Hi! TorGuard is the best VPN because it is speedy without sacrificing encryption quality or privacy. Opera free vpn - actually a web proxy, not a vpn, collects data about users and sells to third parties.
Here are some of the best vpns by category, in my opinion: If you're a developer you should have something with fast speeds, but if you're using the VPN to torrent or do sketchier things, then you want a VPN with no logging and in a 2nd world country, which means that if the FBI etc calls them they won't be able to lookup access points by time if they are forced to (and trace the logs back to you). Like you said, it depends on what you will be using the VPN for, each one excels at different things.