UK proxy: getting a British address, and where a proxy stops
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. A proxy can solve that for one page in one browser, and the limits of that sentence are the whole content of this page.
- median printed entry price, per month
- $2.69
- providers with a verified printed price
- 11
- use cases with measured demand
- 3
Figures on this page come from the VPNCompareHQ price index: 11 providers, median printed entry price $2.69 a month, each quoted from the provider's own page and dated.
- 11 VPN pricing pages verifiedevery figure matched verbatim to the provider's page
- Quoted and dated, never estimatedlast verification pass 2026-09-09
- 3 use cases coveredeach with measured search demand behind it
Printed prices, verified
| Provider | Entry price | Renews at | Prepaid term | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Internet Access | $1.79/mo | $69.81/3yr | 39 mo term | privateinternetaccess.com | September 2026 |
| CyberGhost | $1.99/mo | $51.74/yr | 26 mo term | cyberghostvpn.com | September 2026 |
| PureVPN | $2.15/mo | $47.95/yr | 27 mo term | purevpn.com | September 2026 |
| IPVanish | $2.49/mo | $99.99/yr | 24 mo term | ipvanish.com | September 2026 |
| Surfshark | $2.49/mo | 27 mo term | surfshark.com | September 2026 | |
| hide.me | $2.69/mo | $69.99/26mo | 26 mo term | hide.me | September 2026 |
| ExpressVPN | $2.99/mo | $99.95/yr | 28 mo term | expressvpn.com | September 2026 |
| TunnelBear | $3.33/mo | tunnelbear.com | September 2026 | ||
| NordVPN | $3.49/mo | $139/yr | 27 mo term | nordvpn.com | September 2026 |
| Windscribe | $5.75/mo | 12 mo term | windscribe.com | September 2026 | |
| IVPN | $6/mo | 1 mo term | ivpn.net | September 2026 | |
| Mullvad | No printed price on the page; quote or in-app only (checked September 2026) | ||||
| Proton VPN | Pricing page could not be read (checked September 2026) |
What a UK proxy will and will not do
- It changes the address for that page only. A web proxy covers the page loaded inside it. Your phone apps, your email client, your other browser tabs and the operating system's own connections all continue on your real address.
- It does not encrypt anything usefully. The proxy is the party fetching the page, so it sees the request and anything you type. That makes it wrong for a login, a payment or a bank.
- Streaming will usually fail. Services licensing content by territory maintain lists of proxy and VPN address ranges and refuse them, and video generally loads from domains the proxy is not rewriting anyway.
- A UK-capable VPN costs about the same. At consumer prices a paid proxy and an entry VPN plan are close. The VPN covers the whole device and encrypts it, which is a great deal more product for the money.
The case a proxy genuinely handles
A single UK page that a network abroad is blocking, read on a device where you cannot install anything, with nothing sensitive typed into it. That is real and a proxy is the right size of tool for it.
Everything larger, and particularly anything involving an account you hold, wants the device-level tool with a published policy behind it. That is what the index on this site prices.
What a UK buyer should read on the paid pages
Two things beyond the headline. Whether VAT sits on top: several providers print the price and then note that VAT may apply, and the figures in this index are the pre-tax numbers those pages printed. And the renewal, which on nine of the eleven priced providers is a multiple of the intro.
Every provider in this index sells UK locations on its flagship plan. Whether the entry plan includes them is on the provider's own page, linked beside each figure in the table.
Common questions
- Can a proxy give me a UK IP address?
- For a single page in a single browser, yes. It leaves every other application on your device on your real address.
- Will a UK proxy work for streaming?
- Rarely. Services licensing by territory block proxy address ranges, and video usually loads from domains the proxy does not rewrite.
- Proxy or VPN for UK access?
- At the same money a VPN covers the whole device and encrypts it. Choose a proxy only if you specifically want one page or one application routed.
Not sure which provider you need?
Browse by use case
Cite or embed this figure
The median printed entry price per month in the consumer VPN market was $2.69 in September 2026, across 11 verified provider pricing pages recorded in VPNCompareHQ Consumer VPN Price Index.
Cite as: "VPNCompareHQ Consumer VPN Price Index", updated 2026-09-09, https://vpncomparehq.com/uk-proxy/.