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| Total Hours of Testing | 30,000+ |
| Weekly Speed Tests | 3,000+ |
| VPN Services Reviewed | 55 |
| Streaming Platforms Tested Daily | 12 |
| IP & DNS Leak Tests Performed | 9,500+ |
| How Much We've Spent On Testing | $25,000+ |
Hide.me is one of the oldest and most popular VPNs on the market. It is owned by a Malaysian company called eVenture Ltd, and it’s available as both a paid and free VPN service.
In this review of Hide.me and Hide.me Free, we test both versions in 10 different categories to find out if Hide.me is safe, if it works with Netflix, and whether the free version is actually worth using.
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Watch the video below for a short summary of our Hide.me review and test results:
| Data Cap | Download Speed | Logging Policy | Data Leaks | Jurisdiction | Servers | IP Addresses | Countries With Servers | US Netflix | Torrenting | Simultaneous Connections | Works In China | Support | Cheapest Price | Money-Back Guarantee | Official Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium | Free | |||||||||||||||
| Unlimited | 10GB | |||||||||||||||
| 96Mbps | 1Mbps | |||||||||||||||
| No Identifying Data | No Identifying Data | |||||||||||||||
| No | No | |||||||||||||||
| Malaysia (Privacy Haven) | Malaysia (Privacy Haven) | |||||||||||||||
| 1,800 | Not disclosed | |||||||||||||||
| 7,600+ | Not disclosed | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | |||||||||||||||
| Unlimited | Unlimited | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Yes | No | |||||||||||||||
| Live Chat | Live Chat | |||||||||||||||
| $3.45/mo over 26 months | Free | |||||||||||||||
| 30-day Money-Back Guarantee | - | |||||||||||||||
| Hide.me | ||||||||||||||||
Here’s a table summarizing the information that Hide.me logs:
| Data Type | Logged by Hide.me |
|---|---|
| Browsing Activity | No |
| Device Information | No |
| DNS Queries | No |
| Individual Bandwidth Usage | Yes |
| Individual Connection Timestamps | No |
| ISP | No |
| Number of Simultaneous Connections | No |
| Originating IP Address | No |
| Account Information | Yes |
| VPN Server IP | No |
| VPN Server Location | No |
| Date of Last Connection | No |
Hide.me does not log or sell your sensitive data and your internet activity cannot be traced back to you when using it.
We’ve examined Hide.me’s logging policy and can tell you that Hide.me only logs the email address used to register an account — which is encrypted on secure servers — and the amount of monthly data you use.
When connecting to a Hide.me server, it also maintains a “non-persistent log of connection data.” This means it uses a randomly generated username and an internally-assigned IP address. For added transparency, we’d like Hide.me to be more specific about exactly which types of connection data are stored, and for how long.
This is a safe privacy policy. Crucially, Hide.me does not log any identifiable data, such as your real IP address or the websites you visit. If you terminate your Hide.me account, all data associated with your account is deleted from Hide.me’s systems.
To improve its privacy rating further, we’d like to see Hide.me invest in a fully diskless server network so that data is never stored on physical hardware. This would remove the risk of servers being seized and data extracted.
Furthermore, Hide.me’s servers are rented from third-party hosts. Although Hide.me told us it vets its partners carefully, owning its entire network would elevate its privacy credentials further.
It’s rare that a VPN owns its entire server network, but we have high standards in our privacy assessment, and leading VPNs like IPVanish own 100% of their networks.
You can read Hide.me’s full privacy policy on its website.
In 2015, Hide.me was audited by Leon Juranic of DefenseCode Ltd, which verified its safe logging practices. This was the first independent assessment performed to verify a VPN’s logging policy and trustworthiness.
Certificate awarded to Hide.me from DefenseCode LTD.
The conclusion was that Hide.me is “absolutely zero logs.” We don’t agree with this conclusion, since Hide.me logs aggregated data of monthly use and some account information. But we do agree that Hide.me is very private and safe to use.
We’d like to see an updated logging audit, since this was performed many years ago.
Hide.me also led the way in releasing transparency reports about the legal requests it receives and how it responds to them. It’s been publishing these annually since 2012.
