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CyberGhost vs TunnelBear Comparison

Feature
Overview
Rating7.77.4
Pricing
  • $12.99/mo1 month
  • $6.99/mo6 months
  • $2.19/mo2 years + 2 months (26 months)
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  • 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount; 14-day money-back guarantee (shorter than the 45-day window on longer plans)
  • 6 months: Auto-renews every 6 months at the same rate; 45-day money-back guarantee
  • 2 years + 2 months (26 months): $56.94 billed for the first 26 months, then autorenews at $56.94 annually — the same dollar amount both times, confirmed directly on CyberGhost's own checkout page, but the effective monthly rate still rises from $2.19/mo to ~$4.75/mo because the renewal cycle is 12 months instead of 26
  • $9.99/moUnlimited, 1 month
  • $4.99/moUnlimited, 1 year
  • $3.33/moUnlimited, 3 years
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  • Unlimited, 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount
  • Unlimited, 1 year: $59.88 billed every 12 months; TunnelBear's own checkout authorization text states future renewal terms are charged at the same $59.88 — a confirmed flat rate, not a discounted intro price. TunnelBear does not offer a standard 30-day money-back guarantee, reviewing refund requests case by case instead
  • Unlimited, 3 years: $120.00 billed once every 3 years; a one-time non-recurring charge per TunnelBear's own checkout flow, not an auto-renewing subscription — resubscribing after 3 years would be a new purchase at whatever pricing is current then, not a guaranteed renewal at this rate. Same case-by-case refund policy as the annual term
Established20112011
Platforms
WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS
WindowsmacOSAndroidiOS
Privacy
No-logs auditDeloitte Audit Romania 2025
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Third of three independent Deloitte Audit Romania engagements under ISAE 3000 (Revised): first as of September 22, 2022 (VPN server network and management systems); second as of January 31, 2024 (same scope, repeat engagement); third completed sometime in 2025 per a blog post last updated February 24, 2026 (exact 2025 completion date not stated more precisely), which added the dedicated-IP token-based system to scope. All three examined whether server configurations align with CyberGhost's no-logs policy and found no evidence of activity logging.

Cure53 2025
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8th consecutive annual independent security audit, a white-box review (full source code, configuration, and backend access) conducted over 44 working days by 8 senior Cure53 auditors, blog post announcing completion published November 24, 2025. This round found 10 vulnerabilities of medium severity or higher plus 3 low-severity issues, all acknowledged and addressed or mitigated per TunnelBear. The prior (7th) audit, published February 2024, found 7 issues of medium risk or higher (5 medium, 2 high) out of 13 total. Unlike several other frequently-audited providers reviewed on this site, TunnelBear's audits consistently surface real, non-trivial findings each year rather than clean reports — presented here as a distinct trust profile (transparent about real issues, not a spotless record) rather than smoothed over.

JurisdictionRomaniaUnited States
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Operating entity TunnelBear LLC (Delaware). Data storage and operations remain under Canadian law, per TunnelBear's own privacy policy.

Anonymous accountsNoNo
Network
Servers100 countries
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Unlimited bandwidth. CyberGhost doesn't publish a current exact total server count on the pages checked for this review.

47 countries
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Per TunnelBear's own homepage; exact total server count not published on the pages checked for this review.

Protocols
WireGuardOpenVPNIKEv2
WireGuardOpenVPNIKEv2
Devices7Unlimited
Features
Kill switchYesYes
Split tunnelingYesYes
Torrenting allowedYesYes
Double VPNNot specifiedNot specified
Rotating IPNot specifiedNot specified
Streaming unblock
Netflix
Not specified