hide.me Review Australia

Reviewed by Laurence Deer, founder and reviewer in Melbourne, testing VPNs since 2019

hide.me

Price checked 2 NovNot tested yetNumber 12 of 16 in our calculated order

BestVPN score: not scored, because we have not tested hide.me yet. How we score

Our verdict

Good for steady prices and a free plan

hide.me suits Australians tired of renewal-price shocks: every plan renews at the price you first paid, and a free plan lets you try it first. Top10VPN's July 2026 tests found almost no speed loss on nearby servers. The catch for Australians is US-dollar billing and Australian cities we have not confirmed.

From US$2.50 (about A$3.56) a month

Premium 28 months plan, US$69.99 upfront. Renews at US$69.99 every 28 months. Lowest plan of each VPN we track: A$1.58 to A$17.79.

Visit hide.meFrom US$2.50/mo · checked 2 Nov (Lowest monthly price (about A$3.56), on the Premium 28 months plan paid upfront for 28 months; read from hide.me on 2 November 2026)

Price and plan details read from hide.me.

Choose it if

• You want to renew at the price you first paid
• You want a free plan hide.me says has no data cap
• You need apps for Fire TV, Apple TV or a router
• You want a provider based outside the Five Eyes

Skip it if

• You want a VPN we have tested from Australia
• You want to pay in Australian dollars
• You need a particular Australian city confirmed before paying

hide.me: key facts

Money-back

30 daysVPNs we track: 7 to 45 days

Free trial

NoneCompare VPN free trials

Devices at once

10VPNs we track: 2 to unlimited

Server countries

57+VPNs we track: 30 to 150

Australian cities

Not checked

Protocols and features

Protocols

Stealth, WireGuard

Features

Multi-hop (two servers), Obfuscation, Port forwarding, Split tunnelling

As hide.me's own site lists them, read 2 Nov 2026.

hide.me test results

We have not tested hide.me ourselves yet. Figures on this page come from its own website, with the date we read them. How we test

hide.me: what has changed

• 26 Oct 2026 Review text last edited
• 23 Oct 2026 Plans on its site changed: now lists Premium 14 months and Premium 28 months; no longer lists Premium 13 months and Premium 26 months

Prices are read from hide.me's website every morning (last read 2 Nov 2026) and its feature pages weekly; we record every change we see.

What stood out

hide.me’s free plan is the main draw. By its own account it needs no account, covers one device and has unlimited data. The company behind it, eVenture Ltd, says it is based in Malaysia.

What we cannot tell you yet is how it runs from Australia. We have not confirmed its Australian cities, or whether the free tier has an Australian server. A server in another state adds delay to everything you do.

Use the 30-day money-back guarantee on a paid plan to check it on your own NBN line. Our NordVPN review has October 2026 results from Melbourne.

Not yet tested by us. The speed and streaming points are Top10VPN’s, from July 2026.

What other hide.me reviews found

Top10VPN’s July 2026 review measured a 3% speed loss on nearby servers and 14% on international ones. For most browsing, that is about the same as having the VPN off.

Torrenting was barely affected, and its streaming servers reached 11 Netflix libraries, BBC iPlayer, Disney+ and Prime Video.

That is one reviewer, testing outside Australia. Your own NBN line, inside the 30-day refund period, is the better test.

hide.me deal in Australia (checked 2 Nov 2026)

hide.me price in Australia

hide.me charges in US dollars. The table is read from its pricing page; the Australian-dollar figure is an approximate conversion, before your bank’s exchange rate and any international transaction fee.

VAT may apply.

Checked 2 Nov 2026 Price and plan details read from hide.me.

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Each plan renews at the same price every term, so the deal you sign up for is the one you keep. Paid plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and hide.me says they cover ten devices.

Because nothing jumps, the three-year cost below is the plan price repeated.

hide.me free plan

hide.me says its free plan has unlimited data, covers one device and needs no account. If that holds, you will not hit a monthly allowance halfway through a trip.

We cannot yet tell you how fast it is or which locations it offers. Use it for browsing on café or airport Wi-Fi, and compare it in our best free VPN in Australia guide.

Is hide.me safe? Privacy and audits

hide.me says it keeps no logs and that the security firm Securitum audited that policy in 2024, after an earlier audit in 2015. It also says it publishes transparency reports. We have not seen either audit report, so treat these as hide.me’s claims.

hide.me says it is run by eVenture Ltd, based in Malaysia. That puts it outside the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of Australia, the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand.

hide.me apps, devices and Australian servers

hide.me says one paid account covers ten devices, enough for most households. It lists apps for Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and Linux, plus Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV and routers.

Check its server list before you buy if you want a server near you; a closer server adds less delay.

hide.me lists WireGuard and Stealth among its protocols. The extras that matter:

• Split tunnelling lets your banking app or Stan skip the VPN while everything else uses it.
• Multi-hop routes you through two servers for extra privacy, at a speed cost.
• Obfuscation disguises VPN traffic on networks that block VPNs, such as some hotel and office Wi-Fi.
• Port forwarding helps torrent clients and game servers accept incoming connections.

Using hide.me in Australia

• Australian servers: see hide.me's server list for current Australian locations.
• Billing: charged in USD, so the Australian-dollar cost moves with the exchange rate.
• Refund period: 30 days.

Australian law requires internet providers to keep customers' metadata for two years. A VPN encrypts the connection between your device and the VPN server, so your internet provider can see that you are using a VPN but not which sites you visit. It does not make you anonymous to the VPN provider itself, which is why the provider's logging policy and audits matter.

Alternatives to hide.me

These are our three picks. Each card shows the fact from our tests or data behind its label, and its BestVPN score. For Australian-dollar pricing and confirmed Australian cities, compare Surfshark and NordVPN.

• NordVPNOne of our picksBestVPN score 8.3/10From A$4.79 a monthBlack Friday deal ends soonVisit NordVPNNordVPN review
• SurfsharkMost popular with our readersMost clicks from readers in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore in the last 30 daysBestVPN score 7.2/10From A$3.49 a monthVisit SurfsharkSurfshark review
• Proton VPNFastest on Australian servers in our testsKept 99% of our download speed on a Melbourne server, 21 Oct 2026BestVPN score 8.7/10From US$3.49 (about A$4.97) a monthPartner offerVisit Proton VPNProton VPN review

hide.me FAQ

How we keep this review current

We read prices and plans from hide.me’s own website each morning and show the date of the last check beside each figure. The independent reviews we cite are linked so you can read them in full.

When we test hide.me, we will run the same checks as our NordVPN tests: speed from a Melbourne home NBN line, DNS leaks, and Australian and overseas streaming. The dated results will appear on this page.

Sources

• hide.me’s own pricing page: prices read 16 October 2026; apps, protocols and features read 13 October 2026.
• Independent review, read 13 October 2026: Top10VPN (July 2026).