For example, in 2022 Hide.me received 27,532 DMCA complaints and 10 law enforcement requests. Hide.me responds to every legal request it receives and follows the law, but it has no data to hand over. This proves its privacy policy claims.
Hide.me is owned by a company called eVenture Ltd, an IT security company incorporated in Malaysia since 2011.
This is great for the company’s privacy credentials, as there are no data retention laws in Malaysia, and it is not part of intrusive surveillance alliances like the Five Eyes.
Hide.me has never experienced a scandal or data breach of any kind, either — its reputation remains trustworthy.
Here’s a list of popular streaming platforms that Hide.me Premium and Free currently unblocks:
| Streaming Platform | Hide.me Premium | Hide.me Free |
|---|---|---|
| Channel 4 | Yes | No |
| Amazon Prime Video | Yes | No |
| BBC iPlayer | Yes | No |
| Disney+ | Yes | No |
| HBO Max | Yes | No |
| Hotstar India | Yes | No |
| Hulu | Yes | No |
| ITVX | Yes | No |
| Netflix US | Yes | No |
| YouTube | Yes | Yes |
Hide.me premium works very well with Netflix. It’s capable of accessing 6 Netflix libraries from overseas, including the US Netflix library, without any buffering.
We’ve tested Hide.me on Netflix for a number of years. Our tests show that these are the Netflix regions it reliably unblocks:
This is a reasonable number of extra Netflix regions, but the highest-rated Netflix VPNs can stream over 30 libraries.
Hide.me works very well for bypassing geo-restrictions on US streaming services. It’s able to unblock HBO Max and Hulu, and it also has servers optimized for streaming in 15 more countries.
Hide.me has streaming servers for 16 countries.
We tested all of Hide.me’s streaming servers and were impressed by how easily they unblocked each country’s respective streaming sites, such as CTV in Canada, ProSieben in Germany, and Japanese Netflix.
Hide.me works very well and reliably with BBC iPlayer through its optimized server.
The VPN has UK streaming servers for BBC iPlayer, Disney+, and UK Netflix, and all of them work effectively.
The free version of Hide.me is completely different to Hide.me Pro: it was detected by every international streaming site we tested it with, making it one of the worst free VPNs for streaming.
Hide.me Free fails to unblock all streaming sites.
Hide.me Free doesn’t work with US Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, or BBC iPlayer. Combined with a 10GB data limit, we don’t recommend Hide.me Free if you’re looking to stream content regularly. We recommend Windscribe Free instead.
We tested Hide.me’s torrenting performance with popular torrent clients including qBittorrent and Deluge.
Here is the most important data about how Hide.me performed in our torrenting tests:
| Torrenting Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average Download Bitrate | ||
| No. of P2P Servers | ||
| Logging Policy | ||
| Kill Switch | ||
| Port Forwarding |
All of Hide.me’s 1,800 servers are P2P-optimized. In terms of speed, we recorded a very fast average download bitrate of 9.62MiB/s. This is one of the fastest bitrates we’ve seen, which means you’re likely to experience fast P2P downloads.
Our tests show that Hide.me Premium downloads files quickly on torrent clients.
In terms of security and privacy, Hide.me is one of the safest VPNs you can use for torrenting. It has a private logging policy that retains no sensitive data about your file-sharing activity.
We were previously concerned about its unreliable kill switch, but that problem has been resolved and it now works to prevent accidental IP address leaks.
Hide.me does not permit regular (static) port forwarding for security reasons. Instead, it has developed a safer Dynamic Port Forwarding (UPnP), which you can manually install via the Members Area.
The free version of Hide.me is also optimized for P2P activity. You can torrent on all of its free servers and experience the same privacy protection as the paid version.
The problem is the hugely reduced speeds compared to Hide.me Premium, which makes downloading files extremely slow.
We recorded an average bitrate of 4.46MiB/s when using the free version of Hide.me, which is below average and half as slow as the paid version.
