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Surfshark One leads on raw price at $2.79 a month for a two-year plan, with unlimited simultaneous device connections — a genuine differentiator in a category that typically caps you at 10. NordVPN Complete comes in at $4.49 a month for 27 months, bundling a password manager, ad blocker, dark web monitor, and 1 TB of encrypted cloud storage, though renewal jumps to $219.48 a year. ProtonVPN's Plus plan matches ExpressVPN's promotional price at $2.99 a month, with a renewal rate locked at $83.88 annually — a notably transparent offer for a service that leans heavily on its Swiss privacy credentials and open-source audits. Norton trails the field at 54% off and $4.17 a month, but counters with the only 60-day money-back window on the list.\n\nRenewal pricing is where most of these deals quietly fall apart — but not uniformly. ExpressVPN Advanced is the partial exception: its promotional price of $83.72 for two years (down from $475.72) comes with a locked renewal rate of $119.95 every two years, which is a genuine hedge against sticker shock at renewal. The catch is that ExpressVPN's deal drops the standard 30-day money-back guarantee entirely, so there's no easy exit if the service disappoints. That trade-off — price certainty in exchange for refund protection — is worth weighing against ProtonVPN, which keeps the 30-day guarantee and still locks in a favorable renewal rate.\n\nThe broader pattern here is familiar: VPN companies treat Amazon's shopping event as a customer acquisition window, front-loading value on year one to secure multi-year commitments. 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