I just got an email saying that my price will increase from $42.59 to $49.99 per year, which comes out to 17.37%.
This is a 25.13% increase since 2021 when I paid $39.95.
I’m considering cancelling because I don’t use it enough to justify the continued price hikes.
I went in and tried to cancel and on the next screen they offered two years for the same price as one year.
I forget exactly what I did but I switched to the 3 year plan and it costs me less than $20 per year. I just did this last month. I may have had to cancel my yearly subscription to see the price but I can’t recall.
If you don’t use it enough to justify the “continued price hikes” then definitely look elsewhere! I wouldn’t use something I wasn’t able to justify the cost.
Luckily I’ve been on $29.00 a year since 2016.
They’ll be in Mullvad territory of $60/yr with one more hike.
Port forwarding will be the deciding factor at that point. PIA simply can’t compete otherwise.
As with every price increase, shit, every renewal of a subscription: evaluate whether it’s worth it for you.
That being said, I’ve always gotten the 39mo plan, and after renewing twice it’s been the best value for Linux clients with split tunneling & port forwarding. I’ll assess that myself, again, in a year. Doesn’t look like the 39mo plan is going up, according to my browser.
Moved to Proton VPN. PIA was good though. Used them for several years but pricing went up and had acct issues.
Yeah I am on the $20/yr plan as I buy the 3 yr block and I definitely justify it as I have a container connected to it 24/7/365 so that several of my other containers other internet securely and then i have a browser setup to connect to that container via proxy for secured surfing so my whole rig does not have to sit behind a blasted VPN.
Cheaper to go with the 3 year plan for $84
Awesome tip.
I went into my subscription, selected turn off auto-renewal, selected the cost as reason, and was offered two years for only $56.94 USD… an extra year for only $6.95 USD, and it claims it will renew in two years at the same rate.
This is what I did, too.
They will increase your price when you renew. I’ve had a plan for over a decade and got the price hike email.
Same for me since 2015 at $29. Just got the email that they’re hiking me to $49. Kinda bullshit, they had always said you could keep renewing at that price. Got the email 1 month before renewal.
I was on the 39 plan and it’s no longer available to me, the price was automatically raised for me over the past few years.
Where’s the 39 plan?
How many days/weeks before your renewal did you get the email?
I found it by going to the homepage without logging in. Not sure how to renew it; might only be available to new users or after expiration.
Just in case you haven’t received it yet, and for anyone searching in the future, I received my email today, one month before my renewal. Utterly disgusted.
Your best bet is to buy a new plan and then have chat support merge your older plan into your new plan or vice versa… you can stack multiple memberships this way as well.
Oh yeah, I think I did that once.
