About VPNCompareHQ
VPNCompareHQ exists because the headline price of a VPN is almost never the price of a VPN. On nine of the eleven providers priced here, the monthly figure on the sign-up page is an intro rate that requires a prepayment of two or three years, and the renewal behind it is printed in smaller type, in a different period, on the same page. This site does one thing: it fetches each provider's own pricing page, quotes the entry price, the prepaid term and the renewal exactly as printed, records the date and a hash of the page text, and publishes all three side by side. Nothing here is estimated, converted or scored. Where a provider prints no renewal, the cell says so. Where a provider could not be read at all, or prices in a currency this index does not carry, it is listed with that fact instead of a number.
Why this site exists
This site exists because of a gap that is printed on the page and still catches almost everyone: the monthly figure a VPN advertises is the price of a prepayment, and the renewal behind it is a different number in a different period, set in smaller type a few lines below. Private Internet Access prints $1.79 a month and renews at $69.81 every three years. NordVPN prints $3.49 a month and renews at $139.08 a year. Both pairs are on the providers' own pages, and neither pair is what the adverts carry. Nobody was putting the two columns beside each other, so the cheapest-looking provider and the cheapest provider were being confused with one another every day. That is the whole job here: fetch what the page prints, quote it word for word, date it, and let the three columns argue.
Who it is for
A person about to pay for a VPN with their own card, or on a free tier and deciding whether to pay, who wants to know what it costs in year three
Not a network engineer procuring a corporate VPN, an IT department buying managed firewalls, or a developer buying proxy infrastructure: those are different products at different prices, and this site does not cover them
What it does not do
- No speed test, no security audit and no score: this site ranks providers on their own printed prices and nothing else, and a benchmark it did not run is not evidence it will publish
- No estimated, converted or filled-in figures: a renewal printed annually is published annually rather than divided into a monthly number no source prints, and a provider whose page could not be read is listed with that fact instead of a guess
- No advice on using a VPN to break a platform's terms of service or any country's law: the pages on torrenting and on betting state what the exposure is and what rule applies, never a method
- No paid placement: commission never changes a figure, the sort order or whether a provider is listed
What is on this site
16 guides, each with its sources on the page , 24 answers to the questions around them , and the comparison.
- Best VPN: Every list of the best VPN is really a list of somebody's commission rates, so this one starts somewhere duller and more useful: what each provider prints on its own page, what term that price requires, and what it renews at when the term ends.
- Cheapest VPN: The cheapest VPN is a question with two answers, and providers publish both on the same page while advertising only one.
- Best VPN UK: A British buyer reading a VPN price page is usually reading a dollar figure with a footnote about tax, and the footnote matters more than it looks.
- VPN Australia: Australian VPN buying has one local wrinkle and one universal one.
- Free VPN Canada: There are two kinds of free VPN and only one of them is worth a Canadian buyer's time.
- VPN prices UK: This is the plain price list.
- Buy VPN: Buying a VPN takes two minutes and commits you to two or three years on most of the plans advertised.
- Cheap VPN: The cheap end of this market is genuinely cheap and it is cheap for one reason: you are paying for two or three years at once.
- Best VPN for China: China is the hardest case in consumer VPN use and the one most heavily written about by people with an affiliate link.
- What is a firewall: A firewall decides which connections are allowed in or out of a device or a network.
- Best free VPN for torrenting: This page will not give you a list, and the reason is that the free tiers which exist are structurally poor at this particular job.
- Best VPN for expats: An expat VPN is a long subscription rather than a short one, which changes which number matters.
- Proxy site free: A proxy site free of charge is still being paid for by somebody, and on this shelf the funding model is almost never printed anywhere on the page offering it.
- UK proxy: Wanting a British address is one of the two commonest reasons anyone looks for a proxy, and it is usually a British person who has moved or travelled and found that a service they pay for has stopped working.
- Online web proxy: An online web proxy has to do something more complicated than it appears: it fetches a page, then rewrites every link, image, stylesheet and script reference inside it so they point back through the proxy rather than at the original site.
- Free online proxy: The useful question about a free online proxy is not whether it works but who is paying for it to work.
Where the figures come from
Consumer VPN prices (USD) verified against each provider's own pricing page on 2026-09-09 by infra/ingest/hubs/vpncomparehq.com/ingest_vendors.py: every quoted figure re-fetched and matched verbatim (hash-pinned); use-case coverage evidenced by the provider's live product page.
Who answers for it
Joseph Ellul, Publisher of VPNCompareHQ; the person who runs the price ingest, reads every correction sent from this site and answers it.
Reach us
Contact for a question about the site, or contact@vpncomparehq.com. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.