Surfshark pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Surfshark (surfshark.com) is a VPN service. Three plans (Starter, One, One+) sold on 1-month, 12-month and 24-month terms, with steep intro discounts on the longer terms; dedicated IP is a paid add-on.. No free plan.
What Surfshark costs
- 5 devices: $16.45/mo (Starter month-to-month $16.45 (US/USD plan data embedded in surfshark.com/pricing, 2026-10-17). Unlimited simultaneous devices.)
- 10 devices: $16.45/mo (Starter covers unlimited simultaneous devices, so 10 devices = $16.45/mo.)
- Dedicated IP: no public price (Dedicated IP add-on (20 locations) is sold from the account page; no public price found, so left null.)
Plan compared: Starter, 1-month billing. Prices are USD per month at the regular month-to-month rate (no first-term promos or multi-year deals, which are often far cheaper), for the cheapest plan with unlimited data and the full server network. The headline is one person on 5 devices at once; the other figures are 10 simultaneous devices and 5 devices plus a dedicated US IP address.
Surfshark price hikes
No price hikes on record for Surfshark.
Cheaper alternatives to Surfshark
At 5 devices, Surfshark costs $16.45/mo. 3 VPN services cost less:
- Proton VPN: $9.99/mo (VPN Plus (1-month billing))
- ExpressVPN: $14.99/mo (Basic, 1-month billing)
- NordVPN: $14.99/mo (Basic, 1-month plan)
Surfshark alternatives: 3 cheaper VPN services compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: surfshark.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Current prices read from the US/USD plan data embedded in surfshark.com/pricing (1-, 12- and 24-month terms; renewals after 12/24-month terms are $79/$99/$119 per year). PricingSaaS logs frequent up-and-down moves in the 24-month intro prices during 2024-2026 (e.g. June 2026 Starter $1.99 to $2.49). These are promotional deal swings, not month-to-month hikes, so none are recorded as changes; month-to-month price history could not be verified.