What Surfshark does better than anyone here
Unlimited devices. Not ten, not twelve, no number at all.
That sounds like a marketing line until you try to buy a VPN for a household and discover that the device count is the constraint that actually bites. Two adults with a laptop and a phone each, a tablet, a television and a games console is seven connections before anyone has a guest. Mullvad gives you five. Proton VPN and NordVPN give ten. Surfshark, Private Internet Access and Windscribe stop counting.
Around that sits a wide product: Dynamic MultiHop, a rotating IP, split tunnelling, an ad and cookie blocker, and on the higher tiers an antivirus and a data removal service. App coverage reaches down to Fire TV, which nothing else here lists. It is in the Netherlands, which has no data retention obligation for providers.
Surfshark scores 7.6 under how we rate and sits in the also considered group of our comparison.
The price we cannot tell you, and why
You will notice this page carries no figure. There are two reasons and only one of them is Surfshark's fault.
The first is ours. From where we checked, the Surfshark pricing page renders in the local currency of the country it detects and offers no way to switch. The checkout does the same. We could not read a dollar price, and this site does not publish a conversion it did not read. That is a limitation of our vantage point, and a reader in a dollar region may well see dollars.
The second is not ours. Surfshark publishes no renewal price at all. The checkout says the subscription "will automatically renew every 12 months at the then-applicable renewal price", and nowhere on the pricing page, the checkout or the terms does it say what that renewal price is.
Our whole comparison is anchored on what a VPN costs from the second term onwards, because that is what you pay for as long as you keep it. NordVPN advertises $3.49 and renews at $11.59, and it says so. ExpressVPN prints both numbers on the plan card. Proton VPN prints both on the pricing card.
A vendor that publishes no renewal price cannot be placed on that scale. We could have quoted the introductory rate instead, which is what every competing page does, and it would have made Surfshark look like one of the cheapest options here. We do not know whether it is.
The audit it publishes, and the sibling that does not
The frustrating thing about the pricing opacity is that on disclosure of the thing that actually matters most, Surfshark is better than its own corporate sibling.
Deloitte completed an ISAE 3000 reasonable assurance engagement on the no-logs policy, and Surfshark publishes the report as a public PDF that anyone can download. NordVPN has six such engagements and shows the full report only to logged-in account holders.
So on this page you have one company publishing its audit and hiding its price, and a related company publishing its price and hiding its audit. Neither is the whole picture a buyer needs, and between the two the audit is the harder thing to get, which is why Surfshark scores as well as it does on capability and as poorly as it does on trust.
Who owns what
Surfshark merged with Nord Security in 2022. The two state that they continue to run separate infrastructure and separate product development, and there is no reason to doubt it, but they share a parent.
Set against the rest of the field: two of the seven VPNs in our comparison belong to Kape Technologies, two belong to Nord Security, and Proton VPN, Mullvad and Windscribe are independent of both.
Who should buy it
Buy Surfshark if the device count is your binding constraint and you want a security bundle rather than a VPN alone. It is a genuinely capable product with a published audit and a good jurisdiction, and for a household of eight devices there are three answers on this page.
Buy it with your eyes open about the second year, and set a calendar reminder for the month before your term ends, because you will not find out what it costs until it charges you.
Do not buy it if you want to compare like for like on ongoing cost, because you cannot. Private Internet Access has unlimited devices and exactly the same disclosure problem. If you want unlimited devices and a price you can actually see, Windscribe has both, at $5.75 a month renewing at the same figure.
Plan contents, audit details and the renewal wording on this page were read from the vendor pricing page, checkout and trust centre on .