In the table below, you can see which encryption ciphers, connection protocols, and additional security features Hide.me has:
| Protocols | Available in Hide.me |
|---|---|
| IKEv2/IPSec | Yes |
| OpenVPN (TCP/UDP) | Yes |
| PPTP | Yes |
| SoftEther | Yes |
| TLS VPN | Yes |
| WireGuard | Yes |
| Encryption | Available in Hide.me |
|---|---|
| AES-128 | No |
| AES-192 | No |
| AES-256 | Yes |
| Blowfish | No |
| ChaCha20 | Yes |
| Security | Available in Hide.me |
|---|---|
| DNS Leak Blocking | Yes |
| First-party DNS | Yes |
| IPv6 Leak Blocking | Yes |
| Supports TCP Port 443 | Yes |
| VPN Kill Switch | Yes |
| WebRTC Leak Blocking | No |
| Advanced Features | Available in Hide.me |
|---|---|
| Ad Blocker | No |
| Dedicated IP | No |
| Double VPN | Yes |
| Smart DNS | No |
| Static IP | No |
| SOCKS | Yes |
| Split Tunneling | Yes |
| Tor over VPN Server | No |
| Tracker Blocker | No |
Hide.me does everything right when it comes to security and features: it uses AES-256 cipher to encrypt your traffic, offers a variety of secure protocols like WireGuard, and goes the extra mile by managing its own DNS servers and offering double VPN servers.
Hide.me offers its users the best VPN protocols available. OpenVPN and WireGuard are included on all desktop and mobile apps. SoftEther and PPTP protocols are also available, but they’re less secure and remain exclusive to Hide.me’s Windows apps.
Other security features include built-in leak protection and a kill switch to protect your real IP address in the event of an unexpected connection drop.
We tested both of these features and the results were all positive: Hide.me does not leak any DNS or WebRTC data and its kill switch works perfectly across all devices.
In previous tests, we used to get frequent warnings that Hide.me’s kill switch cannot be enabled, but Hide.me has listened to our criticism and fixed it.
Hide.me’s kill switch works perfectly to prevent accidental IP leaks.
However, Hide.me’s kill switch has to be manually toggled on via settings. We think it should be turned on by default.
We also tested to see whether Hide.me actually encrypts your data by running it through a packet-sniffing tool called Wireshark. The results showed that Hide.me effectively encrypts incoming and outgoing network packets:
Hide.me encrypts your browsing data, making it indecipherable.
Hide.me has a useful feature called Stealth Guard, which stops you from connecting to the internet until you’ve established a VPN connection.
This can also be limited to specific apps. Stealth Guard ensures you don’t forget to switch on your VPN protection.
Stealth Guard guarantees you’re protected by a VPN when using the web or specific apps.
Hide.me’s split tunneling feature is also available on every platform except iOS. This enables you to select the apps that run through the VPN tunnel and which do not.
Hide.me also automatically supports both IPv4 or IPv6 traffic, depending on which is available. Many VPNs are still not compatible with IPv6 and just block the traffic, like Surfshark. We prefer Hide.me’s dual stack solution.
Hide.me has multi-hop servers, which allow you to route your traffic through two different VPN servers, providing double protection. Other VPNs like Surfshark and Proton VPN have this feature, but it’s still relatively rare.
Hide.me asks you to manually select your entry and exit server locations, which is great, but we’d like to see an automatic option, too, as some users might prefer to have the locations quickly chosen for them.
Hide.me has a multi-hop feature with manual entry and exit servers.
Hide.me manages its own DNS servers, which have been designed to retain no information about you.
This is great for privacy as it means Hide.me handles and encrypts your DNS requests, preventing your traffic from going through your ISP’s less private DNS servers.
You can also set up custom DNS and choose to use a random port for every connection, which is sometimes called Dynamic Port or Ephemeral Port. This makes it harder for ISPs to track and block your VPN use.
Hide.me is completely free of viruses. We scanned the Hide.me installation software through VirusTotal.com, and no viruses or malware were detected.
Users of Hide.me Free also benefit from exactly the same level of security as its paid subscribers, making it one of the most secure free VPNs available.
Using a 100Mbps internet connection, we tested the impact Hide.me has on our internet speeds by connecting to servers on all six continents. Here are the full results:
As you can see, Hide.me delivers very fast speeds both locally and internationally and is one of the fastest VPNs on the market.
On local connections, the VPN reduced our connection speeds by just 4%. Connecting to the UK from the US, we picked up speeds of 92Mbps, which is only 8% less than our normal connection despite over 3,500 miles of distance.
