VPN prices UK: the printed figure, the term behind it and the renewal

Printed prices, verified

How to read the table

1. The entry price is the lowest advertised monthly figure. It is the number the provider leads with, exactly as printed. On this shelf it is nearly always an intro price.
2. The term is what that price requires. In months, as the page states it. Twenty-seven months means a twenty-seven month prepayment, not a rolling monthly plan.
3. The renewal is in the provider's own period. Annual, triennial or per-term, printed as the provider printed it rather than converted to a monthly figure this site invented.
4. An empty cell is a fact, not a gap. Where a provider prints no renewal or no term, the cell says so. Nothing is inferred and nothing is estimated.

What the whole index looks like

Across the 11 providers with a verified printed price, the median entry figure is $2.69 a month. The band runs from the cheapest long-term headline to the most expensive monthly one, and almost the entire spread is explained by how long you are prepaying rather than by what you are getting.

Two providers are in the catalogue without a price and the reason is on the record in each case. Proton VPN renders its prices in the browser and serves placeholders, so nothing could be quoted. Mullvad prints a single flat EUR 5 a month with no term, which puts it outside a USD index rather than missing from one.

UK buyers and the tax line

The figures here are the figures the pages printed, before any tax those pages say may be added. Where a provider notes that VAT may apply, that note is part of the quoted text rather than something this site has folded into the number.

That is deliberate. A price index that silently adds a tax rate is publishing a figure nobody printed, and the whole discipline of this site is that every number on it came from a page you can open and check.

Common questions

How much does a VPN cost in the UK?

The median printed entry price across the providers in this index is $2.69 a month, before tax and on a prepaid term. Monthly plans without a term run considerably higher.

Why are the prices in dollars?

Because that is what these pricing pages print. Converting them would put a figure on this site that no source published, which is exactly what this index exists not to do.

How often are these prices checked?

Every figure carries the date it was read and a hash of the page it came from, and the ingest re-fetches and re-matches each quote when it runs. Consumer VPN sales change the headline every few weeks, so the date beside a figure is part of the figure.

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