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You might think Black Friday is when you'll find the best VPN deals, but you'd be wrong.
ExpressVPN has saved its best-ever discount for a very limited Valentine's Day sale — with a whopping 82% off. You can secure a subscription for just £1.74 per month. That's under 6p a day for military-grade encryption for your web browsing – hiding your internet history from advertisers, cybercriminals, and even your internet provider.
But you'll need to subscribe before February 16, 2026 or miss out.
A single £1.74 subscription brings the award-winning VPN service to up to 10x devices.
And that's not all.
ExpressVPN will bundle an extra four months to your two-year plan at no extra cost, so you won't see another charge from the award-winning VPN brand until June 2028. That certainly makes the £48.80 charge at checkout today for the two-year plan, where you'll find the biggest savings, seem pretty reasonable.
If you want to know how this blockbuster discount on ExpressVPN Basic compares to the competition, NordVPN has launched its own sale, cutting prices from £8.89 to £2.59 per month. CyberGhost has dropped prices from £10.89 to £1.78. The only brand that still competes with ExpressVPN is Surfshark, which offers a subscription for £1.49 per month. But, as noted in our ExpressVPN review, there's no better choice if your priorities are speed and reliability.
VPNs are designed to keep your activity online secure from prying eyes, thanks to the military-grade encryption applied to everything you do. Not only that, but you'll unlock the ability to stream sports fixtures, movies, and TV shows that you wouldn't otherwise be able to access.
ExpressVPN supports Klarna and other payment options if you want to split the cost of the subscription.
Secure ExpressVPN at its lowest ever price
Protect your personal information and encrypt everything you do online for just £1.74 with the latest ExpressVPN deal. That equates to under 6p per day, trouncing NordVPN, its biggest competitor
ExpressVPN adds military-grade encryption across up to 10x devices, including iPhone, Android, Linux, Windows, Mac, Fire TV, and dozens more, to secure your internet traffic from prying eyes, advertisers, and governments. You'll benefit from an extra 4 months free with a two-year plan
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Get 82% off ExpressVPN Basic
$9.99
$1.74
...beating the latest discount from NordVPN
NordVPN is the main competitor to ExpressVPN. Both brands have a substantial collection of awards for fast performance and advanced features. While NordVPN has sometimes had the edge when it comes to subscription price, that changes with the limited-time sale on ExpressVPN
Get 70% off NordVPN Basic
$8.89
$2.59
...and topping this 84% discount on CyberGhost VPN
CyberGhost has cut its monthly subscription by 84%. If you sign up for a 24-month plan, you'll be gifted with 2 months of access to the award-winning VPN service for free. CyberGhost has one of the longest money-back guarantee period with a generous 45 days to decide if you want to stick with your new VPN subscription
Gte 84% off CyberGhost
$10.89
$1.78
Both of these brands boast awards for the wide selection of server locations worldwide, fast speeds when connected via a VPN, dedicated apps for mobile and desktop devices, and much more.
And while NordVPN and ExpressVPN regularly offer discounts across their subscriptions, the former usually offers a lower monthly price for its entry-level VPN plan. But that's all changed.
The combination of the jaw-dropping 82% discount for Valentine's Day and ExpressVPN's decision to overhaul its prices for the first time in 16 years has meant its £1.74 subscription is now cheaper than NordVPN.
ExpressVPN on up to 10 devices, including iPhone, Android, Mac, iPad, Linux computers, Windows 10, Windows 11, Fire TV Stick, and even your Wi-Fi router, to name a few. Running a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on any of these gadgets will apply military-grade encryption to everything you do online, keeping your browsing history under lock-and-key from governments and advertisers.
Even your broadband provider won't be able to keep tabs on the websites you're checking — or how often you're visiting them. Not only that, but ExpressVPN will bundle its Lite Protection package, which blocks adverts and malicious websites on your devices to keep your browsing speedy and safe.
With the latest discount, ExpressVPN costs just £1.74 a month.
Unsure about whether you'll get enough use from a VPN? ExpressVPN includes a quibble-free 30-day guarantee on all of its subscriptions.
With 24/7 customer support, you'll be able to talk to someone from any time zone to get a full refund if you're unhappy with the experience on your devices. Yes, ExpressVPN is that confident.
It comes days after ExpressVPN has started to overhaul its desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Some of these apps are in beta testing, while others are available to download today.
Linux users have been treated to the new features before their counterparts on Mac and Windows | KAPE TECHNOLOGIES To unlock this ludicrous 82% discount, you'll need to subscribe to a two-year plan.
