In short, good value for money it does not make. What's more, its streaming capabilities are pretty much all you're getting for your money. While being an excellent streaming VPN is desirable, Hola's Premium plan is pretty expensive ($14.99 a month or $7.69 a month for its annual plan), unless you're prepared to commit to its three year plan from the get-go, working out at $2.99 a month. Really, though, that's where Hola's positives end.

Better still, for paying customers, your bandwidth won't be used - only customers of the free tool can become peers. The perks of this means Hola VPN is less likely to be detected - great news for those looking to stream who don't want to be caught out by the likes of Netflix's anti-VPN infrastructure. This essentially means it will route your traffic through other users of Hola (nodes) as opposed to the more standard private server network system other VPNs adopt. Standing out above the rest, Hola calls itself 'the first community-powered VPN'. It also offers a number of clients - some that other VPN simply don't provide, like a Fire Stick VPN - allowing you to equip multiple devices with its 10 simultaneous connections. Perhaps best known for its browser extensions, Hola VPN is certainly of interest if you're looking for a VPN that can bypass geo-restrictions and access the most popular streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+.

Click to head straight through to the Hola website (opens in new tab).Offering compatibility across a variety of devices, including a router VPN and TV apps for LG, Fire TV, Apple TV and other Smart TVs, how does its middling, paid-for plan shape up against the big players in the game? We put it through its paces in our Hola VPN Premium review below.

Setting out to 'reinvent HTTP' and allow everyone to override censorship, Hola VPN is both a free and premium VPN service, claiming over 239 million users globally.

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