To put these results in context, you can use the bar chart below to compare Hide.me’s speeds with other fast VPNs, like NordVPN and Surfshark:
However, when it comes to overall speed performance, Hide.me is still behind IPVanish and Hotspot Shield, scoring 9.8 in our speed tests compared to IPVanish’s score of 9.8 and Hotspot Shield’s near-perfect 10.0 rating.
Hide.me’s ping times are very low. We recorded a local latency of 9ms, which is one of the lowest ping scores in our data set. This makes Hide.me a viable VPN for lag-less gaming.
As expected, Hide.me’s latency increases the further away you connect, so you should stick to local server connections to keep ping down.
We tested Hide.me’s speed and ping performance using our own speed test tool.
With Hide.me, you can connect to servers in these regions:
| Continent | Number of Countries |
|---|---|
| Europe | 29 |
| Asia | 10 |
| South America | 2 |
| North America | 3 |
| Africa | 3 |
| Oceania | 2 |
As you can see above, Hide.me has a good-sized server network. The paid subscription plan gives you access to 1,800 servers in 49 countries. This has dropped from 2,000 servers since we started testing Hide.me, but it’s still a reasonably-sized network.
This lets you get an IP address from most parts of the world, but its emphasis is in Europe and North America, where there are many city-level server options.
There are city-level servers in the Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, US, and UK.
Hide.me has a large server network with city options in eight countries.
Australia is also notably represented, with six city servers available. This makes Hide.me a good choice if you want to get an Australian IP address.
There are servers in Asia, the Middle East, and South America, but it doesn’t compare to the focus on Western nations and these countries are limited to servers in just one city. Hide.me could address this going forward.
Hide.me is lagging behind other VPNs in terms of server quantity in part because it only offers physical servers – which are more expensive to setup and maintain.
This means the server hardware is actually located in the country listed, which results in better speeds if you’re near to them, and a more consistent ability to beat geo-restrictions.
Hide.me Free only has eight server locations available. These countries are:
This is limiting, but it’s not as restrictive as other free VPNs we’ve tested, which are often limited to a single server location (Atlas VPN Free) or up to three (Proton VPN Free).
For an even more generous quantity of free servers, Windscribe Free offers 10 locations.
Every week, we test dozens of popular VPN services using a test server in Shanghai. These tests are designed to identify which VPNs work to unblock restricted websites in China and other highly-censored countries.
Hide.me used to only work in China 9% of the time, which wasn’t reliable enough for us to recommend it.
However, our recent tests reveal that it now works in China 84% of the time.
This is a huge improvement and an above average result, making it the 4th most effective VPN for bypassing censorship. That’s why we rate it 9.0 in this category.
We found Hide.me to be particularly effective in China when using its multi-hop tool, but it requires you to set up a ‘Custom Location’ designed to get around China blocks, which is provided by the Hide.me team. You can follow instructions on how to do this in our VPN recommendations for China.
Hide.me’s multi-hop tool beats Chinese censorship, but you first need to set up a custom location.
Hide.me gets around censorship using an obfuscation technology called TLS-Crypt. It works by disguising VPN traffic as ‘normal’ traffic. This means Hide.me will also work well in other censoring countries like Russia, Turkey, and the UAE.
The SoftEther protocol is also available on Hide.me’s Windows app. It’s a protocol designed to penetrate censorship firewalls, using HTTPS to mask your VPN traffic.
Despite its improved performance, there are still better VPNs than Hide.me for circumventing censorship. For example, Astrill VPN always works to unblock websites in the most censored countries in the world.
Hide.me has native apps for the following devices:
Windows
Mac
iOS
Android
LinuxYou can use Hide.me on 10 different devices simultaneously. This is a generous amount — better than the average five.
However, it’s still not as generous as Surfshark or Private Internet Access, which have no limit on simultaneous connections at all.
It’s worth bearing in mind that not every Hide.me feature is available across all apps. You can use the table below to see which apps offer which features:
For devices that don’t allow you to install VPN apps, you can install Hide.me on your router. This makes it compatible with all of these extra devices:
Apple TV
Amazon Fire TV
Android TV
Chromecast
Nintendo
PlayStation
Roku
Smart TV
XboxHowever, it’s unfortunate that Hide.me does not have a Smart DNS feature.
