible	not measurable	no shared network
Finland	matches the country matches the country within 34 km 2 locations	not measurable	no shared network
France	matches the country matches the country within 407 km 2 locations	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Germany	matches the country matches the country within 26 km 2 locations	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Greece	matches the country within 79 km	not measurable	no shared network
Hong Kong SAR China	matches the country within 97 km	not measurable	no shared network
Hungary	matches the country within 30 km	not measurable	no shared network
Iceland	matches the country within 28 km	not measurable	no shared network
Indonesia	matches the country within 87 km	not measurable	no shared network
Ireland	matches the country within 33 km	not measurable	no shared network
Italy	no conclusion possible	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Japan	matches the country within 64 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Lithuania	matches the country within 22 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Luxembourg	matches the country within 957 km	not measurable	no shared network
Malaysia	matches the country within 332 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Mexico	matches the country within 55 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Moldova	matches the country within 64 km	not measurable	no shared network
Morocco	server outside the country	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Netherlands	matches the country matches the country within 93 km 2 locations	not measurable	no shared network
New Zealand	matches the country within 31 km	not measurable	no shared network
Norway	matches the country within 51 km	not measurable	no shared network
Peru	matches the country within 36 km	not measurable	no shared network
Philippines	matches the country within 196 km	not measurable	no shared network
Poland	matches the country within 124 km	not measurable	no shared network
Portugal	matches the country within 553 km	not measurable	no shared network
Romania	matches the country within 865 km	not measurable	no shared network
Serbia	matches the country within 26 km	not measurable	no shared network
Singapore	matches the country within 83 km	not measurable	no shared network
Slovakia	matches the country within 55 km	not measurable	no shared network
South Africa	matches the country within 123 km	not measurable	no shared network
South Korea	matches the country within 213 km	not measurable	no shared network
Spain	matches the country within 49 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Sweden	matches the country within 59 km	not measurable	no shared network
Switzerland	matches the country matches the country within 19 km 2 locations	not measurable	no shared network
Taiwan	matches the country within 32 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
Thailand	matches the country within 525 km	not measurable	no shared network
Türkiye	matches the country within 114 km	not measurable	no shared network
Ukraine	matches the country within 24 km	not measurable	no shared network
United Arab Emirates	matches the country within 27 km	not measurable 2 locations	no shared network
United Kingdom	matches the country matches the country within 204 km 2 locations	not measurable 6 locations	no shared network
United States	no conclusion possible no conclusion possible 2 locations	not measurable 22 locations	no shared network
Vietnam	matches the country within 34 km	not measurable	no shared network

Countries listed by both providers or by only one of them

Countries listed by hide.me or Proton VPN

listed by both: 57 (38 %)
only hide.me: 0 (0 %)
only Proton VPN: 92 (62 %)

only Proton VPN (92)

Networks both use

No known network hosts locations from both hide.me and Proton VPN.

hide.me or Proton VPN: questions and answers

Which is better, hide.me or Proton VPN?

This site does not pick a winner: which one fits depends on what matters to you. hide.me lists 57 countries, Proton VPN lists 149. hide.me's pricing page promises a refund within 30 days, Proton VPN's within 30 days. hide.me is based in Malaysia, Proton VPN in Switzerland.

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Which is cheaper, hide.me or Proton VPN?

Both state prices in the same currency: hide.me starts at $2.50 and Proton VPN at $3.49 per month for the initial term. After the initial term, hide.me costs $2.50 and Proton VPN $6.99 per month.

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