No Email for Free Plan · SoftEther Support
| Company | eVenture Ltd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Jurisdiction | Malaysia - outside 5/9/14 Eyes |
| Founded | 2012 |
| No-logs | Yes |
| Audit | Not published |
| Monthly | $9.95 |
| 2-year plan | $2.69 / month |
| Free plan | 10 GB/mo · no email |
| Refund | 30 days |
| Devices | 10 simultaneous |
| Protocols | WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, SSTP, SoftEther |
| Encryption | AES-256 |
| Obfuscation | StealthGuard |
| Servers | 2,600+ in 78 countries |
| Kill switch | All platforms |
| DNS leak | Protected |
Hide.me is registered in Malaysia, which has no mandatory data-retention legislation and no Eyes membership. The free plan requires no email address, no credit card, no account name - just install and use. The absence of required personal information is more meaningful from a privacy standpoint than a larger allowance that requires an email address.
SoftEther protocol support gives Hide.me a broader protocol roster than most providers. SoftEther is rarely available at consumer prices and performs well on networks that block OpenVPN. StealthGuard covers the censorship-resistance use case reasonably well.
No published independent audit means the no-logs claim can't be independently verified. For users who don't need the strongest audit record, the Malaysia jurisdiction, generous free tier, and protocol variety make it a practically strong option.