This would offer a much simpler way to stream geo-blocked content on devices that don’t support VPN applications.
VPN services like ExpressVPN and Surfshark offer effective Smart DNS solutions.
Hide.me provides proxy browser extensions for:
Chrome
FirefoxAvailable under the name “Hide.me Proxy”, these browser extensions are encrypted proxies, rather than full VPN services.
They spoof your real location and encrypt your web traffic, but they do not encrypt anything outside your browser like a VPN does. This is why Hide.me recommends that you use them in combination with the VPN app.
Hide.me Proxy is free to install and comes with servers in Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. There’s also options to Enable SOCKS, Disable WebRTC, and ‘Always Enable Proxy’.
Hide.me has a free proxy for Chrome and Firefox.
These extensions are a simple and free way to quickly change your IP address and protect yourself against WebRTC leaks. However, there’s no reason to use it if you’re already using the Hide.me VPN.
Having tested Hide.me for years, we appreciate the improvements that have been made to its user experience.
In the past, random connection drops and app crashes ruined our experience and lowered its ease of use rating. Today, we never encounter bugs and all of its apps run smoothly.
Each native app has been updated, loads quickly, and follows the same design principles.
Here’s a breakdown of our experience testing Hide.me on its different apps:
Hide.me is mostly the same on macOS and Windows, with little variance between the two. However, the Windows version is more advanced, and it may intimidate casual users.
On both desktop apps, there is a central Enable VPN connection button, some details about your connection, and a menu at the bottom of the window. From here, you can change server location, access streaming servers, and customize your settings. It’s all very simple.
Hide.me is identical on macOS (left) and Windows (right).
It is easy to switch between Hide.me servers by heading to the ‘Locations’ tab. You can choose streaming-optimized servers or multihop, add specific servers to a favorite list, or select a server as your default connection.
For improvements, accompanying information about server load would be useful, and integrating the server list on the home screen would make changing servers even more effortless.
Thankfully, the settings menu on macOS has been reduced to the bare essentials. There are some nice customization options, such as whether to show the app icon in dock or not, as well as auto-connect.
Less obvious features like Stealth Guard and split tunneling come with helpful explainers, and each protocol has a useful description of its benefits. All of this makes Hide.me less intimidating to VPN newcomers.
But the settings are more complicated and intimidating on Windows. Firstly, there are more protocols, including SSTP, which we don’t think is necessary. You can also customize your protocol connections by using custom ports or changing adapter types. We think this is overly-complicated.
Hide.me is more complicated on Windows compared to macOS.
On top of this, there is Fallback Configuration, which allows you to select a backup protocol in case your preferred one is inaccessible. While some tech-minded users might appreciate this, we can’t imagine many people insistent on specific backup protocols and it feels redundant.
Overall, we’d like to see Hide.me simplify its Windows offering in line with the macOS app.
Hide.me’s mobile applications are similar to its desktop apps, with an identical interface and menu. They’re just as easy to use, sharing most of the same features and customization options. The only feature missing on mobile is Stealth Guard.
Unlike on desktop, both mobile apps have a dark and light mode option. You can also set up Siri shortcuts on the iOS app – something we’ve not seen often in other VPN services.
You can get support from the Hide.me team in the following ways:
| Customer Support | Available in Hide.me |
|---|---|
| 24/7 Live Chat Support | Yes |
| 24/7 Email Support | No |
| Chatbot | No |
| Yes | |
| Email Support via Online Form | Yes |
| Tutorial Videos | Yes |
| Online Resources | Yes |
Hide.me has an extensive customer support system, including helpful setup videos, a comprehensive knowledge base and community forum, and 24/7 live chat support. This level of support is offered to Hide.me Free users, too.
We also appreciate that you can submit a support ticket from within the Hide.me app. Most VPNs force you to visit the website.
Hide.me has a useful 24/7 live chat feature.
It’s great that Hide.me’s live chat is clearly advertised on the website home page and that there is no chatbot. You also don’t need to be a Hide.me subscriber to start a conversation.
Oftentimes it feels like VPNs are trying to hide their live chat support or deter you with unhelpful boilerplate responses, but not Hide.me.
