ZoneBlade vs Urban VPN

The short answer

ZoneBlade is the better choice, because of what happens to your data. Urban VPN's privacy policy says it may sell or disclose personal information, including the sites you visit, to its parent company, a data broker, and researchers found it capturing AI chat conversations in 2025. ZoneBlade keeps no record of your browsing and sells nothing. Urban VPN has more free countries, 82 against ZoneBlade's 6.

Checked against Urban VPN's own website and store listing on . Every claim about Urban VPN links to its source.

Side by side

ZoneBlade and Urban VPN, row by row.

Numbers link to their sources at the bottom of the page.

FeatureZoneBladeUrban VPN logoUrban VPN
Free planYesYes1
Works without an accountYesYes2
Free dataUnlimitedUnlimited3
Countries on the free plan6821
No ads on the free planYesNot stated
Doesn't sell your data or share your connectionYesNo2Says it may sell browsing data
A different country in each tabYesNo1
The same site in two countries at onceYesEach country keeps its own cookiesNo1
Countries18082+1Its own pages say 80 to 89
Apps for your whole deviceNoChrome and Edge onlyYes4
Price, month to month$5.99Premium, monthly$12.995Premium
Lowest price a month$4.00Premium, $47.99 a year$4.955Premium, yearly, introductory
Urban VPN: who runs it
Urban Cyber Security Inc., Delaware, US; its parent, BIScience, is a data broker [2]
Urban VPN: what it collects
Its privacy policy lists the addresses of sites you visit and AI prompts and responses, and says it may sell raw personal information to its affiliates or parent [2]
Urban VPN: AI chats
In December 2025 researchers reported that version 5.5.0 captured conversations with AI chatbots, on by default [6]
Urban VPN: Chrome Web Store
4.7 stars from 68,400 ratings, 7 million users [1]

Free, but at what cost

Urban VPN is free with no account and no data cap in 82 countries, more than most. Its privacy policy explains how: it collects the addresses of sites you visit, among other things, and its parent company, BIScience, is a data broker it may sell personal information to.

In December 2025 security researchers reported that Urban VPN Proxy 5.5.0 captured prompts and replies from AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, on by default, whether or not the VPN was switched on.

ZoneBlade's free plan

ZoneBlade Free has no account and no data cap in 6 countries. It keeps no record of the sites you visit, never sells data, and counts only how much data each device uses, by country. Premium, which pays for Free, opens all 180.

A country in every tab

Urban VPN puts the whole browser in one country. ZoneBlade's Each tab mode gives every Chrome tab group its own country and its own cookies, so the same site can be open in two countries side by side.

When Urban VPN is the better pick

Urban VPN has more free countries, 82 against ZoneBlade's 6, and a free Windows app for the whole computer. If those matter more to you than what happens to your data, it offers them.

The verdict

ZoneBlade wins, because a VPN is for privacy: it keeps no record of your browsing and sells nothing, where Urban VPN's own policy allows selling personal information to a data broker. Add a country in every tab and ZoneBlade is the free VPN to use.

Questions

Is Urban VPN safe?

Its privacy policy says it collects sites you visit and AI prompts and may sell personal information to its parent, a data broker, and researchers found it capturing AI chats in 2025. ZoneBlade keeps no record of your browsing and doesn't sell data.

Does Urban VPN have more free countries than ZoneBlade?

Yes, 82 against ZoneBlade Free's 6. ZoneBlade Premium covers 180.

Sources

  1. 1https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/urban-vpn-proxy/eppiocemhmnlbhjplcgkofciiegomcon
  2. 2https://www.urban-vpn.com/about-us/privacy/
  3. 3https://www.urban-vpn.com/about-us/why-free/
  4. 4https://www.urban-vpn.com/faq/
  5. 5https://www.urban-vpn.com/pricing/
  6. 6https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/chrome_edge_privacy_extensions_quietly/

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