10 of 11 qualify · Updated August 13, 2026
Price pages usually sort by headline rate and stop there, which rewards providers advertising a five-year prepayment. This one applies a floor first: a provider has to clear a minimum overall score before its price is worth quoting. What is left is the cheap end of the acceptable range, with the length of commitment stated next to the rate.
The rule for this page. Providers scoring 55 or above overall, ordered by lowest effective monthly price. The commitment length is shown, because a low rate on a five-year prepayment is a different product.
Answer
$2.03/mo on the 3-year plan. The only provider here whose no-logs claim has been tested by a court rather than only by an auditor — but it is a US company.
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| # | Provider | Deciding fact | Price and refund terms | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Private Internet Access Unpaid | $2.03/mo on the 3-year plan | 9/10 | 73.0 |
| 2 | PureVPN | $2.11/mo on the 2-year plan | 9/10 | 69.0 |
| 3 | CyberGhost Unpaid | $2.19/mo on the 2-year plan | 9/10 | 70.0 |
| 4 | Surfshark Unpaid | $2.49/mo on the 2-year plan | 9/10 | 75.5 |
| 5 | NordVPN | $3.39/mo on the 2-year plan | 8/10 | 84.0 |
| 6 | Proton VPN | $4.49/mo on the 2-year plan | 7/10 | 90.0 |
| 7 | ExpressVPN Unpaid | $4.99/mo on the 2-year plan | 5/10 | 74.0 |
| 8 | Mullvad Unpaid | $5.50/mo on the monthly, no term | 7/10 | 85.5 |
| 9 | Windscribe Unpaid | $5.75/mo on the annual | 6/10 | 67.0 |
| 10 | IVPN Unpaid | $6.00/mo on the standard monthly | 5/10 | 82.5 |
$2.03/mo on the 3-year plan. The only provider here whose no-logs claim has been tested by a court rather than only by an auditor — but it is a US company.
Against it: United States jurisdiction, inside the Five Eyes agreement.
Visit Private Internet Access$2.11/mo on the 2-year plan. Cheap and broadly capable, carrying a documented 2017 logging incident that the current audit arrangement is designed to answer.
Against it: Supplied user logs to the FBI in a 2017 case while advertising a no-logs policy.
Visit PureVPN$2.19/mo on the 2-year plan. The longest refund window in the market attached to a mid-tier privacy posture.
Against it: Owned by Kape Technologies alongside ExpressVPN and Private Internet Access.
Visit CyberGhost$2.49/mo on the 2-year plan. The cheapest credible option per device, weakened by a Nine Eyes jurisdiction and common ownership with NordVPN.
Against it: Netherlands jurisdiction participates in the Nine Eyes agreement.
Visit Surfshark$3.39/mo on the 2-year plan. The most complete all-round package here, provided you accept closed-source clients and a renewal price well above the introductory rate.
Against it: Client applications are closed source and cannot be independently inspected.
Visit NordVPNExcluded providers are named rather than omitted. If one of them is the VPN you already pay for, this tells you exactly which requirement it misses.
| Provider | Why it is not on this list |
|---|---|
| FastestVPN | Overall score of 48.0 is below the quality floor for this page. |