When contacting support agents via the live chat, we found the responses to be mostly helpful and consistently fast – usually they respond in just a matter of seconds. However, the agents (always called ‘Ian’) can be quite blunt and even rude, lazily sending links rather than communicating in a helpful manner.
Here are all of Hide.me’s current pricing plans:
26 Month(s)
$3.45/mo
Billed $89.70 every 26 months12 Month(s)
$5.82/mo
Billed $69.95 every 12 monthsMonthly
$9.95/mo
Billed $9.95 every monthHide.me’s cheapest subscription plan is $3.45 per month for 26 months. This is a reasonable price tag for such an advanced VPN, and we’re pleased that the price has been dropped from $4.99 per month. That said, there are still better VPN services available for less money.
On short term deals, you can subscribe to Hide.me for a year at a cost of $5.85 per month ($69.95 paid in one lump sum), or a single month for $9.95.
Hide.me’s one-month deal is better than average. Most VPNs charge over $10.00 for a single month.
For example, even the best cheap VPNs like Private Internet Access and Surfshark charge $11.99 and $12.95, respectively. So if you want a VPN for the short term, it’s worth considering Hide.me.
Here is a full list of payment methods that Hide.me accepts:
American Express
Bitcoin
Mastercard
Monero
PayPal
SOFORT
VisaHide.me also offers an abundance of cryptocurrency payment options that will appeal to privacy-conscious users.
Hide.me has a refund guarantee that’s limited to 30-days after purchase. This is similar to most VPN services, but some go the extra mile to offer longer refund periods. CyberGhost leads the way with a 45-day money-back guarantee.
Hide.me doesn’t offer a free trial. You can use its money-back guarantee to test the premium version for a month, but you’ll have to pay for the service and request a refund within the allotted time period.
Hide.me is one of the best free VPNs you can use. Unlike so many free VPNs on the market, it’s perfectly safe, doesn’t log or sell your data, and comes with the same security features as the premium version.
Hide.me Free is safe but heavily restricted by data and speed caps.
However, Hide.me’s free version does come with lots of restrictions, including a server network limited to eight countries, a single simultaneous connection limit, and a monthly data cap of 10GB. It also fails to unblock any streaming sites.
Another way that Hide.me lags behind its premium version is speed. When using Hide.me Free, our regular internet speed consistently dropped by 99%. We only ever picked up speeds of around 1Mbps.
This is extraordinarily slow and will definitely limit your experience.
Unless you only need a free VPN to surf the web, it’s likely you’ll want to buy Hide.me Pro and reap the full benefits of a VPN.
EXPERT ADVICE: If you exceed Hide.me Free’s 10GB per month data cap, you can continue to use the VPN for an unlimited time but it will restrict you to a single server.
Hide.me’s strengths are its fast speeds, streaming capabilities, and strong privacy credentials. These are important factors in our assessment of any VPN, which makes Hide.me a very good service that’s worth the subscription price.
We’re particularly impressed with how much Hide.me has improved since we started testing it: it has fixed its kill switch, its apps aren’t faulty any more, and it’s gone from being one of the worst VPNs for online censorship to one of the best.
It’s still not perfect, though. Going forward, we’d like to see Hide.me invest in a completely diskless server network and develop a Smart DNS so users can enjoy Hide.me’s streaming capabilities on devices that aren’t compatible with VPNs. An updated logging audit would help, too.
Furthermore, the kill switch should be on by default and we’d like to see restrictions on its free version eased up, particularly when it comes to speed and data caps. Having said that, Hide.me Free continues to be a safe option.
Windscribe is a technical VPN like Hide.me, but it performs better in most of our tests. Unlike Hide.me, it has invested in a diskless server network to protect its users privacy, and its free version is better than Hide.me Free. Windscribe Free unblocks most streaming services and its speeds are much faster.
If you want better value for money, you should consider Surfshark, which is half the price of Hide.me and a better all round performer. It doesn’t impose a simultaneous connection limit like Hide.me and it has a working Smart DNS feature.
You can compare the key attributes of Hide.me to some of the very best VPNs in the table below:
Hide.me Premium provides unlimited data, but Hide.me Free is limited to 10GB of data per month.
However, if you go over the free 10GB data cap, you can actually continue to use Hide.me Free. The only difference is that you have no choice of servers.
