Update 11/6/24: This is a great start to 2024’s Black Friday VPN deals coverage. Not only are we getting favorite VPNs like SurfShark and Nord on sale, we’re also seeing extended deals packages, such as the 5-years for $2 plan from PureVPN. While VPNs always go hard on the initial one year, we’re hoping this will shape up to be one of the best years for VPN Black Friday deals.
- IPVanish Essential (2 years) — $53 $180 71% off
- Surfshark One (2 years + 4 bonus months) — $70 $503 86% off
- AdGuard (2 years) — $72 $288 75% off
- NordVPN Plus (27 months) — $105 $405 74% off
- PureVPN Standard (5 years) — $120 $777 85% off
- How to pick a VPN on Black Friday
- How we chose these VPN Black Friday deals
If you’ve been thinking about tightening the security on your computer, you should grab a VPN subscription during early Black Friday deals. Remember that, while Black Friday isn’t officially until November 29, nowadays retailers and services start their deals way early. And besides, VPNs help protect your information, as well as unlock regional content on streaming services, which are all useful now. Try using them with the early Black Friday laptop deal or early Black Friday iPad deal you also scored to make yourself feel safer and more nimble when you use the devices online. To help you out, we’ve pulled a list of the best options available today.
IPVanish Essential (2 years) — $53 $180 71% off
IPVanish’s Essential plan may not come with cloud backup or phone support, but it does give you threat protection and VPN usage on unlimited devices for just $2.19 a month (with this deal) and a 30-day money-back guarantee, making it an extremely affordable plan for anyone.
Surfshark One (2 years + 4 bonus months) — $70 $503 86% off
Our Surfshark review focused on the Surfshark One product, finding that it had incredibly quick speeds, great customer service, and nice dedicated antivirus software to make your browsing even safer. And right now it is just $2.49 per month for two years with a bonus four months, just because.
AdGuard (2 years) — $72 $288 75% off
AdGuard offers a pretty interesting setup that can be accessed completely for free and then upgraded later if you want whole-device protection. As an unusual (but VPN-adjacent) quirk, it even lets you pay in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
NordVPN Plus (27 months) — $105 $405 74% off
NordVPN is probably one of the best-known VPNs out there and is even on our list of best VPNs. The 27-month Plus plan comes with many added benefits besides the VPN, including malware protection, tracker and ad blockers, a password manager, and a data breach detector. At 27 months, it also helps circumvent (at least for awhile) the biggest complaint from our NordVPN review: the subscription price after the first year.
PureVPN Standard (5 years) — $120 $777 85% off
This has to be one of the best deals if you’re just looking for longevity of service. Where VPNs get you is the big cost in the re-up, not the initial sale. Grab this and get 60 months at a rate of $2 per month and forget about VPN hopping for quite some time.
How to pick a VPN on Black Friday
If you don’t care about any specific feature, and just want a VPN to mask your location or add to your privacy, there is basically just one stat for you to look at — contract length.
VPNs often have great deals on their 1-year, 2-year, or even longer plans. And around Black Friday, it can reach over 80% off. The problem? If you forget to cancel you have to pay the original price. So, if you find a decent VPN that has the features you want, getting a long contract with a locked in deal price is a huge win for you. Ultimately, VPNs will only ever cost you a few dollars a month if you plan your deals strategically and always remember to cancel your plan before it renews.
If you do care about extra features, pay attention to common extras like password managers, antivirus protection, and bonus cloud storage and/or backup. These typically don’t add too much to service costs when part of a Black Friday year-long or multi-year deal package.
How we chose these VPN Black Friday deals
We started looking at our reviews — what we like, and what we don’t like. We then head out and find the best deals on these items, so we’re purposefully curating, instead of filling the list with products that just happen to be discounted. We think a smaller, more definitive list is better than a list of a thousand products.
We also include things we haven’t reviewed where it makes sense, doing our research to make sure it’s a quality product. We’re looking at reviews from subject matter experts and on the shopping platforms themselves, and comparing the product to the alternatives. If we think it all checks out, it makes the cut.
Also keep in mind that all prices were accurate at the time of publishing. While we’re checking back and updating this post with the latest deals and prices, we can’t ignore the fact that deals move fast on Black Friday, and it’s possible that an offer may have expired between when you click and when we last hit update.
