TUNNELBEAR PRICING AND FEATURES
TunnelBear is one of the few providers we’ve reviewed
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TunnelBear tier restricts you to only 500MB of data per
month. You can earn more data by Tweeting about the
company, which can raise your limit to a total of 1GB
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limits you to 500MB per day, while the ProtonVPN free
subscription has no data limit.
If you decide to pay for TunnelBear, it won’t break the
bank. You can snag the Unlimited plan for $9.99 per
month. That’s slightly below average $10.21 per month
for a VPN, and the quality of service makes it an even
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$12.99 per month, while Mullvad is a mere $5.54 per
month. TunnelBear also has longer term subscriptions,
starting at $59.88 per year or $120 every three years.
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$71.87 per year.
While TunnelBear is an excellent value, we highly
recommend starting with the company’s free or
monthly plans, so you can test out TunnelBear for
yourself and make sure it will work for you. TunnelBear
limits free users to 500MB of data per month, which is
quite restrictive. ProtonVPN, notably, places no limit on
the data of its free VPN subscriptions.
There is an added cost to that low price tag: TunnelBear
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Choice winners IVPN, NordVPN and ProtonVPN are
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which use a second VPN server for extra security.
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the VPN connection. TunnelBear has none of these.
TunnelBear VPN
PROS Affordable.
Excellent privacy
policies. Annual
independent audits.
Friendly,
approachable design.
Browser extensions,
including stand-alone
ad blocker. Good
speed test results.
Bears.
CONS Lack of
geographic diversity
in server locations.
Few advanced
features.
BOTTOM LINE If
you’re tired of edgy
security products, let
the strong-but-cute
bears of TunnelBear
VPN defend your web
traffic. Easy to use
and easily affordable,
it’s an Editors’ Choice
winner.