That might sound intimidating, especially if you haven't subscribed to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) before, but ExpressVPN offers a no-quibbles 30 day moneyback guarantee so you can try out every feature on every device before deciding whether to move ahead with the full 24-month contract.
Even better, ExpressVPN will bundle four months of extra access at no cost — so you'll be able to encrypt and secure your connection for 28 months without paying any more than a two-year plan. ExpressVPN uses military-grade AES-256 encryption, the same standard trusted by the US government to guard classified information.
ExpressVPN unveiled the biggest shake-up to its subscriptions in 16 years earlier this summer. It ditched its one-size-fits-all approach, in favour of three price plans: Basic, Advanced, and Pro.
The decision to offer different plans enables this award-winning VPN to be more competitive.
Virtual Private Networks, like ExpressVPN, mask your real location by routing traffic through servers in different countries, tricking services into thinking you're elsewhere
| EXPRESSVPN PRESS OFFICEThe name of this bundle undersells it slightly. Granted, it misses out on the ExpressVPN Keys secure password manager to store, manage, and generate ultra-secure passwords for all your logins, eSIM data when travelling abroad, and exclusive discount on Aircove Wi-Fi router that you'll find with other price plans... but Basic still offers access to the VPN service that earned ExpressVPN its reputation.
For example, Basic subscribers spending under 6 pence a day to access ExpressVPN will still benefit from its core VPN features. That includes the fast Lightway protocols and your choice of over 3,000 servers worldwide, including a dedicated location in every US state.
There's also its top-tier post-quantum encryption — a feature that sets ExpressVPN apart from its competitors.
For those who don't know, as quantum computers become more powerful, these machines will eventually be able to crack encryption algorithms that are currently deemed secure.
Experts estimate that it'd take a current-generation computer around 300 trillion years to break a standard RSA-2048 bit encryption key, while a quantum computer with enough qubits could crack it in a matter of days. That could flip encryption on its head, with systems used by banks and password managers at the moment suddenly penetrable to anyone with a powerful quantum computer in under a week.
By default, ExpressVPN now relies on a supercharged form of encryption that will not be susceptible to these advances. It's part of an update rolled-out to its Lightway encryption system.
Elsewhere, the £1.74 ExpressVPN Basic plan offers protection for 10 devices simultaneously, and there's still the same 30-day money-back guarantee. The company has confirmed DNS-based ad-blocking is coming soon to Basic plans too.
So, what's missing from this most affordable ExpressVPN plan?
You won't enjoy benefits like ExpressVPN Keys password manager, threat protection features, or the Identity Defender suite. The latter boasts four essential products — ID Alerts, ID Theft Insurance, Data Removal, and Credit Scanner — designed to help you block criminals from stealing your identity.
In the United States, ExpressVPN offers a Wi-Fi router that automatically secures every device connected to its network with its end-to-end encryption, which is guaranteed to protect against quantum computers too | EXPRESSVPN PRESS OFFICE In the latest Black Friday sale, ExpressVPN's Advanced subscription costs £2.44 per month. For that, you'll benefit from its Keys password manager, plus three days of unlimited mobile data to use anywhere on the planet via an eSIM plan courtesy of Holiday.com.
The device limit increases to 12 simultaneous connections, plus you'll gain access to identity monitoring with fraud alerts and restoration services – though these ID features only work if you're in the US.
There are also built-in features to block adverts, trackers, malicious sites, and more.
It could be the sweet spot if you want more than ExpressVPN Basic, but don't need all the premium features. If you're already subscribed to a password manager like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane, it could be cheaper to just subscribe to ExpressVPN for its VPN and ability to suggest (and autofill) secure passwords.
Lastly, ExpressVPN Pro is the most expensive — and feature-packed — subscription tier.
Priced at £3.84 per month, this is the only subscription that includes one of ExpressVPN's most requested features – a dedicated IP address that's exclusive to you. You won't have to share it with other VPN users, and it's so private that even ExpressVPN can’t trace it back to you.
This was previously an optional add-on for ExpressVPN subscribers, so it's interesting to see the much-loved feature included as part of a monthly subscription... even if it happens to be the priciest one.
You'll get everything included with the more affordable tiers, plus 5 days of eSIM data, monthly credit reports, and data removal services for US users.
The device limit increases to 14, and you'll receive up to 75% off Aircove routers, which run ExpressVPN software so that every device connected to Wi-Fi is secured via VPN.
It's worth noting that if you're outside the US, you won't benefit from these Identity Defender features, making this tier less appealing for international users.
Whether you're looking for a cheaper ExpressVPN plan, or you're currently paying an additional fee for access to a dedicated IP address and can now fold it into your subscription, this shake-up will impact users on every price plan.
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