Yearly fee now $49.99!
Hi u/jhedfors, thank you for sharing this with the community. Please understand that updating our price is necessary to maintain and enhance the quality of our service. The cost of providing what we believe to be the world’s best VPN service has continued to rise and the adjustment is a necessary investment to stay ahead of emerging threats and deliver the best service you deserve.
Additionally, we’re pleased to share some recently introduced improvements to enhance your overall experience:
- Unlimited simultaneous device connections - a benefit not offered by many other providers
- High speed servers in over 90 countries - as well as continuing to offer server locations in all 50 US states.
- As an additional benefit, we’re also now offering 500GB of free cloud storage on pCloud for those who successfully renewed plans (1 month plan excluded).
We will continue to improve our product in 2024 and beyond and have some new and exciting additions coming later this year - including a dedicated tvOS app and improvements across all our platforms.
Lastly, I did notice that several community members commented about possibly wanting or will be canceling your PIA subscription. Please know that - Yes. You can cancel your accounts auto-renewal at any time, by logging into your CCP. We recognize that the updated pricing may not align with your expectations.
Please know that your account will remain active for the time you have already paid for. It will then terminate at the end of an 11-day grace period following the due date instead of renewing. Please note that this does not process a refund. Refunds are only processed by request and must meet our 30-day refund policy.
No big deal, just cancel and renew each year at the newcomer rate. Lmao
it was bound to happen
Just got this email as well, unfortunate to see. Even though it’s just an extra 10$ I see it as testing the waters for greater and more regular increases. I think I’ll take another look at other vpn providers before my subscription renews to see if there are better options out there.
Fix your darn Mac app please. Once or twice a week it’ll be stuck in a connecting or disconnecting loop and cause the MacBook to lose internet connection. Killing or restarting your app doesn’t help. Only fixes if I restart the MacBook. Latest version of your app and Mac OS M1 Pro. Ongoing for months.
Guess I am glad I did a 3 yr deal and cancelled any auto renew. I seem to have a number of problems with it and won’t be using it after the 3 yrs.
I was on a $29 per year plan and I had been previously promised my price was grandfathered in and would remain as long as I did not let my subscription lapse, so this was an unfortunate email.
Thankfully a rep was able to send me an offer on a new ‘2 year + 4 month’ sub for $56 that I took because I felt too lazy to switch my software over and set up my tunneling again, but it will likely be the last time I renew as I don’t like how they were saying to me “We’re forced to raise prices so it’s not unfair to our new customers.” as if they don’t offer exclusive deals to new customers.
I’m glad I just renewed for 3 years. I’m good till 2027, and got the extra storage.
Any word on price increase for the three year plan? I think I paid $79.00 USD. It renews in September 2024.
Just snag it on Black Friday or cyber Monday. I got 2.5 years for $58 
I prefer to renew things in 3 year increments, and I had just done so with PIA. As long as they still give some kind of discount for multi-year renewals, I’ll stick around.
Scroll down. This is at least SOMETHING:
New benefits available to you:
As part of our commitment to keep enhancing your online security experience, we’re excited to offer you 500GB of free cloud storage with your subscription. This additional benefit is at no extra charge and is effective on your next successful renewal.
I think it’s a reasonable price hike for those of us who find it to be a good service. It’s not a scam or a marketing trick to raise your price transparently, it’s just…raising the price. If you can find an equally good service for less, go for it. That’s how this works. I’ve found PIA to reliable and safe. The cloud storage is not “worth” the price hike, but it’s a show of good faith to offer something of value. I mean, they were gonna raise the price regardless.
Those of you who have persistent app bugs – well, no price is cheap enough for you to keep an app that doesn’t work, right? So it sounds like this isn’t the right product for you no matter what. I can’t believe you would want to pay even $5.99/year for an app you can’t use reliably.
Who is next best VPN.
Any alternatives you guys like that is still cheap + has port forwarding? Prob will change after my 3yr runs out
Have not received the mail, i have an old 2 year plan and still 56Euro.
Like to have 2 years in case i want to stop it.
Just cancelled my auto renew after receiving the email. I don’t use it enough to justify that kind of price increase. It’s also much worse as the exchange rate has made it higher where I live. That’s not PIA’s fault, but the timing couldn’t have been worse for their increase. I will be switching to another provider.
It’s fine. They’ve been a good service and $50/yr is not bad at all. Especially when it’s just $10 more.
I just renewed for 3 years at $79 it gave me a new account unfortunately and I still had about 100+ days on my expiring account but it was still a good deal I think.