ExpressVPN switches to multi-tiered pricing with extra function choices

ExpressVPN has tripled its subscription choices by switching to a tiered pricing construction, efficient right now. The brand new system consists of three ranges of service, the most affordable providing primary VPN service and the others including additional options. Every a type of ranges — Primary, Superior and Professional — will be bought for month-to-month, yearly or two-year durations.

In whole, you’ve got now received 9 completely different choices for subscribing to ExpressVPN. The corporate additionally says legacy plans will stay lively “for now,” and present clients will not be downgraded. The change is much like the strategy already utilized by rivals like NordVPN and Surfshark.

Beforehand, ExpressVPN locked function choices to the period of the plan, so the one solution to get the complete suite of options was to subscribe for twenty-four months. Now, whereas longer-term subscriptions will nonetheless supply reductions, options rely in your stage of subscription as a substitute of how lengthy it lasts.

The brand new tiers roll in some options that had been beforehand a part of ExpressVPN’s Id Defender suite, together with identification monitoring, credit score reviews and information removing companies. New sorts of plans can even bump the variety of allowed simultaneous connections to as excessive as 14. This is what you will get with every tier.

The Primary plan comes with “core VPN performance,” which incorporates the Lightway protocol, the Community Lock kill swap and break up tunneling on Home windows, Android and macOS 10 and beneath. Primary customers can even have entry to the blockers for advertisements and malicious websites, although not the tracker blocker or parental controls. A Primary subscription can be utilized on 10 gadgets directly and can value $12.99 for a month, $74.85 for a yr and $97.72 for 2 years.

The Superior plan raises the gadget restrict to 12 and provides the blockers and parental controls, plus the ExpressVPN Keys password supervisor. It additionally provides you three days of eSIM service and provides the Id Defender options — leak alerts, $1 million of identification theft insurance coverage, information removing and credit score monitoring. As was already the case, these ID safety options can be found solely to customers in america.

An Superior plan will value $13.99 for a month, $89.85 for a yr and $125.72 for 2 years. The one-year and two-year plans are each cheaper than the identical period used to value. Superior subscribers additionally get 5 days of eSIM service and a reduction coupon for between 25 and 50 % off an ExpressVPN Aircove router (it isn’t at present clear how the precise low cost can be decided).

Though Primary and Superior customers will pay additional (between $3.99 and $8.99) for a devoted IP tackle, it comes commonplace on a Professional subscription. Professional customers moreover get month-to-month credit score reviews and information removing, 14 simultaneous connections and an Aircove low cost between 50 and 75 %. A Professional plan prices $19.99 for a month, $134.95 for a yr and $209.72 for 2 years.

What ExpressVPN tiered pricing means for VPN buyers

Finally, I do not assume this new strategy will change a lot in regards to the expertise of utilizing ExpressVPN. It isn’t introducing any new options; I already touched on every part right here in my current ExpressVPN review, so the one distinction is how a lot you will pay to entry the perks.

One of the best information for customers is that ExpressVPN is now accessible for considerably cheaper than earlier than. A two-year Primary plan prices about 30 % lower than a two-year subscription used to — although a one-year primary plan remains to be dearer than a comparable subscription to Proton VPN or Surfshark. I am blissful to say a Primary subscription is about as robust as ExpressVPN has all the time been, solely lacking a couple of peripheral options.

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Replace, September 2025, 4PM ET: This story has been up to date so as to add a press release from an ExpressVPN consultant on the options of the Primary plan.