CyberGhost vs TunnelBear

Neither of these is trying to be the most capable VPN available, which makes the comparison a question of which set of omissions you can live with rather than which is better.

Two narrow products, narrow in different places

CyberGhost is built around streaming: servers picked for particular services, a Smart DNS for televisions and consoles that cannot run an app, ad blocking and IPv6 protection. What it lacks is obfuscation, multi-hop and port forwarding — and the missing obfuscation means any network filtering VPN traffic stops CyberGhost outright.

TunnelBear has obfuscation, so it gets through those networks, and no cap on simultaneous devices including on its free plan. What it lacks is nearly everything else: no multi-hop, no ad blocking, no port forwarding, no Linux app, nothing for a television, and support pages saying that regional blocks are not something it works at.

So one covers the living room and fails on filtered connections; the other survives filtered connections and cannot reach the living room at all. Very few readers need both, which is what makes this decidable.

Owners, named and unnamed

CyberGhost has been owned by Kape Technologies since 2017 and its site does not mention it, while Kape sells two other VPNs as independent brands. TunnelBear has been owned by McAfee since 2018 and says so, though it runs from Toronto under Canadian law while the entity in the contract is a Delaware company.

On inspection TunnelBear has the longer record — Cure53 most years since 2017 — but no report was published for the 2024 audit, and an independent lab found its kill switch leaks after a reboot and after a crash. CyberGhost's Deloitte report is limited assurance covering the servers on 31 October 2025, which is one date rather than a period, and its kill switch holds.

Jurisdiction favours CyberGhost: Romania is outside every intelligence-sharing agreement, Canada is inside the five-country one. Price roughly ties — TunnelBear's yearly plan renews at what it charged, CyberGhost bills twenty-six months and then twelve.

Which should you choose?

Choose CyberGhost if streaming to a television is the job, your connection is not filtered, and you can set aside an owner the site does not name. Choose TunnelBear if the connection might be filtered, you need unlimited devices, and a very short feature list is genuinely enough.

If both sets of gaps look too wide, Windscribe covers the ground both of these miss and costs about the same.