VPN

Surfshark’s one genuinely unmatched feature is unlimited simultaneous connections. I checked every serious competitor this month and the best any of them offers is 14 devices. Most people who buy it install the app on a laptop and a phone and never use the rest. That is two of an unlimited allowance, which means paying […]

I checked the device limit on every serious Surfshark competitor this morning. Not one of them offers unlimited connections. The closest is 14. So if unlimited devices is why you bought Surfshark, this article has a short answer: stay. Nothing below replaces that, and no amount of price difference makes a licence cap disappear. What […]

Over five years, ExpressVPN costs $176.61 more than CyberGhost. Both services encrypt your traffic, both have apps on everything, and neither will feel different on a normal day. So the question is not which is better. It is whether $176.61 buys you something you will actually use, and the honest answer depends on one thing: […]

Both of these services advertise “save 85%” on their two-year plan. Both of them calculate that 85 percent the same way, against a purchase nobody has ever made. And only one of them will tell you what happens when the two years are up. That last sentence is the whole comparison. CyberGhost is cheaper today, […]

Every CyberGhost alternatives article I can find ranks the options by their advertised monthly rate. That ranking is close to useless, because the advertised rate expires and the renewal rate does not. So I went to the checkout page of every serious CyberGhost competitor on the same morning, read the raw markup rather than the […]

Surfshark’s pricing page answers its own FAQ question, “How much does Surfshark cost after 2 years?”, with this sentence: upon renewal, you will be charged the applicable renewal price. That is the shape of an answer with the number removed. Every competitor I checked on the same day prints the renewal figure somewhere on the […]

CyberGhost’s pricing page contains one sentence that I think is the most quietly effective piece of copywriting in the whole VPN industry. It says the plan is billed $51.74 for the first 2 years, then autorenews at $51.74 annually. Nothing in that sentence is false. The dollar figure really does stay the same. What changes […]

ExpressVPN advertises $2.99 a month. That is a 28-month introductory price that renews at $99.95 a year, a 179 percent increase. Every tier, both prices, and how the competition compares.

NordVPN is $3.49 a month. NordLayer starts at $95. Same parent company, completely different products, and buying the wrong one costs a solo store owner $3,420 over three years.

Twingate covers five users free. Tailscale covers six. NordLayer’s cheapest config with a dedicated IP is $95 a month. Seven alternatives compared on what five people actually costs.