I see people very often confused about exit nodes, that is the part where most people don't understand the best about Tor. VPN are worse for privacy in every way unless you are running a VPN yourself, which kind of defeats the purpose of anonymity in the first place.
I think it's fair only if you're using VPN from companies. Open source VPN such as OpenVPN not worse than Tor.
But i'm not a big specialist in web safety, so i'm waiting for your response